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We had a large Orpington that was running around playing yesterday and was found dead this morning in the coop. She was just sitting there still warm but dead. My husband goes out in the early mornings and said she had something clear running out her mouth. She was fine yesterday and last...

I'm hoping someone can help, bur my Orpington (about 4 months old) has started wobbling on his feet and seems to be stepping on his own feet. He is also off balance and his toes kind of turn up and shake a little. He just started this and we have no idea what it could be caused by. He is...

Hi All, I have 4 Rhode Island Red roo's. August 20th they will be 4 months old. I am wondering at what age they will be able to mate to my females. They are not crowing yet, and at times seem frightened of the older hens. Does anyone have any info on when they will crow and start to mate...

Is there anyone in Louisiana that breeds pure breed poultry? Would like to get quality fertile eggs not to far away.

I have a chick that was born this morning and he had a long bloody umbilical cord with yolk at the site of the navel. It just keeps coming back out and I can tell it's yolk. Never seen this. I put some corn starch on it to stop it. Can someone tell me what to do? Is the baby going to die...

I don't know what I was thinking. I started my lockdown to early. The chicks are due this Sunday 4/25. I started last night around 10:00. Does anyone know if raising the humidity to early will kill my chicks or harm them? Thanks

I am hoping someone will have an answer for me because i am just sick. Spent the weekend waiting on some little silkies to hatch and every last one of them that survived were helped out because they lay pipped for 12-24 hours and made no progress at all They were sticking to the membrane. The...

Hi all, I could use some help with my little 3 week old Rhode Island Red chick. He/she is constantly shaking it's head. I noticed it last nite while spending some time with them. He is the only one doing it, there are five i hatched out myself and they have been isolated in a clear sterlite...

Does anyone know if baby chicks should be vaccinated? I have started hatching little silkies and have some a week or so old. Today I stopped at the feed store and they had day old silkies. I couldn't resist, they had black ones and grey ones...anyway i ended up getting four. I have separated...

Hi everyone, I hope someone can help with this little baby. He was born with the yolk sack out on Sunday evening. He was due to hatch on the 26th and didn't pip till Sunday sometime. When he finally hatched some of the yolk was still present so i took the advice of some of the members and...

I put in a new clutch of really expensive eggs a few days ago in my brinsea mini. Today, i took the temp with my husbands extech temp and humidity alert indicator. It read 102. Now what? I also stuck the probe into my octagon 20 which read 99.6 and the extech read 99.5 so the extech is...

Hi Everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me. I have 7 rhode island red eggs in my brinsea mini advance. We are on day 8 and the air sack is not visable. I took the humidity reading last night and it is in the sixty percent range. I am not sure how to get the humidity down. Don't know if...

Hi everyone! I am trying to hatch my first eggs in the brinsea mini advanced incubator, it holds 7 eggs. We got it all started up on Sunday afternoon and everything seems to be going okay, but was just reading over the cooling down option and realized the instructions said they recommended...