So I have hatched before, but I guess I'm being a worry wart.
I'm staggering 32 Silkie eggs currently. First batch of 7 was set March 27th, and should pip by the 17th. The second set will pip on the 22nd. 3rd set on May 3rd.
I've done staggering before, and its gone well (I only had one quitter...
I have some Golden Wyandottes and one of them is sick.
She is just over a year old
She is the only affected bird in the coop
Bedding is pine shavings and yard clippings
I have her isolated
They mainly eat Dumor layer pellets, with some grain scratch thrown into their yard sometimes.
This...
Hello - we rescued 4 commercial barn hens 3 weeks ago (our first ever).
1 has been bullied badly (ironic as she is the largest, with most feathers - but is also the most timid and very sweet) and we have had to intervene a couple of times.
The last 2 nights we’ve gone to lock them in the coop...
So I have just begun raising pigeons and it has been a year, everything was going fine, but yesterday I had a pigeon suddenly die, for a while it was staggering and looked weak so I took it in but I noticed little bugs on it, they looked like flies, and I didn't know what to do or what they...
We have a very small flock of five chickens - two barred rocks, two light sussexes, and one black sex link. About two weeks ago, the black sex link was hit by a car and died. Since that time, the two barred rock hens have gotten patchy, and we figured that the stress of losing a member of the...
Can someone advice me: I noticed that four of my turkey developed a type of staggering sickness, they eat
and drink well but the staggering syndrome is troubling me, please what medication can be used to make them normal?
Hello,
Our girl, Lacey is a 18mo old welsummer. Started molting abound a year old when we brought home two new chicks and she went broody. We bathed her cold water daily to break her broody behavior; good thing it was summer. Fast forward to September and i notice our boss hen (Barred Rock)...
I just got my 8 hens last fall 3 pullets just started laying this summer. I get white/brown/green/blueish eggs but production has gone way down from 4-6@day to 1-3@day. My small old English blue is brooding but doesn't even lay. 2are molting. My main concern is for my New Hampshire red. She's...