week 1

I don’t know why I’m so proud of this video, but I sing it to S whenever I socialize them. I try and socialize the birds every day so they grow up un afraid of humans.

I’m back after a minute, and I don’t know what my old username even was, so here’s a new me. I found this forum around 2008, and get chickens back then when I lived in Eagle River, Alaska. I live in Oregon now, in Tanasbourne. My favorite thing about chickens is hatching them and watching how...

4 day old Pekin duckling. Does anyone know what this is??

I brought home 10 chicks on Saturday. They hatched the Wednesday before. They were vaccinated for meraks and coccidiosis. They are on Poultry grain chick starter. On Monday I noticed one EE chick standing with eyes closed. I started probiotics and electrolytes in a separate dish and hand fed...

I am hatching chicks and one of them came out of the egg wrong (idk why I will not explain further) and so it's leg is bent out to the side. It can't walk so it can't get the water and food it needs. The chick is less than a week old how should I help it?

I hatched out some ducklings and they will go to their outdoor coop in a couple of weeks. It is already built (we built it a couple of years ago for rabbits, but are modifying it for my ducks) and we need to make it a tad bigger. My question is... do they need a run (closed off area on the...

Hello all! I am a first time chicken tender. We got our day old chicks last Wednesday (they shipped Monday). We got 6 but 2 died in shipping so only have 4 now. So they are a week old now. I have one that came with her umbilical cord still on...she was a little more lethargic then the others too...

Hello! I just got my first chicks this week. I had one chick a couple days ago that didn’t make it.(out of 10) She was considerably smaller than the others, I noticed her wings were droopy and she stayed in one corner most of the time. She was eating and drinking but acting very weak. This...

Hey everyone! So after a little bit of a rough start, my little flock of 7 is doing fantastic! Yesterday, I decided to try to get some cute pictures of them and got this gem! I hope it will brighten your day! I’m not sure what kind of bantam they are, but I was thinking silkie as their skin is...

:loveTwo of my chicks are always together