Recent content by Branch Chickens

@hiltonizer Do you have plans for any other orders this year? We're looking to get six or so mixed bantams to add to our flock, but we don't really have room for the fifteen minimum order. I'm in China/Palermo.

Hello everyone. I've disappeared from here for a million years, but have returned for a question. Does anyone in the central Maine area raise bantams and might possibly have some (or fertile eggs) for sale this spring? My middle son has developed an interest in them, and we have some extra room...

Any further update? I have a hen who is doing the same thing this morning. Tiny bit of sneezing. No other symptoms.

Do you have any further update on treatment? We're up in Maine and have been struggling with a mysterious and similar problem for a year now, and now I believe I've found a trematode/fluke inside at least one egg. We have also lost a couple of hens with symptoms very similar to yours.

I have asked this question in several locations now (locally), but I thought I would try my hand here. The eggs from my layers (some 2 years old, some 1 year old) have a ridiculously high percentage of blood spots or meat spots in them. Nearly every egg. Most of these are small. These girls are...

My hens are the same age, and I just noticed the same issue. What is your water situation? We use an older farm well to water them, and that is the only thing that is different from my mom's chickens across the road. Her eggs don't have the issue.

Any update on this?

Single comb. Is supposed to be the rare mystery chick.

Buff Orpington, maybe? It's hard to tell with the wings and sides covered.

Two and a half weeks old. Slate colored legs. Yellowish white fuzz at two days old, feathering out very white. I think it's a roo. Maybe an Andalusian?

Bump

There's a chance she/he could have eaten something that is blocking it.

One of our week old chicks has a spongy, full crop. Not hard. Like a balloon of water. Is there anything I can do to help it? She looks lethargic, and I have a feeling she won't make it if I don't do something this morning.

Thank you for the advice!

Yesterday morning I woke up to find our Cochin hen still in her "nest" in the corner of the coop, sitting on her one lonely (unfertilized) egg, showing signs of broodiness. I called my aunt, who has fertile eggs in her coop, and she brought me five to put under Pinga. Because her location in the...