Hello, my flock has a chicken that we don't know if it is waterbelly or eggbound. My question is, is that do chickens lay while having waterbelly? thanks.
Also, I know my grammar isn't exactly up to par on those sentences, I'm just in a rush.
I give mine seeds and worms at around 2 months old. I have 15 birds and they lay around a dozen each day.I don't see any health problems. Most of them are going on their 3rd year. :fl. Hope this helps
I have similar experiences all the time. Greeting new chicks into the older ones yard is easier than you'd think. I have a Plan "A" and a Plan "B" lol . Plan "A", is just supervising the new chicken around the old chicken for about an hour every 2 - 3 hours. Usually, in the next 5 days or so...
If you bought/hatched chicks with it ; compare its feathers to other chicks its age. If it has less feathers it may be a rooster. Another sign would be bigger legs, and bigger combs that are more red than the average chick. Lastly, a cockerel may have pointy feathers near its "mane" or neck...
In Two of my chickens, Kentucky and Aretha, they seem to always make the brooding sound, even when they're not broody. Kentucky has been one of our most broody birds, so she may have become accustomed to that sound, but Aretha has never been broody. When I try to pet or pick Aretha up she makes...
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Completely different than the one above me, although I think mine may be correct.
In the bay area, where I live, we just got our first break from 100+ degrees of weather every single day. On Wednesday, the 22nd, It's going to return back to 100 for about a week, what can I do to help my chickens not die of heat stroke, like 2 already have.?
Almost exact same thing happened to us and our 4 month old chick. our heating lamp was unstable and sitting on a ledge, our dog hit the box hard and the lamp fell on her. She was shaking and twitching and then all the sudden she stopped moving. Our children had to go to school and I had to work...