Recent content by Chollister6

That’s what I was thinking too but I thought if it was caused by that he wouldn’t have even made it through the night

Hello chicken family! I’ve been raising chickens for 2 1/2 years and this is the first time we have lost a bird that wasn’t to a predator. So I’m wanting to learn from this experience and figure out what happened. So yesterday we had some friends over. One of my friends have kids that are...

He ordered a bunch of eggs from someone online. But we can’t find her post about what breed they were. However, we know she didn’t list any game breeds. They were all brown eggs.

My husband and I hatched these babies 19 weeks ago. We know 1 is a rooster. But what breed is he? We don’t know breed or gender in 2 or 3. Let us know your opinions!

Hello! We have an aggressive rooster we are planning to process. However I have a 5 year old son and 3 year old twin boys and idk how to approach this with them. They hate This rooster because he has attempted to attack all of them. I don’t want them to grow up and think we kill things that we...

Its completely normal. You can see him moving just let him work at it. It is totally exhausting breaking out of an egg.

Yeah my husband wants to eat them. We have 4 more babies that we hatched ourselves we are think 2 are boys and 2 are girls so the boys better behave themselves because the naughtiest one will get to go to freezer camp. So if this one is a boy and 2 I’d the babies are boys we will have 3 boys and...

We can have them in our area. But I don't really want one. I have a 5 year old son and 3 year old twin boys. BUT but my husband wants a rooster so we can just incubate our own eggs.

Oh that makes a lot of sense. I guess I have a lot to learn about roosters lol.

That’s what i was thinking but I don’t have an experience with roosters. I also thought it was odd because he constantly fights with one of my australorps. And she doesn’t seem to be a roo in any way.

I think my pullet turned roo what do you guys think? He’s about 15 weeks. The other chickens around him are the same agebut different breeds. Well I do have a barred rock you can see a tiny bit of but she’s a year old.

Hi chicken friends! This is my first time incubating eggs. I got 19 chicken eggs. At day 18 when we began lockdown we discarded 6 that were obvious duds. Day 22 and 23 we welcomed 4 babies. Being my first time I was ok we only got 4. The end of day 24 I candelled and had a hard time deciding to...

Yes same hen. And that’s kind of what I was thinking but she’s still contracting and the egg seems to be moving up. Unfortunately I’m in California where we are quarantined for the Newcastle virus so I can’t take her to a vet and I have called every vet on my area and no one will call me back or...

I have what I thought was an egg bound hen. I brought her in bathed her, gave her calcium, lubed her up. I did this everyday. After day 2 she perked up, got her spunk back but still no egg. I can feel it I know it’s there. I can see her contracting. She is 10 months old and laying. She is...

So today she isn’t as lethargic. She is drinking. No egg has passed but I can feel it from the outside like below her vent like her “fluff butt” area. I have her inside by herself in a tote. I offered crushed egg shells and scrambled eggs but she hasn’t touched it. She is able to poop at least a...