HELP! This is my first time incubating eggs, well long story short I tried to have a humidity thermometer in there with them and the egg turner knocked it over it jammed up and the lid popped off sometime in the night, the eggs still felt warmer than room temperature and this was within the...
He is also in little too no pain with it, he was grazing and walking fine, He bedded down with the sun and seems ok. I think I’m more upset about it than he is.
I am new to banding and we banded our two 10.5 week old bucklings last week, made sure both where in there, and not to high, below the Little boy nipples, cleaned and sanitized the area, bands and tools.
everything was fine 2 hours ago, they where rearing and head butting, running and jumping...
He is both and that is definitely my fear!
I have been doing that for 3 weeks now, I’m on the verge of letting them out together, my main concern is that he will roughly mount my 10 week pullets and hurt them. He Chases the hens grabs them by the head feathers/comb and holds them down till he...
My rooster is not very gentle with his ladies and I plan on culling him after the 10 week newbies are old enough to do them all at once, my question is do I need to worry about him hurting the new girls that are only 10 weeks when I integrate them into my flock? Should I cull him first since...
Should all chicks be dosed as preventative measure? I Quarantined the sick one as soon as I recognize that it wasn’t acting right. Just wondering if y’all can advise me on this. Ty
So I just got 3 of these beautiful birds, they are about 2 weeks old and 2 are darker then the other, was wondering if that might be an indication of what gender they may be? Do you possibly know if this is a tell for them?