I have a broody girl on a clutch of eggs. She will eat an egg (Gross, hoping she is doing it cause it isn't viable) and it is sticky and stinky under her and on all the other eggs. Leave it be or clean it out? The bugs are awful around her with this mess.
She is separated from the flock and I...
I was messing with it and a small hole broke open. There was a separate yolk sac with a white string attached to that on one end and a clump on the other. I am wondering if it was fertilize and it has been hotter than hell here. I do have a very active rooster.
These are all eggs from my babies that just started laying this week. The top is 2 normal little eggs and the bottom IS NOT A BROKEN yolk. It came right from the shell like this. It is large and misshaped and seems to has white swirls in the yolk. There is only a small amount of the normal clear...
No stress, my chickens have it made. They did come from a feed store so who knows.....They seem ok. I am trying to figure out who did it but with everyone laying it's hard to figure out LOL!
I had all 11 of my chickens lay eggs within 24 hours and yet overnight they layed 2 soft shells within that same 24 hours. I get a few soft shells here and there and never concerned cause my babies are only 6 and 7 months old and almost all my eggs are hard as rocks. How the heck does that...
So is keeping her penned up an option? To figure out if she is actually laying and I just can't find them.
And to confirm, if she's not acting sick or weird, she's ok? This is my biggest concern since this is my daughter's chicken.
All the sudden my Buff stopped laying. She is about 7 months and was laying very consistently until last week in the nesting box. Everyone else is laying just fine. She is not acting strange or sick. Should I be concerned? Should I quarantine her to see if she is laying and possibly she has been...
Just thought I would give an update. She made it through three night and is eating a drinking and walking just fine. The wound is huge though and praying infection stays away. She is quarantined in a cage with rags for bedding and I check other a lot to change any poo poo messes. Every morning I...
I have a flock of now 9 13 week old and 7 7 week old. Something started picking my chickens off one by one starting with 2 of the smaller and then 1 of the bigger. That one left a trail into the woods and I searched to see what it was and I guess I spooked the bobcat out as it left the wood and...
I tried putting another chick with her. They are not having it. I can't tell if she is just figuring out to get around or it's actually getting better. My gut is telling me to keep her separate and brace it. Every time I put her back with the rest she just gets pushed around and she just hobbles...
This is actually an improvement over the last day. And even a bit since I braced to her other leg. So maybe just keep taking her out to feed and water and put her back with her sisters w no brace? Or brace and separate. Her toes will curl around my finger ok with no issue. And no crying when I...