Recent content by irradiatedsnakes

Noted, thanks. So, vaccines can only be given to chickens ages 8weeks-~20 weeks or so? I've seen references to giving adult chickens vaccines, but found no listings for vaccines not in this timeframe. Thanks for the info.

I should've clarified better, the birds were separated by age group, not because of pox. & Good to know, thank you.

Hi all, it appears a few of my chickens have contracted fowl pox- Toad here has it the worst, while the rooster and at least one other hen have a couple of the bumps on their combs/wattles. We have two groups of birds, the group with the affected birds is a few years old and the others are less...

thank you for the advice, all! all but one of the eggs has pipped, now, so i think we're in the clear (that last one appears to be not moving, so it is a probable discard).

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/newly-hatched-white-stuff-on-buns.782580/ could this be a similar/the same issue?

Hi! We're currently in the midst of day 21 of a clutch of eggs secretly laid and incubated by one of our hens, that are now in our incubator (while she tends to her 3 already-hatched chicks). 5 out of 8 eggs right now have pipped! However, I just had to discard #9 because it was leaking that...

If it helps anyone, this is the dad (since it seems the polydactyly is coming from him, because chicks of different moms all have extra toes). He doesn’t have extra toes, but he DOES have multiple spurs on each leg, if those genes could be related.

Here's some of the babythings. they all have extra toes like that. Upon closer inspection, it looks like there's a few half-orpingtons, and one half-jersey. These would have been laid weeks ago obviously and that was when we had a breach in the fence that hens were going in and out of, so it...

Ahh, i was afraid of that- it totally makes sense, but the place they are right now is really not safe, but my only other option i can think of is moving them in with the flock...would they be at all in danger of getting attacked by the other hens, or even the roo (even though they are his...

She would have had to travel pretty dang far, our nearest neighbor with chickens is half a mile away (and i don't even think they have polydactyl birds). Our chickens escape the run every now and then, but i've never seen them go anywhere near that far.

Nope, none! I'll add pictures as soon as I'm able- probably sometime tomorrow. Thank you both for the replies!

Hello all! A hen of ours, a blue jersey giant named John Doe, escaped a few weeks ago and disappeared. We assumed she was dead, but just hours ago, I found her and her apparent girlfriend, a black-breasted red cubalaya named Raphaella who's been acting weird the last week, under the chicken coop...

Had a surprise when a blue jersey giant hen of ours who, for the last few weeks, we thought was dead turned up hiding with 4 happy day-old chicks! I'm posting a general help/advice post about this event in the raising chickens forum, but here I have a genetics question. The parents are a...

Glad to hear your girl made it out alright! I think I'm probably considering fatty liver hemorrhage as my top suspect now- given the huge amount of fat, and the couple bloody clots I did find around the chest cavity, and how quickly this onset from lethargy to death in a matter of less than a...

I was worried someone would say that, but yeah. the only abnormalities I saw with regards to egg-related stuff was the egg I already mentioned, plus this yolk next to all the others had something wrapped around it (near the bottom there, you can see it being pinched hard), and looks really odd...