I have a home bred leghorn pullet like this, she hatched yellow and feathered out white, but this past week or so (she's about 12 weeks old now) she's developed a brown breast, bigger patch of brown than yours but same sort of colour. So I'm trying to fingure out what the heck is going on too...
I'm having the same issue - 25 years raising poultry and this is my first experience with cocci. The sick birds are a batch of 13 chicks I hatched in an incubator from my own birds eggs. the incubator was thoroughly disinfected with incubator sanitiser, as were the eggs before setting. Chicks...
Hi, I've got the same issue - a decent first hatch, but they were goslings and really messed up the incubator during the hatch, including the evaporation block. I couldn't get it clean and fresh, so did the best I could and reused it. Second hatch was a mix of duck and chicken eggs, most of the...
Hi, I'm Jo from Scotland, I keep a mixture of poultry including Wheaten and Black copper maraans, various colour Leghorns, White stars, Araucanas, Cream legbars, a few olive eggers, Cayuga ducks, Runner ducks, Khaki Campbell and German Pekin ducks, as well as Shetland and Sebastapol geese, and a...
I have Shetlands, I'm in Scotland where there are a few more around - still very rare though. They're difficult to breed; I set about 20 eggs last year (2021), 6 that I picked up from a breeder an hour away and the rest from my own geese, most were fertile and developed, but only one hatched and...