Recent content by m35a2siek

Thank you for the feedback. I feel much better knowing that those are eggs and not some weird growth. I have butchered many chickens and have never seen this.

I found this in the innards, the bird appeared healthy prior to preparing him for the freezer. I don’t know what it is or know if it’s a sign of disease. Any advice would be appreciated. Two of the Turkeys has this so far. They are white broad breasted about 30lbs.

Thank you for the information.

I recently moved to Virginia. I had to thin the flock out a little due to city ordinance. I now only have 6 hens. I placed a game camera out to see what kind of predators attempted a try at the chickens before let them free range. The only thing I got on camera was this hawk. Does this hawk pose...

I am having the same problem with one of my 2 day old chickens. It's a clear and white discharge. This same bird also could not walk for about 24 hours. Now it is getting around a little better but the discharge is very concerning. Please help.

Yes, my question was about the black toes. They look scabbed over, and missing a claw on one of them.

Is this normal? If not please let me know if I can do anything to help out. This chick hatched about 2 hours ago.

Three have hatched, one is dragging around what I think is a dried up yolk sac? One looks great. And the other has a lot of black on both feet. I will try to get a pic to show the one with the black feet.

Hello everyone, this is my first hatch. I am using a home made incubator. I got up this morning and before heading to work, checked out the incubator, and 2 chicks have pipped and others are rocking. Very excited. They seem to be early though, I set the eggs on the 16th of last month, and wasn't...

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Hello, I am new to the forum, I adopted a free Rooster, now my eggs are fertile!! I made a home made incubator, and set 24 eggs 7 days ago. My original chickens I bought from TSC last spring, they have been great egg layers, but of the 12 I raised, I only have 4 of the original remaining due to...

It's kinda sad, but I don't even know what breed my chickens are. I think they are RI Reds. Not sure what the white ones are. I also don't know what breed my Roo is. Maybe someone can help me out. I will post a pic. I do know that the eggs are fertile, and they are developing nicely. They are...

Just to give everyone a heads up, I went into TSC in Plymouth NH today to pick up some cat litter for my new Barn Cat, and everything was set up for their "Chick Days". They stated that they will be getting there first shipment early next week. I inquired on what breeds they will have, but they...

Just to keep everyone updated on my experimental incubator using a fish tank thermostat, I wanted to make sure it was holding +/- .5 degrees before I stocked it with eggs. Now it's doing it's job. currently on day 7, and all of the eggs look good when candling. I am using 3 thermometers to...

Thank you for all of the welcomes. I will keep everyone updated on the progress of my first run in the homemade incubator.