I purchased some food grade DE at Tractor Supply, and I have been spreading it around our chicken run, but it isn't helping the fly problem at all. There must be hundreds of flies out there. I have started putting it in the chickens food also. Our run is just dirt,and we usually keep straw or...
My baby chick hatched yesterday. Ever since then all she has done is flop around the cage on her back. If I put her on her stomach she flings herself around until she is on her back again, and then just lays there. We had one other chick hatch a few hours ago and it is already running around the...
Right now she is just flopping around on her back and cheeping. I didnt know if this was normal or not, this is our first time hatching! It concerns me that when I flip her onto her stomach she goes right back to her back.
Our first chick hatched today. It has been about 6 hours and he is not fluffy, but hes not wet either. Its like all his feathers dried in clumps. He is flopping around on his back, and when I turn him over onto his feet/stomach, he just flops right back onto his back. Is this normal? Is there...