Okay, so after doing some reading, I definitely think it is some sort of mite. I have a few chickens that have saddle feather loss, the one with the eye issue is one of them. I didn't think it was related and assumed it was from over mating and separated the roosters a few weeks ago, but it...
I found one of my hens today has one of her eyes closed and there were two tiny white bugs on the lid crawling around. I checked the rest of her body and my other chickens and didn't see any more of the bugs. Is this an eye injury or bug related and what should I do for her? Thank you!
1) she's...
Not sure if this the right forum or not, but I want to make sure I learn from this experience. I incubated quail eggs and on the day they hatched we had a power outage. The power ended up being out for roughly 8 hours in total. During that time, the clear plastic on the incubator ended up...
What is going on with his toes? He was hatched the day before yesterday and keeps falling over and getting stuck on his back. He almost drowned in the water because he fell in it twice.
Of the 4 hatched, 3 made it through the day today, but the one that didn't make it was extremely small and kept getting stuck on his back. The two other eggs didn't hatch. One of the eggs had pipped, but didn't make it out. So I have 3 adorable tiny quail 😍
Help! My quail started hatching today, I have 4 hatched, 2 still in eggs. We got hit with storms and lost power. The power has been out for 6 hours with still no restoration time. What should I do? Is the residual heat and humidity enough to keep them warm? It's probably about 75 degrees in my...
Meet my first chick ❤️ One hatched and several others have started. I’m so excited! Out of the 10 only 4 of them I can’t see any cracks, but they’re at the back and I don’t want to move the incubator around to get a look at them. So hopefully they’ve pipped too.