I have considered feeding him to our dog or eating him myself but my mother is so attached to that roo he is practicly a bany to her. A.K.A. acording to her he can do no wrong and apparently I am the problem and need to be gentler and kinder to the 'poor creamy'. Yea right if he has his way my...
Does anyone else have a roo that kicks. I don't know if this will work every time but I put him in roo jail which is a square meter by meter cage that I put in their sleeping cage. So when he is in there he can see all the hens but can not get to them. So now if I see him trying to storm or kick...
We dip the head every hour or so. And we have gotten it to eat. But because of the shaking it is struggling. I try to let it drink and eat between the shaking spells.
We did the splint. But transport is currently a problem because our vehicle is in for a service and we live on a farm quite far from the nearest store.
I am currently giving him a mix of 1 liter water, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon applecider vinegar and a pinch of salt. I dont have chicken vitamins that are safe for newborn chicks. Only teenagers and adults.
The day before yesterday someone contacted me and said that someone gave them a 1-2 day old baby chick but because they have no brooder and a lot of dogs and cats they asked me if I wil take care of the chick till it is a little bit older. Last night I got the chick and first thing I noticed is...
Also I am absolutely sure it is fowl pox I have had chickens with it before. But the other chickens usually only had one eye closed and it headed beautifully. I don't know why these keep getting worse.
I dont want to pick at their eyes or anything. I just open the eyes enough to put medicine in and then leave them. But they are not eating or drinking. They are essentially blind. What can I do?
I have a few chicks with fowl pox some are already healing but two of them have both their eyes sealed by the scabs of the pox and their eyes are starting to swell now when I gently pulled their eyelids apart to apply medicine their eyes are covered by this white solid substance. Any advice is...
No, but the one I am looking for is very simular. But it is about why the chick stopped developing at a certain stage. Like because of high temprature, low humidity, old layer. I can remember that if the chick stopped developing on 1-3 days it could be high temp, old layer, hereditary problems ect.
Hi I am looking for a post I read a few days ago about chicks dieing at different stages of development in the egg can someone help. I accidentally deleted my history when I searched for something now I cant seem to find it