Recent content by Sunyoung

I honestly don't know how to help her. However, I spoke to an avian vet a while back and she told me that clear, runny poo is urine? It was a long while back and I think that is what she had said. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can give you some advice for her. Until then, good luck and...

I hate to say this, but I know how you feel. One of my pullets is 43 weeks old and the others are roughly around the same age. I sold two of my girls (the 43 week old's hatchmates) and three days later, the OE that I sold laid her first egg. Later that night, I felt the pubic bones on all of my...

My oldest pullet is supposedly an Ameraucana. However, I suspect that it may actually be an Olive Egger. My Delawares didn't start laying until they were roughly 26 weeks old - and thought that was very late for most pullets. Now, I wish my pullets would have started that early!

Personally, I've never heard of a hen that is not broody adopt chicks. I wouldn't try forcing her to raise them. However, that is ultimately your choice. Just keep a very close eye on them - many hens will kill chicks should they feel like not being broody - and even when they are broody, I've...

Truthfully, I'm waiting on all four of my girls to start laying. Only one of them has an excuse as to why she isn't laying. She had been attacked by a hawk about a month or two back and is regrowing her feathers.. up until then, she had been the only one laying (she is the oldest at 1 and a half...

If everyone looks and acts normal and since they are coming out of winter molts, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It can take a little while for their systems to get back into the swing of things.

Do your chickens have both wings trimmed or just one? If trimming both wings, this can lead to the birds' wings to be even stronger (since it still has balance - just has to work harder at flight). If you trim just one wing then it has no balance for flight and will sort of just... "helicopter"...

If you let one of your hens hatch some eggs then I don't see why that would be a problem. Just make sure the nest box that she uses while broody is low to the ground for the chicks' sake. That way if the chicks were to fall out or jump out of the nest box, they'd still be able to get back in...

Two are Ameracanas bought from someone who was just starting out with breeding Ameraucanas at the time I believe. I sexed them with some help from memebrs of BYC since... At just about 10 months, it would be hard not know if you had a roo hiding among your flock. The other one is a Cochin...

That's not a typo. I have not one, not two, but THREE forty week old girls that have yet to lay their first eggs or start squatting. Am I doing something wrong? It just seems very unusual to me. I have everyone on grower feed right now with oyster shells and grit as free-choice.

They were dustbathing (as many others have already said). It's funny to watch and perfectly normal. Mine usually do it as a social thing too - very funny to see. And to show that it's a normal and natural instinct - even my chicks love doing it...

Here she (because if you call it a she, it will become a she... right? ) is about five hours ago. Still the only one hatched, but we have four pips and are now waiting for the last pip. Hopefully will have more chicks tonight. The hatched chick is way more active than I thought she'd be and...

As of ten minutes ago... The black marks on the side of the shell are part of a silly face that my dad drew when he gave me the egg. ETA: There is one other that has pipped too. And I hear just a tiny bit of peeping earlier.

I may be wrong, but if you hear it peeping, it's internally pipped. No harm done. However, someone with more experience than me might know more as this is my first time hatching as well.

Forgot to ask. I don't hear any chirping - is this normal? This is my first time hatching and I've been so nervous about it - that they are not chirping and also worried about humidity levels.