I had to buy chicken saddles or aprons off of Amazon because my rooster was doing the same thing to my hens they work really well. The chickens don’t like them at first, but they get used to them and it takes a little bit for the feathers to grow back so be patient.
It is at the tip of the upper beak ,but it hasn’t broken off it bent inwards so he isn’t able to close his mouth , I guess it’s more of a crack . I have tried to pull it up so he would be able to close his mouth but I wasn’t able to do so . I feel he was in enough pain already and I didn’t have...
So my Broody hen hatched three eggs out of 10 six days ago I have tried candling the eggs but they are brown eggs and very difficult to see through this morning three more eggs, hatched, and I can hear a baby chick chirping inside of one more. One of the babies died after it hatched within a...
I live in Yuma az so when it gets hot it’s really hot I have purchased a portable swamp cooler for the chicken coop because we are expecting 111 degrees in a few days so that means evening time it will be around 93-95 and very dry my chickens free range all day so I use misters and shallow trays...
My hen hatched 3 out of 10 eggs 3 days ago . I did the warm water test on the remaining eggs and could see movement on 6 of them she doesn’t seem to want to stay on the nest now should I go invest on an incubator? Or just leave them alone since I live in az and it is supposed to be 106 today ?