I have a 3 week old Delaware who I am sure is a pullet. I've noticed yesterday that she has an issue similar to a seizure or a spasm. He head and neck is involuntarily pulled down under her and she loses balance and scoots back. She does not fall down. These episodes last a few seconds each and...
Well, we are hatching Bantam Frizzled Cochins... 5 have hatch out just perfectly... then we were noticing how these 2 eggs were really taking a long time to hatch completely. They has already had the egg cracked open for half the egg and we were worried it was gunna dry up on them, we gave them...
I never see veins and on my second incubator hatch...my first hatch I saw no veins and had 10 out of 24 hatch, though I don't think that was a good hatch rate. I am already seeing blood rings in two bantam cochins eggs and some others don't look just right. I only have 5 GLW eggs left and...
Glad you found your little hen and her little bundle of surprise eggs.
It's now going into week 2 for my eggs...daughter had added 10 sussex eggs that'll hatch 4/5 days later than the others. Also, my sweet girl cracked one of MY eggs, a gold laced wyandotte, while candling...5 of those left...
Out of my first hatch, I only successfully hatched 10 out of 27 placed in incubator. I was pretty happy with that though...I got nervous closer to hatch date reading on here about some of the problems with chicks hatching or trying to hatch. But I didnt have to help chicks hatch in the...
This will be only my second hatch, but I learned that if there is a red ring in the egg during candling that it means the chick is dead. I had several I had to throw out with my first batch.
Yes the chickens are all cooped up now. They haven't been out since the last attack. I do let them free range in the yard sometimes...at least before the last attack and sometimes ran errands. I got relaxed and went to work with them out. My daughter left but her bf's dog came from 1/3 of a...
aww..I want to see veins. I hope my flashlight will be bright enough to see them this time. I could never see them my first hatch. What I did notice last night was that one cochin bantam eggs has a portion of what looks like a blood ring in the egg.
What I don't quite understand is what happens to some chickens after dog attacks. My chickens have been the victims of dogs in some way three different times in the past few months. We know who the dogs have been and had them returned to their owners or owners came to get the dog when notified...
Lemondrop was my beloved baby red cochin who never had a chance to grow up. She'd jump up in my hand or on my arm and sit w/ me. Poor baby was taken by a dog, i think. A few other chickens came up missing that evening, as well. No body was found. Bluebell was beautiful, fluffy, and blue and as...
Both pullets had a mass of maggots...enough that I cannot get the image out ot my head. The wet weather we have sure doesn't help. But I called a vet who wouldn't see her and did give some help over the phone. First flush the wound out w/ peroxide then coat w/ Adam's Flea Spray. Both have been...
The chickens were free ranging in my yard. Because nothing really happened too often and there seemed to be no problems I guess I became too relaxed with chickens out. I was at work and my daughter was supposed to be home but she had gone to her boyfriends house about 4 blocks away. Well, his...