So we had a female guinea go broody on a clutch of about 30 eggs down in the woods. We normally will not let them do that, but we couldn't find her, then she showed up after 2 days, I locked her up and then followed her the next day and found where she was nesting. It wasn't far from their...
Good point. Not maggots though. After reading other posts about that stuff, I checked all of their vents when I weighed them to make sure there wasn't a fly strike. I'll see if I can get a good photo today. Thanks dawg53
I guess I should add, I haven't seen any tapeworm segments, if they look the same in chicken poop as they do in cat poop. lol. I'll try and get a picture today. The worms I saw looked like the little skinny ones in the video. So are the little skinny ones tapeworms or just the segments...
I free range my chickens and the other day one of them pooped in front of me and I thought, is that moving, on closer examination I noticed a couple of little bitty, I mean tiny worms moving around. Then I noticed another one pooped some reddish brown diarreah and there was one of these little...
Oh and the 1st and 3rd pics are the same chicken. The second is the one that is suppose to be a pullet. The last one I know is a rooster because he is trying to crow. lol. Do any of you know what kind the pullet is suppose to be? I put a black sex link because that is what he or she looks...
I bought 4 pullets and 2 straight run bantams the last week of march. I know the silver sebright is a rooster because he was trying to crow this morning. The other bantam is a black frizzle and I thought might be a rooster but the waddles are just barely pink, comb isn't red like the sebright...
Thanks Cajunfeatherz! I've never had bantams so I didn't know. I've read a lot about seabrights, but couldn't find the information I was after. The other bantam is a frizzle, I think and it may very well be rooster. It is really a lot bigger. Great idea on putting an object in with them...
Are they always so tiny? I bought 4 pullets and 2 bantams and they are coming up on 2-3 weeks, one is for sure a sebright, but she is so much smaller than the other chicks I bought. She has more feathers than the rest, but it seems like she isn't really growing, either that or the others are...
Oh, and do you think I should still put a piece of tape over the crack? I didn't know when the little fella starts moving around if it would split right open.
Thanks PD-Riverman. Well, I went ahead and removed the egg, I didn't want to draw ants in there with the momma and the rest of the babies. We do keep her in a separate pen but one of the other hens slid in behind me as I was working trying to get the corners "baby proof". I removed the egg...
One of our eggs that is 5 days out from hatching has a dent/crack in it. I don't know if she stepped on it or if one of the other eggs bumped it or what. There is nothing leaking out of it, just a pretty good size dent. Does anyone know if this egg and baby chick are still good? Will it...