I had my broody raise some broilers for the first 4ish weeks until they were out competing my other chicks for food so I had to take them from her. They are about 6 weeks now and growinguch faster now that they are on a 21% broiler feed
Yea I sure hope it's nothing that serious. I don't want to give them antibiotics unless I'm sure that it will be what they need. Just trying to get ahead of a potentially large issue
Ok so a quick back story I had a hen go broody so I got some bresse eggs off of Craigslist and put them under my broody. Jumping ahead 3 weeks I had 4/5 eggs hatch, figured more the merrier and got 5 two day old Cornish cross chicks for her to raise while she's at it. Since the feed store had...
Very confused by the question but I ask you this if you were acting out would cutting off part of your mouth calm you down? Beak clipping is a horrible horrible thing to do to a chicken please dont
I finally had to cull one of my rhode islands because she would come after me every time I was around. It was a sudden change in her and I put up with it for a while but when she drew blood I had enough. She was very aggressive toward the other birds in the flock too