This was so helpful! We switched up her diet to limit food. She has always been the happiest, sweetest chicken who follows me around like a shadow. She’s the best layer too! She averages 5-6 eggs a week and this week gave me 2 super eggs! I’m so glad we kept her around. I swear if my husband...
Thank you for all of your responses! So we had plans to put her down Saturday and woke up to an egg! Collected it, went back outside- another egg. That evening went outside to put her up- another egg. She laid 3 eggs in 48 hours and another this morning. Is it possible she’s not a Cornish...
Yes. Here she is a chick (we lost the others due to raccoon while free ranging). They grew super fast and do not go up on a perch, but like to lay in the ground.
Hi! I was told my tractor supply chick was a white leghorn but she is getting HUGE and hasn’t started laying yet (4 months old). Could she be a different breed?
Also- I know my darker 2 chicks are Rhode Island reds, but any clue what the lighter 2 are and black one?
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! My husband builds homes so he tends to go overboard when I ask him to build me things. LOL. Ordered the brewers yeast you recommended- thanks again!
Hello! After a rough summer trying to hatch, I bit the bullet and purchased 5 white layer ducklings. They are now 10 days old and ADORABLE! It’s been a long time since we we had ducks, and I’m rusty. They’re on non medicated chick feed (pic attached) and have experimented with some treats-...
She did pass half in her shell and half out. She was pushing to get out but couldn’t do it. I didn’t take her out to see if her yolk had been absorbed- I was afraid that if it had I would blame myself for not helping more. It’s been a rough morning. Never thought I would be so sad. :(
Thank you. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Along with keeping the membrane moist with a q tip. You can see her little face and her eye is open already. Do they normally come out with their eyes open?
That is helpful- thank you. I’m mostly worried about the spot she hurt her beak from pecking. I picked away around where the air sac was and the membrane is mostly clear I think. It’s hard to tell because there is blood from her beak. :(
Thank you so much! I did a safety hole after about 30 hours of internal pip. That seemed to help as she perked right up and pipped. She did about 3-4 external pips then just continued pecking for the past 24 hours on that one spot. She pecked that big hole on her own. When I checked on her this...
My white layer duck has been trying to hatch, but and I believe was stuck. She is on day 30. She made one huge hole but couldn’t turn to zip. When I just checked her there was blood on her beak from pecking this pointy spot in the egg. I chipped it back slightly and found she was slightly shrink...