thankyou. hes perked up a bit its 60 degreeshere with a towel over part of his crate and woodchips inside it. is thisok? I gave him water and food. is it possible for him to eat or drink too much since hes not in good condition?
my rooster is less than a year old. a few days ago he was fine. I go out there everyday but I dont go in the run. ijust look in there to see if they need water they ran out of food afew days ago so they were foraging. well hes been in the coop the whole time. I thought he was just doing chicken...
Hi. I went out to shut the coop and i counted all but one chicken over and over again. So i got our spotlight and i found her on the ground dead in the chicken yard. We inspected her. She had no wounds or blood or broken bone or anything unusual. She definitly wasnt sick. I really dont know...
Somebody please help! I just pushed back in and it stayed in until she pooped again. She squaks when she poops until it comes out. It is like an off white color, really skinny, and rolls like a scroll vertically. I dont know what to do! Could she be stressed from the flood and its nothing to...
My hen laid an egg with no shell yesterday. She also pooped out something attached to her about 2.5 inches long that can rool out like a scroll. I put it back in after i lubricated it with. Vaseline, then in the middle of te night she pooped it out again. Yesterday she tried to poop it out...
so we have been trying to incorporate her with the mother, but she is still being rejected. she is doing SOOOOOOO much better though!!!!
so am I allowed to love on her a lot and mother hen her? she is super sweet and needs a friend but cant get one because of my hen. please let me know everything!!
thankyou!!!! we are slowly accumulating this chick, we named her Catherine, back with her mother and it is going well. the mother is accepting her and protecting her.
the only problem is shes too attachted to me. she doesn't stop peeping until I pick her up. when she does her peep while shes...
Ok. Another one just hatched. She wasnt sitting on him. She was sitting a little off the nest...
PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it looks like maybe his right leg is hurt. he puts all his weight on his left leg. I looked at it and felt around and it seems kind of limp in the area where the knee is.
please somebody help!!!
two of my production red chicks hatched yesterday. they hatched under the mother naturally but one was sort of abandoned. we put the mother and her other chicks in the coop and this chick under her. he came out this morning and she stepped on him for the second time. I don't think he has...
one of my other hens is in the other laying box with unfertilized eggs. there was another egg that was poking out from under the broody hen. my other hen took the egg poking out and is sitting on it with the nine unfertilized ones. is she broody now? her comb has been redder but she hasnt been...
oh thank yall sooooooo much you have no idea how stressed I am since we wont be home.
im not really sure what day shes on. the other two hens had been laying in the same box she was brooding in for about a week. we would have stopped it earlier but we didn't know she was broody until we boiled...
thankyou!!!! what about pasty butt? she cant be there often. ive read you should check them every few hours. that scares me a bit because of how frequently she can be there.