This little mille fleur d'uccle is 5 months old today (20 weeks). I kept it thinking it was a girl but now I have my doubts.
It acts aggressive to the other girls. And then it's getting these pointy sex feathers. The majority of the pointy sex feathers are on one half of its body. So, is it...
I've only been doing backyard chickens for a year so I'm pretty new at this. I don't know what's serious or what's not serious.
I posted about this pullet's eye a few days ago. (Miette) Here are pics of the eye of more than a week ago:
and here are pics that I just barely took:
so...
So I'm new to chickening (only over a year with chickens) and have to find out everything through experience, I guess. My little mille fleur d'uccle hen, Miette, has something different going on with her eyes. It could be nothing and just how she's made genetically. But, either way, there is...
Hi, everyone! I'd love your experienced eye on trying to figure out if these are boys or girls. I have a small coop & backyard so would like to rehome the roos asap or as soon as I know they're roos! I have three chicks that I hatched from green eggs that are a cross from a Lavender...
...red and I call it "red" and the other is lighter so I call it "honey".
Here is honey:
Here is red:
Here are the both, red in front, honey in back
here are both again, red on left, honey on right:
so, do I have two boys here?
thanks!
**edit: I forgot to mention they're 10-11 weeks old.**
Hello, everyone! I love hearing everyone's responses and opinions. I just cleaned out my coop due to lice & dusted everything. Let it all air out overnight and now ready to fill with bedding. What I have done is pine shavings and sprinkle in sweet pdz and food grade DE every 1 or 2 weeks and...
I don't have any helpful pictures unfortunately because I needed to hold her with two hands.
My beautiful pullet Gertrude (a coronation sussex) has always picks the feathers around her wings. I thought that was her thing. The other day, I noticed she had a droopy wing. I instantly blamed my...
I have a small flock and this is my first spring with chickens. Previously, I had only 2 egg layers: a mill fleur d'uccles and a spangled spitzhauben. My 7 months old wyandotte is not laying and neither are my 5 month old french black copper marans and sussex. Sad, I know. Even more sad, a...
Hi, everyone. Thanks for looking. I love hearing everyone's thougths...so many smart people out here.
I put 14 ameraucana eggs and 11 buckeye eggs in to incubate. I turned them in my brinsea eco and then put them in lockdown in my hovabator. 12 of the 14 ameraucanas hatched. NONE of my...
Hello, everybody, thanks for looking! I have a question for all the more knowledgeable people out there. I've heard my chickens sneezing a bit lately out here in Oklahoma. I recently put sand in their chicken run and we have really high winds lately. Could either of those be reasons to make...
Hi, everyone, thanks for looking. I have a really simple question. do buckeye eggs have a longer incubation period than your average egg? I usually have great hatch rates (days 1-18 in brinsea, then lockdown in hovabator). In the same hatch, I had 100% hatch rate in d'uccles (hatched at day...
Let me start out by saying that I have scoured, I mean SCOURED, the internet for a couple of hours each day for a few days now looking for the best idea for my situation/setup.
I only have 6-8 chickens (as in, currently six, will soon be eight) and the coop is not very large. I am a backyard...
Yesterday I found my 8 week old Coronation Sussex, Duchess, dead in the coop.
I was absolutely shocked. I had been out taking pictures of the chickens the day before and Duchess seemed completely healthy. No runny noes or eyes, no sneezing or coughing, no weird droppings, no sick behaviors...
Hi,
so, I'm new to this as of this year. My first flock got eaten. My second flock is alot safer but they're young right now. They range from 2 weeks to 2 months old. yesterday when I was changing out water & food, I noticed a long, stringy, clear gooey thing. Kind of like clear snot...
This chick hatched early this morning with its eye like this. I've left it alone the whole day just in case something should change, but it looks the same, just drier, darker & scabbier.
It's horrible. it pulses or jiggles around when it tries to move its other eye.
So far it's standing...
these chicks were bought from Justin at Blue Poultry in Springfield, MO. They're nearly 4 weeks old. His birds are really beautiful & he said his flock is a combination of lines from Foley's, Paul's Poultry, and Cottage Hill. See his website for pictures of the adult flock. If you live in...
What happened? It fell out of the 4ft coop that I'm using as a brooder right now (it seriously just ran straight right out the open door) and now has an eye with a red dot on the lower lid & will barely open it. And, now it has what looks like bumble foot. Can chicks 2 weeks old get bumble...
What do you think? it ran & fell right out of its 4' tall coop. Now it has an eye it won't hardly open & what looks like bumble foot. Can a 2 week old chick even have bumble foot? help please! BTW, it's a Buff Orpington born almost 2 weeks ago.
I have a small backyard coop for a small, backyard flock. The flock has 2 bantams & the rest are standard size. The coop is 4x4 & the run is 4x11. Can I put a waterer in the coop? Should I put it in the run? What about the feeder? I'd like to avoid having mice/vermin with their fleas...
Hi, I think I let this chick run around in the incubator too much. Both of its feet are bent in.
I hope you can see that well in the picture. Basically it can't walk. I put bandaids on both of its feet, but it's too tiny to wrap a bandaid around each toe. I just put a flat foot in one...