Hi all! I am the aunt with the Welsummer 😁. She is doing so much better today. She can stand and is taking some steps. I have been giving her egg yolk with nutri-drench along with her regular crumbles. I also put some electrolytes in her water and gave her some vitamin B as suggested. I am...
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#3 (Looks redder to me but also looks like it has a cut on its comb)
Side by side: The black one is significantly smaller and has skinny legs. Looking forward to seeing what it turns into.
A friend of mine hatched these chicks in her classroom. I am thinking about keeping two of them to replace two of my hens that a friend is taking. These are mixes of all sorts and they are 3 weeks old. Which two would you keep? (FYI I am in the city and cannot have roosters) This is all...
Hi, my oldest chicken is concerning me a little. About a month ago I noticed that her fluff feathers had not lost the sheathing around them. I brought her in, gave her a bath and helped remove the sheathing. Now they are all fluffy and look good (I will add that she did not have about 75% of...
For the first time ever I got an egg from each of my chickens! I have had chickens for almost 4 years and this has never happened, always one short. I am pretty excited about it.
Eggs clockwise starting on green:
easter egger, easter egger, cuckoo marans, white rock, partridge rock, buff...
I have been watching the other chickens, no one seems to pick on her. They don't get scratch, I give them BOSS and dried mealworms as a snack. Their feed is Ranch-Way organic no soy layer which I believe is 16-18%. I had them on a higher protein feed when I merged my younger girls which was 20%...
I have a 1.5 year old Mottled Java that has lost most of the feathers on her head and throat (see picture). She is not the bottom of the pecking order, I would say she is ranked 2nd out of the 9 hens I have. I don't have any roosters either. What would cause her to lose the feathers on her...
I am at Harrington, north of City Park. We won't be hatching many duck eggs, last year we only had two hatch, I will let you know what we get. They are Pekin.
Keep us posted on your chicks!
That is how I acquired our first chicks. We hatch chicks in our kindergarten class and two of the ECE classrooms do too. I picked 6 out of about 20 chicks and I managed to get 5 roosters! I hope you have better luck than I did. This year we are also hatching ducks which I will be looking to...
I caught my Cuckoo Marans yesterday in my neighbor's yard, stalking a cat! The cat was not interested in all. This funny chicken will even charge at my Jack Russells, she is pretty brave! Anyone else have a chicken who is not such a chicken?
Any suggestions on what to do with an 8 week old rooster? I am in the city limits and cannot have him, and he has started to crow in the mornings. I had suspicions early on and now I regret not doing something about it then, now he is too big to cull easily and I can't keep him till he is big...