Hello! I live in town and have chickens for the eggs, but also want to sell and give away hatching eggs. And, I don't want to eat or rehome my roo. I just got the chicks a few days ago and am teaching them to get used to being handled, etc. While doing this, I have gotten very attached to them...
Greetings. Have you had any luck finding a vet that can help? I'm in Colorado and am searching for a vet here for the same purpose. I live in town and have chickens for the eggs, but also want to sell and give away hatching eggs. And, I don't want to eat or rehome my roo. I just got the chicks a...
When I lived in the mountains of Colorado, I would put the younger ones in a big cardboard box on nights that were supposed to get below freezing. Once they were grown, of course, that was no longer necessary.
Yep. Sounds like spraddle leg. Not a deformity, but an injury that likely happened during the hatching process. Hope you can help the little one get better.
I think too far outside the box sometimes, so please forgive me.
I'm picturing a brooder situated just above, and to the side of your wood stove. Then, water filled copper tubing wrapped around the stove pipe several times, and run along the bottom of the brooder. Since heat rises, the brooder...