I'm not sure If there is a special place for this as I have been away from the forum for a really long time. I am just now coming back to hatching eggs and keeping chickens. I have been using canva to make things at work and decided to use it to make a sheet to help me remember dates and basic...
Thank you. I worked to get the eyes open on all that where stuck shut. Vet care for poultry doesn't really exist in this area though I will get in touch with a vet I am friends with to see if I can get the medication from her.
I'm not sure what to do, so come asking for help.
First hen showed up yesterday with eyes stuck shut and a snotie nose. In 24 hours I have had 3 more begin to show the same signs and another has died. I'm not sure the one who died had the same symptoms but she could have.
I have a flock of...
I've had some bad luck finding a quality thermometer/hygromiter to use in the incubator. I just have one of the foam incubators. It works well and i have had very good hatches when I can monitor the temp and humidity.
My question is.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a thermometer/hygromiter...
I have not been able to find a thread disgusting what "show quality" is in general.
What defines show quality?
If you want to breed show birds for FFA and 4H would you have to buy stock from a show breeder or just find a few birds with good qualities to start out with.
I have chicks ranging in age from a month to a day old. Im working on a project that will have my chickens off my main farm being (rented) by local customers. What do I need to vaccinate any of the chicks I hatch agains? Also if I want to sell them.
...I was really sad because I lost two mid hatch. I was helping as little as possible and they seemed fine I looked back in a couple hours later and *poof* gone. This time its all barn yard mix again except for a few possible pure American and buff orpington. This is also my first tome hatching...
almost 2 weeks old and their first day outbof their brooder box.took them about 10min before they started scratching about and getting excited. They really like hanging out in the branches I gave them to play in
So after doing some reading on leg issues on the forum and learning center I grabbed my roll of masking tape (thinking this would be the least stick tape I had in the house) and taped the leg into the proper position yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon she was looking a lot Bette so I took...
I'm so lost. This is what my one chick looks like. The leg is stuck strait out behind it. I got her to take a little water feom a dropper and tryed to get her to eat some wet feed but sit isn't intureated in that. Its alert and trying to get around but cant. Its been almost two days now. Do I...
So I have a chick that is having trouble getting one leg under herself. She hatched early this morning and hasn't been able to walk (waddle) properly. I know someone had a similar problem here not long ago but I cant find the post or any of the suggestions on how to help. Can anyone help?
I tryed that with the one I helped out. It took over 24 hours before I took most of the shell. I tryed help in just with the unzipping part but she was having a hard time and seemed to be getting pritty exhausted.She seems ok now but theirs a first ttime for everything. I try hard to leave them...
The first two hatched on their hatch date. I had to help one along, she had me really nervous because I've never done that before and she kept bleeding so I took it slow. I had to chip almost all the shell off and open up the white softer part inside but she's out this morning along with two...
Ida 've my first three eggs starting to hatch! I had an absolute panic attack this morning because I forgot to check the incubator before we left the house to make an almost 4 hour round trip to help my husband's grandfather fix his tractor. We just got home an hour ago and I looked in on the...
Thanks everyone! Y'all gave me a lot of great ideas. I didn't think about the teething but he is doing that right now. I have an older dog he plays with as well at my almost 2 year old son. He is the first forgivable had who has a sensitive stomach. It took us over a month to find him a quality...
I'm not sure if I'm right and he a due at the vet again soon anyways but I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone had ideas. We have a 5-6 month old healer puppie who has for the last month or so been chewing on the floor vent covers that I find annoying and I thought was just a bad...
One week tomorrow till my hatch date! Finaly got the feed room and my new Broder room (closet) mostly ready. Does anyone have experience using a watering trough (minus the water of course) as a Broder box? I am trying this method since I have had such a terrible time with card-board boxes and my...
I candled this morning, I only did it to a few and I'll go back later so thereon didn't drop much. All of them had development and I saw a few embrioes move!!! So exciting.