I have our last chick hatch today, but it is sick. It has foam coming from the beak and vent. What causes this? It is a part from the 12 healthy chicks. Just trying to firgue out what this is. Thanks
This started Wednesday one chick looked sick immediately I removed the sick chick. Came couple hours later 3 died chicks and another sick. Immediately I removed the sick chick. This has been a cycle, but the cycle has changed. The first 7 chicks that got sick started off with moving very slow...
I need help a friends hen vent is swollen and open. The hen is 2 years. We have no clue at what this is. She is just laying.There is no feathers around the vent. I add a picture, i told her i thought it was a bound egg but i was not sure. Any ideas on what this is?thanks Karen
This a chicken about 6 months, It was bitten by a small dog in its side. There is no puncture wound but alot of swelling. One wing looks broken not moving the wing. It will stand but wont walk. What do i do for it? I thought it would die but it has been a couple of hours? Since i dont know if it...
I am about to throw all my eggs away. I have for the past month having been getting chicken eggs that are full of blood, not spot but full of blood. I collect them once a day and it is not hot about 70 outside if it gets hot i collect twice a day. Theses eggs look bloody with like a blood clot...
Ok i got 9 golden comets about 15 weeks old. There skin looks really red.It looks like they are all bleeding but there not. I have not had this and i raised 20 other chickens but they were RIR.So is this the normal??
Ok all my hens are new to laying. i thought that with time this will get better by i have now had 4 no shelled eggs by the same chicken.Anything i need to do or just wait and see if this fixes itself?thanks in advance
Ok i had post here. I was all weird a couple days ago because my chickens were not laying. Well working in the garden i heard a chicken hollaring and i walked over there.She wanted to show me her frist egg. I was so excited. what a great way to end a long weekend.
I have Rhode island Reds and got them jan. 3.They were two weeks old when I got them, so that makes them around 21 weeks. They have not started laying. I am giving them laying mash but i had someone tell me that since they were born before may that they won't lay until august. Is this try and if...
I bought me some chicks straight run rhode island red one month to two months old, different ages. I would love to know any tricks people know to tell the roos from the pullets.thanks in advance my camera had the wrong date on it.
I am looking for chickens one rooster and the rest female. I want just good laying chickens. If anyone has or knows of any farms that sell chickens around upstate, sc or NC please let me know. Thanks Karen
I thought I some golden comets I was going to buy but the seller decied to keep them. So now i have a chicken coop ready for chickens butno chickens yet. Looking for a good laying egg chickens could be white or brown eggs. Anyone know where i can find some around spartanburg south...