For the past 3 months I've been fighting with something in my chickens. They were sneezing, coughing and wheezing.
I'm semi-new to the chicken thing, having them for not even 18 months, but until March of this year I had only 6 and now I have 3 pens and 25 total (plus 7 meat birds).
* First I...
Never had this problem before, so I don't know what exactly to look for...
I've read several threads about scaly legs and yesterday I started treating her by washing her legs with warm water and holistic/natural flea shampoo + a mix of bag balm and VetRx (warmed up for better mixing and...
Bought hatching eggs (copper marans and olive eggers), hatched and raised them all, hoping I'd get some hens out of them.
Sold a few as chicks, kept 6 olive eggers, 4 marans, and one barred rock/marans cross.
They are 18 weeks old now and unfortunately they are all looking like roosters...
Depending on your advice, I'll need to act quickly!
My hen went broody so last Saturday I gave her 6 three days old baby chicks.
They all adopted each other. Yesterday I came home and found out my cat got 5 of them. I secured their pen with chicken wire but she now has only one left.
Should I...
I've read a lot of threads about people trying to develop a bantam version for the marans.
Has anyone successfully done it?
I'm not interested in the breed, but I have a young roo that I believe would be a great addition to a bantam project... He's 5 months old and half of the size he should...
I had 15 eight weeks old chicks. 2 of them were wheezing and sneezing, so I'm giving them all Duramycin-10 (400mg dosage).
They are not wheezing anymore, but I lost one bird last week and another one about one hour ago. They are ALL puffed up, with droopy eyes and wings, and are pooping bloody...
I already asked this on a different thread, but no one came forward, so I'm trying again....
I hatched some eggs from TRUE Ameraucanas, not Easter Eggs, born on March 16 & 17. Parents were wheaten and blue wheaten.
Can anyone help me to identify some colors / genders? I have everything under...
I got a hoba-vator 1602 as my early Valentine's Day present from my hubby. Let it stabilize for 48 hours, had temperature at 99.8F and humidity oscillating between 49.8% and 50.1%
Last Sunday I put 40 chicken eggs in it. The temperature is stable, at 100F, but the humidity keeps dropping...
Brand new first time chicken owner, got my new 4 "kids" yesterday.
2 came as pullets (the blonde ones), Buff and Light Sussex mix, 8 weeks old.
2 came as question marks (the white one, a 8 week purebred Delaware, and the dark one, a 4 week Blue Laced Red Wyandotte mix).
Suggestions / help...