I just found another hen that apparently prolapsed an egg but I did not find her until after she tore herself getting it out and the wound was full of maggots. This is the second hen in that last 2 to 3 months that I have found like this.
The first hen healed after about 1 month but I am not...
Here are some pictures of my babies.
Here is the baby that hatched last night that I was worried about
Here is the one that I found today when I got home from work
It has such fuzzy feet...sooo cute
Here are my ordered babies a couple of weeks ago
and here are some of them now
They...
I let some hens go broody and so I let them set on some eggs. I went out day before yesterday and found a dead baby. Tonight I just went out and found a live baby but the mother began to peck at it. She would not quit so I brought it inside. My other chicks in the bathtub are huge compared to...
cause I just put in an order at my feed store for 30 chicks. I ordered a mix of easter eggers, silver laced wynadottes, red sex linked, barred rocks and rhode island reds. I must have a fever
One of my really fluffy hens apparently prolapsed an egg and tore her self. I noticed her away from the flock and picked her up. Her wounds are full of maggots. I rinsed out what I could and used a syringe full of water to get more out but I can't get them all out. I mixed some iodine with...
I have a hen (black sex linked I think) that has a bit of an overgrown beak that is now split. It looks like she has two points at the end of her top beak instead of one.
Can I try to clip the beak with dog nail clippers?
She is not eating and was just beginning to lay a couple of weeks...
It has been forever since I posted. I just found our first eggs today. I was so happy and laughed at the size of one of them. I call it my cadberry egg. We ate them tonight. The bigger of the three had a double yolk.
We discovered that we have a rooster but think that we actually have...
Our dog got off his chain. I just got home and found one chicken dead and another injured. I found one puncture wound. What do I do? It seems really tramatized. I put food and water right by it after I moved it into the garage. PLEASE HELP!!!!
This dog will have to find a new home. This...
Here are a few more pictures of my chicks. I love spending time. If only they were more friendly.
I swear this one and a couple of others look like they are crossed with a roadrunner and they act like it too.
in a cinder block hole?
We have these cinder blocks in the pen to help cover holes and give the chicks something to play on and in and they love laying inside. I have watched 3 try to fit in a hole.
One of my birds was injured when we got him. It has a swollen joint and walks with a pretty bad limp. It is smaller than the rest. Will it catch up or stay smaller than the rest?
Is upper 40's too cold for chicks that mostly have their feathers with a little down on their necks and chest. They have a house to get into and 25 other buddies to snuggle up with.
Hello
I am new and am sure that you have probably answered this many times. We have 30 chicks (brown egg layers) and they have started pecking each other. We move them outside during the day and inside at night. When can they stay outside all the time? What can we do to keep them from...