My chickens never used to be mean. 1 is my bantam game rooster (was as sweet as can be), 2 is my 1/2 silkie hen (used to cuddle), and three is my non social bantam game hen. 3 days ago I put a new hen in there. She was half silkie and sweet as can be. They seemed to be interested in her and did...
Okay so i have chicks of all different ages. my oldest ones are like 3-4 weeks old. when can they go outside? and when they do, should i put them straight into the coop or into a rabbit hutch thats in my coop? also, some of my chicks are getting reddish-brown runny poop. is that bad? its been...
this little guy has had eye problems since he was born and hes about 2 weeks old. Is there anything i can do for his eye? its runny and crusty and sometimes he cant open it. Also, could this kill him? sometimes it gets crusted shut and when i open it clear goo oozes out. PLEASE HELP!
Okay so my 1/2 silkie hen, Tabitha, will be 1 in April. She just recently started sitting on 3 eggs for her very first time. I have 10 of her chicks that I incubated and hatched at my house and they are a few weeks old. I thought I would take her and introduce her to them today to see what she...
Ok so nemo (who got his name because he had a scar across his egg) is really having a tough time. He is probably 3-4 days old and I still haven't seen him eat or drink. I noticed that one of his feet is smaller than the other and he doesn't have full use of it. He keeps it really close to his...
Okay so I have a 2 day old chick and he is the one who had the tumor thing. It is now gone but I've noticed that he seems to be a lot weaker than the others. And that he doesn't have much use of his left leg. What should I do? Will he get stronger? Another thing, there was a chick that was not...
Ok so one of my chicks hatched 3 days ago and 2 hatched last night. One of the new chicks has like a soft tumor or fluid pocket on his neck. He also seems to be very weak. Do you think he'll die?
Okay so today is day 21 for some of my eggs. They still havent hatched. I candled them on day 17 and they were moving around and everything. well today i wasnt home so i got my mom to turn my eggs for me. i forgot to tell her not to turn these eggs. so she did. could that have killed them? im so...
Okay so my chicks are about to hatch and im really nervous. Some are due to hatch this weekend and some next week. When they hatch, what do i do? what if im not there? how long do i leave them in the incubator? Is it okay if i put them in a big storage box with shavings in it with a heat lamp...
Okay so I have about 20 eggs in the incubator and most of them are moving along nicely. Then there's these two. What does this mean? Also, when the chicks hatch, what do I do with them? Another thing, it seems that my rooster is only fertilizing one hen's eggs. Is this normal? [/IMG]
Ok so I have 6 eggs in my incubator. I've been incubating for 5 days. The first 2 days I didn't have an incubator and used a heat lamp and I accidentally over heated them. Well I candled them tonight and I didn't see any veins or dark spots. Should I just stop incubating them? Do you think...
I have been feeding my 2 hens and one rooster Dumor Crumbles (which they loved). One day I decided to go buy them some cracked corn as a treat. Now they won't eat anything but the cracked corn. Is this bad? If so, what should I switch them to?
Okay, so I have one rooster (Cooper), and two hens (Cheetah and Nugget). They're all bantams. I have had my rooster for about 2 months and he his 5-6 months old. The hens were spring 2012 chicks. I got them from the same place about a month ago. Well, they're not laying. At all. And I really...
Okay so Im new to all this. I got a rooster a couple months ago and just got two hens not even a week ago. They are banties. On of them has some feather loss on her head and right above her tail. The place right above her tail has a few oozing bumps? She was like this when I got her and there...