My 1 year old chicken (free range). Honey has been sitting on the nest for over 4 days. Broody I suspect. But when I let her have a bit of time off from the nest, she pooped and her poo had worms in it (roundworms) about 3-4 of them. Her crest is quite pale and she seems to be eating and...
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We adopted Nutmeg over 6 months ago and we just put her breed down to 'Isa Brown'.
But today I was looking at her feathers and I thought to myself, hang on a sec, she has the body structure of an Isa Brown, but not the feathering.
I started looking at the chicken breeds on this website...
My 1 day old quail chick has been weak ever since it hatched. It hatched 12 hours after the other 2 I have.
It hasn't eaten or drunken anything (maybe a few drops of water) and it's very sleepy. I have tried it on a bit of sugar water, but that didn't seem to help at all.
Sometimes I think it's...
Any coturnix experts out there? I need your help!
I have 3 coturnix quail eggs in my incubator and they are on day 19.
Last night I heard alot of tapping going on yesterday when I turned off the fan to hear them (real noisy fan, can't hear anything over it) and they have broken the air pocket...
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I have 3 coturnix quail eggs in lock down at the moment (exciting!)
They are on day 14 and seem quite heavy when I last checked them.
About 2 years ago I got some quail eggs and tried to hatch them in a incubator that I made, I didn't know anything about humidity back then.. I know...
So recently, we had one of our chickens 'Honey' at the local show, she was happily with a rooster (to try and get fertile eggs).
I think her eggs are fertile, but there is one thing that is making me really confused (about our other chicken)
Anyway. Our other chicken, Nutmeg, was adopted in...
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My name is Julia, and I have 2 chickens, Honey and Nutmeg.
We think they are both Isa Browns and are free range.
Honey was 3 weeks old when I first got her in 2011, I was volunteering at our local show's animal nursery and someone was selling 'sexed' baby chickens. I used my pocket money...