Monday after work i came home and noticed my toms caruncle/wattle was / is swollen 2x its normal size.
started oxytetraceline thinking an infection. 2 days later it seem to be the same. any ideas??
I have a rescued appx 10 weeks old. He is injuried around his neck. Injuried so bad that i can see the flesh and possible cut(s). the injury is drawing ants...how can i protect him from the ants?
I have a rescued appx 10 weeks old. He is injuried around his neck. Injuried so bad that i can see the flesh and possible cut(s). the injury is drawing ants...how can i protect him from the ants?
I have a bator 1602n (Styrofoam bottom) what is the best way to clean the Styrofoam of the incubator. can bacteria survive from one hatch and infect the next hatch.
my firsst hatch about 3 months ago, 13/15 (88%)survived and going strong, the next hatch about a month ago mortality rate was 100%...
I have a chick that is walking/stumbling around walking on her shank. Her toes are appear fully developed. But for some reason she walks around on the end of her shank, as her toes are curled up under her foot when she is walking. Does anyone have any suggestions? I will try and get pics posted...
Have 16 eggs in incubator 8 hatched between yesterday afternoon and early this morning, and 2 more pippin thru..wooohooo. Daddy better get a bigger brooder.
no one told me that when the chicks hatch the incubator would stink like.....i dont know what...
Does anyone or has one done a study to see what sort of ratio you get when hatching eggs. I guess what i am trying to get at is I have 20 eggs on day 8, of those 20 are 19 going to be roosters or vise-versa?
I have a rooster of unknown variety a week ago I posted and was told it sounded like gapeworm. Did the worm treatment but still he is very raspy when he crows. I read on another one site to put cider vinegar in the water, to clean any possible mucus in his throat; he is very shy when I come...
#1Recently...the last week or so I have noticed that my roo has lost his "cock". I thought nothing of it I suppose for the first day or so but now this has been going on for a week! My girls are in molt could this have something to do with his lack of a cock-a-doodle-doing....
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I was not expecting this...i came in from school and I have 2 chicks....hours old...what do I do? I have them in the house now with a light on them...what next?
Recently (today) I recieved a roo...not thinking about the trip home I was concerned about his "mental status" and when I got home I turned him loost. Immeadiately he bolted for the woods. I followed to see if I could redirect his attention way from the woods and back towards the coop and my...
Runny eyes....pus
sort of looks like fowl pox but I don't or have not read where this is a factor
anyway took a couple of pics maybe someone can tell what this is and what i should / can do about it
:|Just a while ago I was out in the coop with the girls when I heard one of my DOMs purring? Someone tell me I'm not losing my hearing or my mind!! PLEASE FOR GIVE ME IF THIS HAS BEEN ANSWERED BEFORE :|
Appx a 3 weeks ago one of my RIR hens got out and stayed out all night "lost" in the woods..ever since then no eggs.. since she was gone and I though dead:( I moved my younger pullets into her tractor. How that she is back she is with the other pullets and still no eggs.
I have moved them all...