Pipped yesterday, but found the egg had been broken (squashed this morning).
Chick is still alive this afternoon, chirping (still under mother), and beak is outside shell.
Membrane feels rubbery, and still appears complete. There were some drops of blood this morning which have dried up now...
One of my hens have been suffering with vent gleet for a while and I just read online to give her yogurt with apple cider vinigar and molasses and I was just wondering if that will work and also how long to give them to her. Thanks!
This morning when I let the chickens out my rooster wouldn't stop shaking his head on one side. He has no cuts or bugs, nothing unusual that I can see. The only thing is he was yellow earwax stuff. Any suggestions?
My hens have all started to stop laying! A couple of months ago they had lice and I thought that was the problem with them, but they're all lice free now and still no increase in eggs. we are even putting vitamin boost in their water which is supposed to help with everything, but still no...
He is a sultan and was the first chicken I ever had. I get attacked by him every day, but despite his aggressivenss he is a very funny breed! I'm pretty sure he has some kind of brain damage, but he seems very happy taking care of our 9 hens. I read online that sultans are very kind, loving, but...
She went broody in June and I spent a month trying to break her, but ended up giving in because she wouldn't come out to drink or eat and had lost a lot of weight. Don't want to hatch again as we ended up with 2 roos and one hen like last year, they're still in our garden right now, but we...
Iv just put 2 drops of this stuff on each of my birds, but I'm not sure if I need to put more drops on as its meant to be for pigeons. Also do I chuck out the eggs for a certain amount of days?
My hen has just recovered from sour crop and when I went to shut them in she had white froth all over her beak. I read that someone lost a rooster who started doing this because he had eaten a beetle and today I saw this hen eat a massive black beetle, so could this be why? How do I help her if...
My hen has really smelly breath and had a white fluid coming out her mouth yesturday. It's midday and when I felt her crop it felt like a waterbloon, but doesn't seem too swallen. She seems quite happy and is eating and drinking (I've feed her yoghurt, grit, acv and water and bread soaker in...
I noticed today that one of my hens is breathing out her mouth and has a clear white fluid coming out of it. She also shook her head and tons came out. She also has gone bald underneath and below her vent which has also gone very red and by the looks of it swollen ( it has been like this for...
Found this egg in the coop today. It wasn't cracked open, but when I did this was in it and there wasn't a yolk in it. We have been having a lot of squishy eggs at the moment and also very bumpy ones. Also out of 6 hens were only getting around 2 eggs a day! They do have an infestation of lice...
I was checking over my hens the other day and noticed two of my hens had big round scabs under their bellys in almost exactly the same place! We do have a rooster, could he be doing this?
I have 2 bantam/sultan chicks and one speckled sussex/sultan, but I'm quite confused on what they are turning out to be because the three of them all feathered up really quick, within the first week or so. but now there almost 3 weeks old the bantams look like they are growing wattles and they...
These three chicks are all just over one week old. They are mixed with bantam/sultan and speckled sussex/sultan.
Hoping you can help from looking at photo's with the gender.
Thanks
These were the chicks we hatched last year and are both the same age. The cockerel is on the left and hen on the...
My broody hen is sat on 2 eggs and one of them made a pip around 11.00 last night. You can see the chicks beak very well, but its been like that all day and hasn't changed. The membrane inside the egg has stuck to half of the chick including an eye and half of its nose. its now been around 14...