I typed that into google and definitely did not learn much about chickens!
We incubated a batch of eggs and only ended up with a single chick, an nice little bantam. How do we deal with this? He's about a month old now and has a warm spot next to the run for the rest of the birds. Obviously...
We have 16 hens in 300ft^2. They are a mix of 6 month old and 18 month olds. We were typically getting about 8 to 10 eggs a day at the beginning of the summer and now it is more like 3 to 5. I would have expected things to be improving since the younger chicks should be coming 'on line'...
We have a flock of 11 chickens and 3 roosters. We've had the flock for about 18 months. Just recently one of the chickens started brooding. We thought it might be interesting to let the kids see a natural hatch so we let it go on. I've noticed that we have very few eggs being laid. Being...
So I have read ALL of the posts about not helping and am prepared not to... but this case doesn't seem to match what I've read.
This chick has fully pipped, I can see him breathing and he is peeping like crazy. About half the shell is broken away, but where it is broken there is a crusty...