I'm wanting to know when it's safe to sell my juveniles? We had cocci spread through the chicks from new juveniles I had bought about a month and a half ago. They've all been treated and have fully recovered. I breed and sell chickens, and I'm wondering if it's safe to sell these now? None are...
5 of the chicks I hatched from my blue English Orpingtons were black. 3 of them are solid black, 2 of them are black with white flecks all over. It's driving me crazy not being able to figure this out. Is this common? Is mottling like a genetic mutation thing (like frizzles) or is it a...
I have blue orpington chickens. (I breed blue to blue so I get blue/black/splash) I hatcched my first set of chicks from them on Easter day. They are a month old now, I hatched 6 black 4 blue and 1 splash. When the feathers started coming in on two of the blacks they had white tips on the ends...
I have two cuckoo maran roosters, (thought I had a hen and roo, but nope, both roos). I raised them from chicks, one has just recently started mating the hens and crowing. He is extremely aggressive and dominating. He is the prettiest of the two roosters though. The other rooster hasn't fully...
I have a pair of mille de fleur d'uccles and I'd like to sell hatching eggs/chicks from them when they're old enough (only around 4 months now) My mille hen is so tiny compared to my full size rooster (splash maran) I only have one coop so they are all together. I want to keep my full size...
This is my first time ever trying to hatch eggs. I have a foam incubator, I've read "dry incubating" is best so that's what I've done. Today was day 18, I removed the turners, and laid the eggs flat on the incubator. I added water and increased the heat just a little because it was a little...
After reading so much contradicting opinions and facts on wether or not to use a light in the coop, I decided that since my hens had already been completely through the molting process and Since i hated to think of how cold they were, I put a light in the coop and left in on from about December...
I'm not going to treat my chickens with medicines. I wanted to know if there is a way to treat them naturally. I have ACV in their water and have them rice/cayenne/hot sauce for three days. I'm not sure if its coccidiosis or something else. Our local vet doesn't treat chickens. Please let me...
I have new hens who I think got coccidiosis Only one hen ever acted sick and I gave them rice/hot sauce/cayenne mix for three days now they have blood in their poop. I'm thinking its coccidiosis. I just called our vet and they said he doesn't treat chickens. I don't have any intentions of...