We have around 100 chickens, different breeds, aged 5 months to two years, no new chickens for over 4 months
They are in a 50' x100' run with 2" x 2" net overhead
They are fed Cumberland Mills 16% layer pellets and wheat fodder
Most of the chickens appear to have broken wings or leg so I thought...
I have had 7 turkeys die in the last two days, they are 2 month old BB white turkeys, so far as lll the 1 1/2 year old heritage turkeys are fine and the chickens in adjoining run are fine. I thought it was coccidiosis but now I am not sure, here is picture of the 5th turkey's
liver, blackhead...
I have been able to incubate out some Cream Legbar and Rhodebar chickens. I plan on selling trios in the spring. They are from the Greenfire line but I don't have the certificates. How do you price the chickens? We also have RIR and White Leghorn. You can buy RIR day old chicks for $1-2.00 all...
My 4 month old RIR hens leg is dead from the notch down, it was caught under the tractor. She is doing fine, hops around without any problems, eats well. She tries to stand on the foot sometimes and falls over.
Should I:
1. leave it alone
2. amputate
3. butcher her
4. amputate and carve her a...
Okay, this might be a stupid question. If a chicken lays one egg a day for 2 weeks and sits on them how come they all hatch at the same time? The eggs are 1-14 days old to start so if day 14 egg was hatched at day 21 it would only be 1 week old and day 1 egg would be 5 weeks old, I am confused...