Just got a couple of blue skates from a friend and have the quarantined, but noticed one of them is pooping green with yellow. They don’t appear to be sick, not listless, head not drooling down. He did mention that the only thing he was feeding them was chicken scratch and deer corn. Could the...
Someone recently gave me a 1 yr old turken bantam hen and about a week earlier she developed either sinusitis or corzya...good thing I kept her seperate from my others. I noticed she is not very heavy at all and upon searching for mites through her feathers, noticed this odd growths under the...
I'm starting to worry about my little flock of bantams now that it's getting hotter. I have placed an oscilating fan inside the coop, but still seems really hot for them. Any ideas on what to give them or how to keep them cool during the summer? I found one dead yesterday and she seemed to be...
My mom currently resides in a little town (Banquete, TX) which is unincoroporated...we do not have our own police dept (except county) and I'm not able to find out anything about chicken ordinances. We have a few chickens that like to fly out of our large coral and our neighbors who just moved...
I currently have a small flock of white, black, blue, and cuckoo turken bantams. Looking to expand flock by buying some additional birds. Anyone know where I can find some?
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Desperately tryin to find out what is happening w my poor bantams. I live in South Texas and we have been experiencing 100 plus degree heat and think this is affecting my bantams. It's the same scenario w different chickens of different ages. First seems to start w watery eyes and sneezing and...
Came home from work today to see two baby chicks running around in the incubator, but one appears to have a very small portion of the egg yolk visible under it's belly. Is this normal? Baby chick dried off...what do I do? Any help is appreciated!!
As the subject line states, this is my first time incubating eggs and I am stressing out as I don't think my temp is correct for the bantam araucana eggs I have started to incubate. Humidity is currently at 55% which seems to be good according to everything I have read, but my temp has...