Has anyone ever seen weird toes like this? This little one was born yesterday with outside toes extra short and flipped up with no toenail. Is there a name for this?
We are from north east so its really cold up here. Our chickens free range and we leave a heat light in the coop. This morning we found a maran lying outside the coop on her side. She was so cold, we brought her in and she's been napping by the wood stove for about an hour. She's standing...
I have bought baby chicks to raise before. But this is my first time breeding, hatching, and raising right from my farm. These chicks had wing feathers at 2 and 3 days old. I never noticed this in the other batches I've purchased in the past. In fact if I remember right, it took a month to...
Its summer here, and the temps and humidity are all over the place. I don't have air conditioning, so my house temp varies a lot. Which is not good for keeping constant temp in some bators. I got home from work one day, and when chicks were ready to hatch, the temp in the bator was too high...