I have a Bantam hen who is laying cracked eggs. The eggs look like they cracked inside of her while the shell was being made and then repaired the crack. I don’t think this is a good thing, why is this happening?
Will post pictures soon
One of my newly hatched chicks is weak and won't open its eyes or lift its head, the other one that hatched the same time as it is doing fine. I really like this chick, it's my only gray one and it's one of the few from my favorite hen. Please pray
My 3 year old rooster pumpkin has two ear infections! :hit
I know this is bad. Cause two years ago my 3 year old rooster Wilbur died from an ear infection in February! We treated Wilbur by cleaning his ear out everyday and putting peroxide in it but it didn't work. What should I do!!! :hit :hit :hit
I want to make a new breed of chicken with green eyes. Last year I bred my buff brahma bantam rooster to my mottled Cochin bantam hen. Two out of two eggs hatched, one was a pullet the other was a cockerel.
They were all black until they got their adult feathers, then they got some reddish...
My chickens all seem happy, and healthy. They run around without gasping. The one year olds all have scraggly feathers this year.
But sometimes when they struggle they gasp. One of them will yawn over and over just standing there. Today one was pecked and afterwards she stood still with her head...
I got a fairy egg two or three days ago, I think it's from a bantam. The same day my Mille Fluer D'Uccle hen went broody, she's been broody before but I didn't let her hatch chicks. I gave the fairy egg to her to hatch.
And for those of you who don't know, a fairy egg is an abnormally small egg...
A year ago my white Cochin bantam hen Marshmallow had Bumblefoot on the middle of both of her feet. I cured it. Now, her scars have opened up and there are scabs but I don't think it's Bumblefoot.
Recently 3 other chickens got it. They are the oldest ones I have, they are 5, 5, and 3 years old...
Ginger, my golden laced Wyandotte hen is 5 years old, she has had a bum leg for a couple years so when she runs she gallops. She gets around fine, it doesn't seem to bother her, today I noticed her bad foot has some black/brown stuff on it. At first I thought it was bumblefoot but it's not one...
I got partridge Cochin bantam chicks yesterday from purely poultry and I want to see all of your partridge Cochins! They are so cute!
And here are all the chicks they came with
My Cochin bantam currently has four, 7 week-old chicks that she hatched herself. I am expecting an order of 15 chicks any day now.
My question is: can I switch the new chicks with Marshmallows chicks? Will she accept the younger ones?
They don't chirp for mama when she is not around but if...
I just found a scab about the size of a nickel on my bantam buff brahma hens crop area. I didn't do anything with it, she seems fine, acting normal. Is it possible she cut it open?
I crossed a buff brahma bantam roo over a mottled Cochin bantam hen. I've been doing some research and it seems like the boys would have pea combs and the girls would have single combs?
These are the two chicks I got out of it, they don't have names yet... ;)
In 2011 I asked my mom if we could get chickens eventually her and my dad said yes so we started choosing breeds from Murray McMurray hatchery. The black australorps were especially pretty and I wanted some Cochins too but my mom said their feathered feet would get all poopy.
Eventually we...
So, Dec 1, I found a very tiny bantam egg on the floor of the chicken coop. I blew it out and there was no yolk in it.
(Left to right) store egg, mini egg, bantam egg.
Four days ago I found another mini egg outside, on the ice. The temperature was above freezing so IF it had a yolk, and IF it...
My chicken, pearls, has a bump in the corner of her eye and if the light shines a certain way her pupil will be white, i think she can still see out of it. I looked up chicken eye cancer on google and some pictures of children with a white pupil showed up, that's what her eye looks like.
What...
So a few months ago I was sitting in the yard with my bantam chicks (about half grown) and one of the chicks made a warning noise so I looked up and this hawk goes gliding past and into the woods. I was pretty scared so I put them all away after that.
Well today, the bantams are full gown and it...
I know that hens can turn into boys when there is no rooster present but that is not the case here.
I have a white bantam Cochin hen named Marshmallow, she is about two years old. Well, today I watched her mate another hen (Muffin)! There is a rooster that has access to all the hens I have and...
Hey everyone, I didn't see a Mille Fluer thread out there and I thought I would start one!
If you have a Mille fluer post pics and stories and have fun!