Help! I have 6 silkie chicks about 8 weeks old. I purchased them at 2 weeks old. Just today I have noticed that 3 of them are pooping blood. Its not even bloody poop it is straight blood. They look well and are eating and drinking. 1 appears a bit lethargic but the others seem well at the...
I have had 4 approximately 3 month old pullets die over the past month. I have another one today that is showing symptoms. Very lethargic and not moving legs or walks a bit then falls over and rests. They are very light feeling when I pick them up almost like they have hardly any meat on them...
Can anyone give some advice on what to do for my ameraucana hen. Her one eye is very watery and has a flesh colored lump at her bottom eyelid. She seems healthy otherwise. None of my other chickens have this issue.
I've got a bunch of 10 day old chicks that hatched out from my barnyard mix of chickens (leghorn, Rhode island red and mixed breeds) I have a white crested black polish rooster and a pure ameraucana. Was hoping to hatch out a bunch of Easter eggers with my ameraucana but looks like they are...
Hello! I recently hatched some black cooper marans and pure ameraucana. My plan is to cross breed them for olive colored eggs. I am wondering if it would be better for the rooster to be a marans or an ameraucana. I will have hens from each just wondering which rooster would be best to keep...
Posted this On the chicks forum and they thought maybe someone here could help me out...
We are raising both cornish rock giants and brown leghorns. They were all doing perfect until yesterday when the cornish rock giants suddenly started dying. They almost look too heavy to stand and gasp for...
We are raising both cornish rock giants and brown leghorns. They were all doing perfect until yesterday when the cornish rock giants suddenly started dying. They almost look too heavy to stand and gasp for air while lying down. One of them almost seemed paralyzed and layed down stiff. We have...