I have noticed my black sex link eggs have turned white. Myself and daughter have noticed that the yellow is speckled with blood and looks like chunks of egg shell or something. She opened one and said it looked cloudy and smelly. It was laid the day before. I have 2 sexlinks so don't know...
About a week ago I noticed one chicken sneezing and sounded like coughing. We had our first snow and they were molting. I kept them in their 10x10 pen for a couple of days. Now 3 are now sneezing but no discharge in their nose. They are eating good but it seems like they may all (6) get...
My chickens are molting and it is raining hard. Should I leave them in 10x10 (6 chickens) or let them out? Also it is going to be in the 30's this week. I enclosed the pen with thick clear plastic and left ventilation gaps for them, They are on feather fixer along with their food
A store manager gave us a large bag of veggie and flower seeds from Burpee and I was wondering since they won't sprout would it hurt my chickens? Burpees are GMO free seeds and I don't think coated with anything.
I have 2 coo coo morans ( I don't know how to spell them) but anyway, they molted in Oct. and stopped laying eggs. It is now nearing end of Jan and still no eggs. How long does it take for them to start laying again and is there anything I can give them to start laying? They are fully...
I have 6 chickens born on March 1, 2016. 5 of them are laying. The black sex link Lucy has always been sweet but since she started laying she has began pecking at the other chickens and if I pet another chicken she comes over and pecks my hand really hard. Is she trying to be a rooster? LOL...
June 1st we purchased 8 ducklings. They were supposed to be sexed. As they matured I thought I was lucky and got 2 drakes and 6 females. As each day passed another duck had a tail feather curl up. By the end of 2 wks I ended up with 6 drakes and 2 females. I am having problems with the...
I got my baby ducks June 1st 2015 and they are reaching maturity. I noticed when filling the pond the males are torturing each other and getting rough with the girls. I have never had ducks so all this is new to me. When I ordered these ducks they were supposed to be sexed and were not. Now...