This chick hatched a little less than 48 hours ago during the night. I found him in the morning flopping around and laying on his back. Not my first rodeo with flip-floppers like that, and I had another one that kept winding up on his back so I followed my usual protocol of putting them in chick...
Just a barnyard mix out of an olive egg a friend from church gave me, I asked her and she said none of her chickens have crazy ear feathers like this lol. It's only on one side of his head. His name is Chief Crazy Hair. Thoughts?????
This spring we made a hoop coop tractor to raise some meat birds in. After we butchered the meat birds I hatched out some chicks and they are currently in the hoop coop. We had intentions of building an actual coop but we hit a few snags this summer that unfortunately consumed most of our time...
Sorry if this should be posted elsewhere, it's not really an emergency, but wasn't sure if the nutrition forum was where I should post this or here, if I need to move it please let me know! :)
I have a little crossbeak chick that is a couple of months old. The last couple of weeks he has been...
Well I just got off the phone with Texas A&M diagnostics lab - I had sent in a hen that died after having some sort of respiratory issue. I have been stressing and obsessing over whether or not my flock has MG since they got sick with some sort of respiratory illness last winter and I was...
Symptoms:
Mucus in both eyes
Swelling around both eyes (one more than the other)
Lethargy
Fever
Some white gunk I can't seem to get out in the corner of her eyes
No respiratory issues that I can tell
She smells kinda of like a horse does which is weird....
What I've done so far:
Isolated her...
Well I have a hen, now named BB (Broke Beak), a few weeks ago I noticed that she had a split in her beak. I did some searching on the forums but was still unsure of what to do with her. I decided to trim each side, since the split was all splayed out and had gotten rather long. I used dog...
This is my first turkey to raise in about 18 years, so please bear with me while I re-learn some turkey stuff lol. I have a turkey who I am assuming is a tom, his name is Todd, after my beloved childhood turkey. He is very friendly and has been raised with my chickens. He is about 15ish weeks...
I have someone who is regularly laying some big 'ol double yolkers. For peeps and giggles I decided to put one under my broody. I had not really read anything about hatching double yolkers until yesterday when I decided to do some research and I discovered that the hatch rate was pretty poor...
I got this guy out of the "Wyandotte" tub at TSC, HOWEVER, I am pretty sure that aint what he is! I had a few EE out of that batch I got and I am starting to think they should have put "Specialty" on that tub instead of Wyandottes... this guy looks like my EE in color but his comb is not the...
Can anyone confirm for me that this is a silver laced wyandotte pair? I am pretty sure about the pullet, but not the cockerel.
Thank you in advance! :)
I just wanted to confirm that these two pullets were d'uccles, the one looked like a mille fleur as a chick, but she does not have any coloring to her. The other looks like a blue to me but I just wanted to hear from someone with experience lol. Thank you in advance!
I did some searching here on the forums but most everything I found was about getting RID of fire ants.... I had a chick get stuck in a really strange place, still not sure how she did it, but when I found her this morning, ants had literally started trying to eat her alive. They mostly got...
Well last week I got a new batch of chicks at TSC. I had a little runt in the batch and after watching her like a hawk the first day, I realized she couldn't see, I assumed she was totally blind. Her little eyes were sunk in, and she just stood there looking around in a manner in which I've...
I have been doing some researching but everything seems to be aimed more towards people who have runs that are covered. I have two pens that don't free range with the rest of the chickens, one is a bachelor pad and the other is my Silkie pen. They have one of those metal storage buildings for...
What I want to know is if these guys are Ameraucana, or EE.
I'm sorry these are not the best pics, they wouldn't be still for their close up!
This is Big Red and Goose. Goose (the grey one) looks awful dark in these pics, but he is such a beautiful color. Would be considered a "blue"...
I got some chicks at tractor supply on Wednesday and I got a couple of runts in my group. One of them I have come to the conclusion, is blind. Her eyes do not appear well developed, they are sunk in, and she just plain ol acts like she cannot see. At first I thought maybe she was dehydrated and...
I don't remember by other buff orps having these darker colored bars running down either side of their backs? They were solid colored. Maybe I'm just losing it lol. Are these buff orps? Or are they another breed? I have been looking online but can't figure it out!
Here is a close up of...
Well, i have a hen named Blondie who I have been fighting for several months now. She is always going broody, but our roosters were not old enough until recently, so we had no fertile eggs. Well, a week or two ago, long story short, I found her sitting on a nest under my carport. The worst...
I found this earlier ..... Chicken Seeds It is an adult coloring book with "chicken seeds" in vintage seed packets. I want to order it SOOOOo bad!!
Here was an example page. I LOVE to color! I got a book called Animorphia a couple weeks ago, the roosters were the first thing I colored...