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We got our first real snow today (northern Utah) and we went to go check on our chickens. All of them were fine in the coop, save one--one of the gold sex link hens. She was wobbling around with her eyes closed. She's in the house now. She's alive and breathing, but not responding...
Okay, first of all, I thought I had purchased all pekins, but three of them are, apparently, fawn and white runners.
Here's the real problem, though.
One of the runners keeps tripping over himself, can't seem to pick himself up for a few moments, and then will get up and run with the others...
We have had six pekin ducks for a few weeks now. All six seemed to be fine--excepting the one. S/he acted fine all the time, but her beak has always been a dark purple color.
This morning, she started acting strangely--walking off-balance, falling over, et c. Within ten minutes, she started...
Hello. I posted ages ago, and now our chicks are 19 weeks old. We want to figure out what sex they all are. They are fed all organic feed and they free range in the yard a lot.
Okay, so here they all are:
Spaghetti:
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Falcon:
One
Two
Three...
I'm very new to the world of chickens. My family and I inherited a few Rhode Island Reds and decided to try our hand with a few Easter Eggers.
I'm the oldest of 10 kids, I'm an animal science major, and I don't the first thing about sexing a chicken.
We were told that we'd be able to sex...