Hello, I have a bantam cochin chicken, I got her in April when she was a few days old and have been raising her since. Last month she hit the six-month mark and I was expecting her to start laying. We did give her a few more of her own kind in September. We did a sort of decontamination period...
Hello, I have some pheasants that are sneezing between 3-5 times per minute. After they sneeze they keep their mouth open and shake their heads. They also have this gunk around their eyes. I am not sure what to do. I am thinking it could be gape mouth, but with the gunk around their eyes, I am...
Hello my pheasants started sneezing and I was wondering if it could be an infection, but I am not so sure. It has recently gotten cold up here so could they just have a little "cold".
Hi I have a problem! I hatched 6 little pheasant chicks but that same day I got about 30 chicks. I put the peasants with them a day after they hatched thinking they will be fine. Next morning one is dead and the other one has something wrong with it's leg and does not like to move. I moved it to...
Hi there I just got 4 chicks that are six days old and their wing feathers are just starting to grow, but they look like normal feathers. I know that they might change, but I am concerned that I may have gotten ripped off. they have black beaks, skin, legs with feathers on them and five toes...
Hi I have a four week old black chick that we got from tsc when he was little. he has a few other friends but lately he has been eating a lot more and more tired. he has this lump by the end of his neck and it is kind of squishy. We feed them Sprout chick starter feed, they have fresh water that...
We have about 12 female ringneck pheasants and 4 males. We find 2-4 eggs scattered around their enclosure.Where we have them now it's between 30-40 degrees fahrenheit during the day and around 20 in the night. We do not know when they were laid, but is it worth to incubate them? If so what temp...
My chicks were suppose to start hatching tomorrow, but I got 4 that hatched TODAY! How long should I keep them in the incubator till I take them out and put them with a heat lamp? Plus I got a mix set so I do not know what they are. I know the rules of lock down but I am not sure that they can...
Hello I am in a locked down incubator just locked it down yesterday and my humidity is 59%, but there is condensation on the windows and I am worried that the humidity is higher than what is told. I have a Little Giant still air incubator and my temp is at 101.6 I do not know what to say and my...
Hello there all I am new to the chicken world and will have new chicks in about 3 days. I have so many questions but a lot of sites do not cover. Thank you all