We ordered from Meyers for the first time. We've been raising chicks for 3 years and have never had any issues with deaths in our brooder setup. Ordered 46 from Meyers, shipped Monday afternoon & picked up at post office wednesday at lunch. 3 arrived dead in the box, 2 more died over night and...
We ordered from Meyers for the first time. We've been raising chicks for 3 years and have never had any issues with deaths in our brooder setup. Ordered 46 from Meyers, shippes Monday afternoon & picked up at post office wednesday at lunch. 3 arrived dead in the box, 2 more died over night and...
AHH! Went to move eggs to lockdown on day 18 today and realized as we were moving them that 1 had already pipped :eek: alot were internally pipped as well when we candled them as we moved to lockdown. Sure hope they don't shrink wrap. Couldn't believe it!
2yo hen visibly gasping and labored breathing and making a very loud 'bgawk' sound frequently as she breathes. No bubbles, discharge, sneezing, liquid anything else respiratory related apparent. Appeared healthy yesterday.
Noticed this chicken off by herself yesterday acting sick but couldn't see anything visibly wrong with her. Isolated her just to keep an eye on her and today she looks like this 😬😳 super swollen eye/face and her eye when open looks red. Any suggestions?
Our weather has been brutally hot the last 3 weeks and when I checked my broody's pen this AM for food/water she had a freshly hatched chick under her 😳😳😳 It's ONLY DAY 18 which means it started pipping yesterday day 17 at some point. Hope it's ok!!
I've noticed that when our temperatures are high during summer hatches as opposed to spring hatches my broody hens seem to have less successful hatches and we end up with more shrink wrapped chicks 😥 Any one else?
What would you expect to pay for 4 week old straight run chicks? Barred rocks, new Hampshire reds, speckled Sussex. Some are clearly boys but some I'm not sure about. We're selling them this weekend at a swap.
I have a 3 year old Americauna who has had a chronic respiratory problem for almost a year. It goes through cycles of better/worse/better/worse...She usually has eye bubbles and when its worse she has ALOT of bubbles and obvious copious amounts of nasal discharge with sneezing. She's been...
I noticed this evening one of my 6week old Swedish Flower chick's toes looked very unusual. I don't recall them looking anything like this a few days ago and the other chicks appear fine. I gave him/her nutridrench this evening. Any ideas? Vitamin deficiency? Injury?
Had an apparently healthy 2yr old hen suddenly die so had a necropsy. Turned out to be peritonitis but fecal test had this info...what does the 1900 epg mean?
We live on 4acres of old farm land...farm fields on 3 sides and a housing development on 1 side. One of our neighbors in the development also has chickens on their small postage size stamp yard. We're friendly with them, their son comes over to play with our kids, we've let them throw tree...
We bought 8 leghorn chicks from TSC on Tuesday evening, all appeared healthy and normal. Yesterday afternoon I found 1 dead in the broader and a 2nd one this afternoon. What the heck! 1st time ever buying TSC chicks and I am not impressed. We've raised our own hatched chicks for 2 years so I...
My 1yo hen's legs scales seem to be just coming off! The scales still on arent raised up like scaly leg mites. Any ideas on cause or treatment? No sign of mites on her legs and skin on legs looks normal.
We have had chickens for over 2 years and today got a letter complaining our coop is less than 100ft from property lines. We have 4 acres but its a narrow long rectangle and no matter where we put it the coop is less than 100 feet from a left or right property line. We're trying to figure out...