I live in southern California and have witnessed my chickens that hatched this December throw up a clear fluid twice. We are livin in some pretty intense heat so i don't know if htat has anything to do with it. Also their egg production is good, so whatever it is, its not affecting that.
whats...
My chickens hatched the day after christmas, and i'm starting to wonder when i will be able to get eggs from them... also, they don't seem to be going into the coop like they should, they seem to like outside better. How do i get them to nest in the nesting box's??
i have a silkie that hatched from its egg yesterday. One of its legs goes in an outward direction, beause of this he is unable t o walk, so he scoolts him /herself on the "good" leg. i've done research and i can't seem to diagnose or come up with a treatment. the other chicks are already...
i had a chicken hatch last night anothe one over night. today being the 21st day of incubation. the first born is still wet after that whole night. the new one even looks dryer than it. should i worry?
i am on the 20th day of incubation. and this morning, when i went to check on the eggs, i could here a quiet chirp from inside the incubator. it only sounded like it was coming from one egg though, is there anything else i should be looking for on the 20th day??
I have been incubating chicken eggs for a little over a week now and we just candled them for the first time yesterday. on mostly all of them we could see the little embryo jiggling inside the egg, but on a few, we see the dark spot, like in all the others of them, but it seems to be stuck to...
i've been researching breeds to get for my newly built chicken coop. I fell in love with silkies when i started researching them, i need to know if they will do good with other, perhaps bigger, breeds. also it gets really hot in the summer, will this be a prob.?
I live in the San Diego area and i'm almost done building my coop. I want to buy chicks now, but it seems the 2 places a called won't have chickens in for atleast another 2 weeks. are there no chicks for sale this time of year? any advice??