I have two 50 egg incubators. bought in 2019 and only used a few times. $150 each they both come with a egg turner and extra turner racks. they come with large egg racks, universal egg racks and quail egg racks. I have one hydrometer and plastic chick feeder that I will throw in. they come with...
my turkey hen started a fight with a rooster yesterday and he cut her right next to her ear it was bleeding but not to bad but today she is very hot and she has a bump behind her ear but it feels like inflammation in her muscles, I cant feel any liquid in the bump.
My turkey laid a nest and i cracked open two of the broken eggs and I cant exactly tell if they have started development. She wants to be a mom and I don't want to eat her eggs if her babies have started. Her nest was hidden so she was laying on them for a few hours today and yesterday. Ps that...
I have a 10x10 barn I turned into a coop but my ducks get the bedding so muddy I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I can do this, i want to find something that I can clean out Less often. I have been using shavings but it takes a long time to clean it out and it starts to stink really...
So I just hatched this chick it came from a barnevelder egg and the rooster is supposed to be a silver barnevelder but it doesn’t look like a normal silver laced barnevelder it could have come from a brown or silver laced barnevelder
The dad was for sure a silver barnevelder though
so I hatched and bought some goslings last month and they keep inhaling water I had three die because of it has anyone had this problem and how do I make them stop one of them has done it twice already and I have gotten the water out but i just don’t know why they are doing it
so I have some quail chicks and one got out and was running around the house and got some hair around it’s foot and I didn’t realize until now and it’s black and dead will it fall off what should I do
i have three turkeys two toms and a hen I am not eating them they are pets and I wanted to know how much feed per day should they get my hen is a little overweight so I want to start measuring out there feed they get all flock most day and also veggies
i had a buff Brahma hen that I loved she was beautiful I had to put her down last year but I did get some babies out of her and they look almost identical to her and act exactly like her but I don’t have a rooster that looks like them to breed with and I was wondering what would a silver laced...
it’s day 23 of incubation and these three eggs still haven’t hatched my other three did last night but my last brown egg looks weird they all are still alive I have candled and did the float test
Also I should mention this isn’t all three eggs it just two of them but my other one looks the same...
can someone tell me my silkies gender I thought “he” was a boy but I am not sure he is six months old
Do silkies get saddle feathers like normal roosters do
Sorry this is my first time owning silkies so I don’t know
I got home and my rooster had his head down and eyes closed his head is swollen and his mouth had a lot of saliva in it I had another roo that was acting the same way sadly he passed away and has the same things please help
i found my duck acting like she was dying but she isn’t she can’t move her neck or body just her head does anyone know what I can do sadly I can’t take her to the vet but I hope somebody knows what’s wrong
And she can move her body just can’t walk all she is doing is kind of cramping up her...
So I have a isa brown and a mix of other chickens and she started laying but I didn’t know who was laying so I put the eggs in my incubator and I have read that you should not breed isa Browns is this true or not will the chicks have issues or will they be ok
So I was cleaning out my incubator and left it outside for 15 mins to dry and my chickens ate it and my hens just started laying and I really want to hatch the eggs but only have the top of the bator and can’t get one in time to start incubation is there a way I can make a bottom for some I can...
So I bought some Embdens back in September they were all 6 months old that’s what they said but I don’t know but one of them has two black/gray spots on it’s back I don’t know the gender of the geese but I was thinking they all were male I looked it up and some people said there girls had this...
I have four geese and I keep giving them food but they barely eat I am going to try some scratch grain (yes I know it’s not the best for them but they like it) so I will see if they want to eat then but they usually eat all their food in a day or two but they have left their food alone does...