My Rooster, who is almost 2 that I hatched and raised myself, attacks EVERYONE except me. If anyone comes near me when I’m outside with them, he goes at them instantly. He jumps on my back and lays down, and also lays on my lap. He’s never hurt me. Why is he so mean to everyone else except me...
This isn’t something I want to do as I love this roo so much, but only having 3 hens and 2 roosters, it’s not working out since both males want to fight. :( I want him to go to a home that will keep him as a pet and not cull him or kill him, and perhaps I could visit him every now and then. He’s...
My little babes are almost 4 months old. Where does the time go? :hitHere we have Willie (barred rock rooster) Eggbert (grey Easter ‘Egger’ rooster), and me hens: Pippy (has a slightly deformed comb) Zippy (perfect comb), and Yolkie! :p
I have 5, 5 week old chicks. They all have tons of feathers and are doing amazing. However they are getting too big for their brooder in the house. I was wondering will they be okay outside in their new coop? The lowest temp at night is going to be 66-62 this week and I was wondering, is that...
My red bourbon turkey hen is broody and sitting 3 eggs. One egg is way farther along then the other 2. Egg 1. Is at about r12-15 days and the other eggs aren’t even at 5. What do I do since one will hatch earlier than the others? Will I have to self incubate the last 2? Do I take baby 1 from mom...
I have 5, day old chicks in my brooder. All are doing extremely well, however my one barred rock wants to keep chirping really loudly. They’re eating and drinking like normal and have a full crop. What could this be? I’m very worried. I checked for pasty butt and there wasn’t any and the temp is...
:jumpy:celebrate5 out of my 6 incubated eggs hatched yesterday and all babies are doing great. YAY! But I was wondering, will their eye color change? They’re dark brown right now and I was wondering if they’ll stay the same or turn yellow? Just a curious question. :) :wee
I have 4 hatched chicks in my Magicfly Janoel 12 so there’s not much room. There running around and starting to peck at each other. They’re not fully dry but for the most part they are. There’s still one egg pipping and I don’t know what to do. Should I move them to the brooder so they have more...
I have 6 chicken eggs incubating at the moment. It’s day 20, and my one egg has externally pipped at 7 A.M. and it’s now 11:17 am and it hasn’t hatched. How long after an external pip can it take for them to hatch? He was chirping a lot earlier and now chirps here and there. I also noticed...
So far my incubators temp has been running very smoothly. I have 4 thermometers that all read the same before which was a perfect 99.5-100. Now suddenly it wants to go up to 100.6-101. I have a Magicfly Janoel 12 auto egg incubator forced air. Humidity is 40%. My room temp is 75-77 but my...
I have 2 Hydrometers in my incubator, a magicfly one and a repltile tank one, and both read 70% at day 10. I then checked my incubator and there is literally only about 1/4 teaspoon of water in the bottom. How is it reading that high when so little water is in it? Or is 1/4 teaspoon to much? Is...
My humidity was at a steady 55%, but my cat bumped my arm when I was adding more water, caused me to add more water than needed and now it’s at 67%. I’m on day 7, will this hurt the chicks? What should I do? All help is appreciated!
I already lost one egg, now I’m down to 6 so I’m hoping this isn’t a blood ring. All other eggs have movement but I didn’t see anything in this one. :( I just recently loss 4 eggs at day 20 from my old incubators heat element going out so I hope this isn’t a blood ring. :hit:barnie
It was a very warm August day. The sun was shining, clouds looked like puffed cotton balls floating in the sky. And I had just gotten back from subway with my favorite sub. It was 1 in the afternoon, and I usually keep my turkeys in their coop during this time since it’s veggie time, but I...
Hello everyone! My name is Allivia and I’m new here but here’s some things about me! :)
1) I’ve owned chickens and other poultry my whole life. Sadly tho, I had a house fire in 2012 and someone stole my ducks, some chickens and let the rest of them out of the coop and they were attacked by a...