Okay everyone - I bought a rubber stamp handle with a custom saying on it for my egg cartons, however, I practiced using it on some of my eggs to see what it would look like. From the information I have gathered, I will not continue to use the ink pad to stamp my eggs, HOWEVER, I want to know...
Hi everyone! One of my hens has gone broody. She was a rescue so I have no idea how old she is (young, if I had to guess), what breed she is, or if she has done this before. I currently have two coops in my backyard. The smaller coop is the one that this particular hen is in along with another...
I have 7 hens and 1 rooster, 3 of the hens are laying and just about a year old. The other 4 pullets are 5 months old. My original flock was fed a 50:50 ratio of Natures Best organic egg layer crumbles and Manna Pro All Flock with probiotic. Since the new pullets were only a few months old I...
Hello fellow chickeners!
I got a call that animal control had picked up a “rooster” in a town not too far from me, so I offered to pick it up. Lo and behold.... he was actually a she :lau she was seen wandering the streets alone for a few days, and they never saw another chicken with her. Can...
Okay so I want to start by saying that my chickens are my pets and the eggs are just a nice bonus :-) I did a lot of research in the few months that I have had them, but I learn something new everyday. I currently have 3 hens and 1 roo, I did some research on feeding roosters layer feed and I...
I need to buy some baby chicks to raise with my one lone chick. A farm near me has easter egger and white leghorn crosses. The dad was the Easter Egger, anyone have any experience with this cross? Can you post pics? I worry about the leghorn as I have heard they are not the friendliest.
I have read on a few different sites that Ameraucana Lavender hens do not start laying until 6 months of age, but my hen is 7 months now (closer to 8) and she still has not laid an egg. Is this normal?
1 week old baby chick is wheezing and clicking when she breathes, I am going to give her tylan 50 as suggested on BYC but need help administering. Since she is breathing through her mouth how can I be safe administering orally? I am so scared and I don't want to lose her.
They both seem very similar to me and I have been treating my 5 day old baby chick for wry neck. Her neck is not twisted backwards like most cases I have seen, but she walks backwards, loses balances, and her head spins in a circle. She is still eating and drinking on her own and I am giving her...
Hi all...me again, with the worst luck ever! I had one baby chick hatch out of 6 fertile eggs placed, with the help of some of you lovely people we have diagnosed her with wry neck and I have been treating her for that with Poultry Nutri-Drench, vitamin e capsules, and selenium. When I take her...
I swear this stuff saved my baby chick that probably wouldn’t have made it. She was extremely lethargic, wouldn’t move or pick her head up, no eating or drinking.. a drop of this stuff every couple hours perked her right up! Just wanted to share with all of you, if you don’t have this - GET IT !
I bought two silver laced wyandottes today 1 1/2 wks old. Brought them home and put them in the brooder (drive home was an hour). I put the two baby chicks in the brooder and they just laid there, I figured they were just tired and not used to their environment. About an hour later the one...
I had one chick hatch out of 4 eggs :-( it desperately needs a friend and no one around me is selling chicks at this time as it is not our "season" for chicks. Hopefully someone on here can help.
Hi everyone! I am interested to see what breed you all think my chickens are :) I don't know that they are one breed in particular, if you ask me, they look like a mix of a little bit of everything! I am at the end of my first hatch and I need to keep myself occupied soooo here goes...
I was...
Hello all, I am looking for any advice from experience using brinsea incubators. I had a horrible first hatch in my little giant still air incubator due to inexperience and apparently a horrible incubator ..0%. I am determined to never experience this grief again so I purchased the Brinsea mini...
This is my first time hatching eggs. I had my humidity way too high for the beginning of incubation due to my incubator humidity percentage reading way lower than it actually was. It wasn’t until about day 12 that I realized the humidity was WAY too high. I quickly emptied the incubator of all...