Hello I’m curious about these black spots on my meat chickens beak and comb is this dangerous? And since they are meat chickens are they still edible? One of my other chickens got it too recently is it super contagious? What is it. Should I be worried?
I have 17 hens that aren’t eating they do this to the food they seem healthy. They are about 5 months old I switch them to layer feed both crumbles and pellets. But they won’t eat it. It is hot here in Texas about 100 right now they have plenty of water and shade but I don’t understand why they...
Hello I had 18 baby chicks in a storage container for about 2 weeks with a heat lamp. Last night I put them in new coop wich is a lot bigger and I put the heat lamp in a corner, is this a bad idea? When I woke up this morning they were all scattered and cold and one was dead 😔. I put their food...
Hello guys so I have a little giant still air incubator 9300. I did my first batch and hatched 10 of 12 eggs I did notice the humidity was always off but now I tried to warm it up for a second batch and it doesn’t warm up like it should. I have it set to 102 like the first time. It reads 102 but...
Hello guys, so I am doing a compost pile for the first time and I’ve noticed it has been overwhelmed by ants I’m not sure what I am doing wrong I don’t want to let my chickens at it to till it and get eaten up by the ants. What can I do? Or is this normal?
I do put scraps like bell pepers...
Hello guys, so I’ve been doing a lot of readership about incubating my own eggs and have learned a lot from you guys and from YouTube. I bought me a still air incubator, my problem is that the temperature for haticng chicken eggs is 99.5 but the still air incubator instructions tell me that if...
Hello I have a young olive Egger that went broody for her first time. I moved her to a private area away from flock. She’s been sitting on the eggs for 7 days now. I went to candle the eggs and noticed that they were poopy. They were clean when she started and noticed that she won’t get up to...
Hello everyone, so I have 6 hens that are laying right now but I have 2 that are laying tiny eggs almost the same size of a guinea egg or Maby a bit smaller. The 2nd image is comparing it to a normal size olive egg. This has been going on for atleast 2 months now. Is there something I need to...
Hello everyone, I notice one of my hens acting a little weirder than normal she would be sitting on the ground for long periods of time witch she never does. When I went in there to check she started flapping and couldn’t get up, she kept falling to the side she is very week and won’t eat or...