I have been watching my neighbor’s Guineas for a few day and I asked if I could incubate the eggs I collected and they said I could. So I have been collecting them. But today I found and egg that was laid without a shell(the top egg). It has the membrane around it and feels like rubber to the...
This is Zelda, my buff Orpington, I wasn’t around much yesterday so I don’t know if she had symptoms then, but today when I let her out she very slowly walked to some grass and lay down. She has dried blood around her comb but that could be from some gnat bites because I can’t find a wound on...
i got ten chicks one Wednesday to replace ten that I lost to a dog on Tuesday. I had two hens left and they were both brooding buff orpington so I thought why not try to put chicks under them. I went out and got ten, probably week old or so chicks. One hen abandoned hers so now they are all...
I got home from school today and found that the majority of my chickens had jumped their run, which is unusual for them. After gathering the 10 outside I noticed that one looked strange. At closer inspection I found it had half its face torn off and the skin on the back of its neck.
It acts...