Hello. My elderly buff orpington has been having some issues.
Last week I noticed yolk coming out of her behind... There's been a couple of shellless eggs too. She's had a pretty muckky butt this week.
This morning she's all hunched up and has poop all over her. It's coming out like brown...
Hello, we hatched these from a box of eggs off Craigslist. They're a barnyard mix which makes it difficult because I don't know what breed I'm looking at to know if it's normal for them to have big combs.
Here's my guess... what do you think?
#1 - Roo
#2 - Roo... but I Really want it to be...
This is Lightning... he's definitely a motivated eater but his stomach is HUGE!! They go out on pasture all day and we give them a handful of grain each in the morning. He's had this big belly for a few weeks... it's a lot worse when they come in from the pasture at night. It's as tight as...
Hello, I'm thinking about trying to breed black sexlink Cochins with a red roo and barred hen. I would like to get partridge and birchen hens, would either of these breed sexlinks?
I can't even begin to tell you how bad this is ... We had approximately 70 chickens, mostly this year's hatchings ... 3 new built coops, all new equipment, just ran electric and water to the coops...and poof! Marek's! I took some dead ones to get necropsy and had it confirmed.
To start with I...
I have a few young roosters about 14 weeks old who have very pale combs and legs. They are very skinny but seem to eat well. They seem a little lethargic maybe but not terribly noticeable. I have also noticed that their butts are a little messy, not terrible but just not very clean. They don't...
This chick is 9 weeks old and has female coloring but a red comb...is this pointed sickles too? Easter egger
This is also 9 weeks old olive egger... very female coloring but are these pointed sickles?
A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my hens wasn't very active but she seemed to be eating and drinking and behaving normal...then she started just standing around, then her tail dropped...now her wings have dropped. I felt her all over today and she's VERY skinny...all bones.
She's still...
This egg comes from a chicken I just got (see the story in the link below). I'm seeing something that looks like a spider web in that glob of stuff ... what on earth?!!! I'm hoping this is normal and it's not some nasty worms...
Last night I went to buy what I thought was going to be a rooster and 3 hens. I was expecting to see healthy 1.5 year old birds.... but I was SHOCKED!! These chickens were bare!! They have been living in a shed with 2 hens per rooster ..I think they had 15 roos and 30 hens originally! The...
Last night I went to buy what I thought was going to be a rooster and 3 hens. I was expecting to see healthy 1.5 year old birds.... but I was SHOCKED!! These chickens were bare!! They have been living in a shed with 2 hens per rooster ..I think they had 15 roos and 30 hens originally! The...
Please help me sex these. I was under the impression that dark red wing patches indicated males ...now I'm seeing dark red in the barred feathered chicks...
#1 - 4 week old.
#2 - 4 week old.
#3 - 4 week old
#4 - 6 week old
I just posted on the egg laying post because I had some pale yolks with dark spots ...now I just found this and I'm freeking out!
Is this a worm?!! And what on earth should I do about it?!!