Help please! I just acquired 2 Turkey chicks. Google identified them as royal palm turkeys.
We have chickens and muscovy ducks. But I know nothing about Turkeys.
These 2 have no feathers on their heads yet, and are about double the size of my 5 week old chicks.
Is there anything i need to...
I have a 3 day old chick who is barely walking around. It’s mostly just sitting back on its butt with its little feet up. I’m worried. It’s not splayed leg or curled toes, it’s knee joints look a bit swollen compared to the other chicks. What do I do?
Ok quick background... my friend called me as she knows I’ve gotten very into hatching chickens lately and told me.. “I just put some eggs in the incubator that I borrowed from my son, my husband didn’t collect them because they were on the ground, but said they were warm.” she picked up about...
I have a cockerel of unknown exact origins I got it from a friend who said "My hens are all purebred ranging from speckled Sussex,brown leg horn,Americana, and Golden sexlink. Dad is Americana."
His comb unlike the others I got from her is flat, like someone smooshed it. All the others stand...
OK so I got these chickens from a friend, she said "My hens are all purebred ranging from speckled Sussex,brown leg horn,Americana, and Golden sexlink. Dad is Americana."
They are 8 weeks old today. I got 7 from her 5 I'm sure are cocks.
These two, they don't have the big dark comb like the...
I’ve got 7x 8week old chickens that came from a friend, an 4x 7week old chickens that I hatched... when they are outside (we free range on about 10 acres) they stay in their respective group and don’t have much trouble with each other, but when they go to the coop at night for dinner time feed...
My chick is at day 24. I opened the air cell, and wet the inner membrane. I see a foot! Help what do I need to do? I can see a heartbeat or breath happening in the part of the body I can see next to the foot, so I’m not sure if it’s feet over head or upside down in the egg. I don’t want to, lose...