So Sunday afternoon I got a new member of the flock, a rooster, let's just say he's the most sweetest, docile rooster I've ever had (since this is my first rooster). I was told that he is only five months old, i was also told he was in a cage for most of his life, not seeing no weather, not...
So early this morning my youngest Corvo wasn’t looking too good, I thought she was egg bound because she has this great big sack under her vent. I’ve been washing her in warm water with Epson salt and olive oil around her vent. The lump is growing bigger and every time I massage the lump a...
So about a few weeks ago (2 weeks) I’ve noticed my Blue Wyandotte is walking a little funny and I got a little too fat. I weighed her and she was 4 pounds over her normal weight, her normal weight is 6.5 pounds and when I checked it she was 10.5!! She was way over weight and i started giving her...
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So time traveling back to a week ago and going to my local hatchery I got 4 baby chicks all of different breeds, barred rock, black sex link, phoenix chicken and last but not least a buff orpington. But I’ve been second guessing on two of my baby chicks because they...
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I’ve gotten 4 new little chicks and one of them has poo stuck in them. I’ve tried putting damp lukewarm water on the bum and cleaning the vent and it works for short time and then it comes back. I’ve read that brooder lamps give off wrong heat signals and makes it more hot. I’ve...
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So I have this blue wyandotte named Raspberry. She’s about 6 months old, and I’ve been waiting for her to lay her first (or second because I have a black australorp who also provides brown eggs) egg and she finally did today but noticed that there were scratch marks all...
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I have this 15 week barred rock and I’m still not sure what gender Scamp is. At the beginning I was told Scamp was a female but I didn’t really know after the feathering on the chest started changing (can see in pictures). Scamp is an odd one, not really wanting to be...
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So a little backstory on Scamp, I got her on Nov. 13 and she has always been odd. She had a broken beak 1 day after being born (my stores all have day old chicks) and I was thinking it was from the egg, maybe cutting her beak slightly. But she healed quickly from it.
She was...
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I’ve heard that there are lots of different types of color/lacing patterns (barred, buff,etc.) on wayndottes. I’ve tried to compare my wayndotte, Raspberry, to other images of the types of waynadottes but I’m not sure what type she is. :/ Any suggestions on what type she...
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I'm not sure what caused this or if it means anything unhealthy but I saw poo I've never saw before. My girls haven't been acting up or has done any unusual behavior, and I've done research on types of chicken poo but they all say that runny poo means some type of digestion problem...
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So about 5-6 weeks ago I got a plymouth rock from a group of chicks that were already supposed to be female. But maybe 3 days ago I kept hearing this crow/louder forced chirp (best way I can describe) coming from the pen. I know that plymouth rocks do grow faster than...
So i have two lovely girls who freerange. for christmas i have family over and my cousin feed them cooked ramen with loads of butter. I gave them grits to help with digestion but im not sure what else to do. ive never fed them any ramen before
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So, I saw quills starting to grow near my chicks other tail feathers. Is this a sign of a rooster? I had wanted to buy a hen, and i’ve never seen this on a female chick before.
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I recently moved into a area where there isn’t a lot of space for a built coop like I would like so my family help me buy a manufactured coop.
I’m trying my best to make it work for my girls and winter is coming. Im not sure what to do. I do have pallets to build onto...
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If you don’t know, I got a little pullet Nov 4. named Scamp. Anyway, she has this lump forming and it grew over night.
Yesterday she was in her coop area perching while picking at this one spot on her feathers. I checked to see if she had anything, didn’t really look...
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My eldest, Blueberry, has just layed her first egg! Being a new chicken mom this is very exciting!! I’ve been waiting for 7 weeks for her to finally lay!
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A week ago or so I got a new girl to add to my flock and she’s the sweetest thing. Her name is Scamp.❣️Im not sure how old she is since I bought her at a local farm shop. Her tail feathers have started to grow in + she already had a little comb that’s very pale.
She...
Hello everyone on BYC! For all that don’t know, I’m a new chicken mom.
I’m very concerned about my new chick, Scamp. Let me start from the beginning. Scamp was bought from a local farm shop. She already had problems eating and drinking, for next 2 days I was slowly teaching her how to eat by...
Hello! I wanna tell you about my chicken, Blueberry.
About 4 months ago I saved this girl from a very bad home. As a chick she was stuck outside in a dog cage with no warmth or food. For the next few weeks she was outside struggling to keep warm. She slept in her own feces. Her food was never...
Im a little confused. Im discussing when I should clip my 7 week old blue waynadotte, Raspberry’s nails. They’ve gotten extremely long and sharp. My grandma has said that you clip chicks nails around 5 weeks but my uncle says when they turn one month. Or do I not even need to worry about...