What are many of your hatching egg policies? Do you ever give free eggs if someone claims none were fertile? What if you knew the eggs had a great fertility rate?
I am having issues with people claiming no eggs were fertile/no eggs hatched. I am trying to ask people which it was. Not hatching...
Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday. He went with me to feed the animals before bed, and the girls had a couple surprises. First, I found a tiny egg. It’s maybe an inch and a half long (I have tiny hands!). I believe it’s from one of my Barred Rocks who’s been laying an egg every other day but made...
Sadie’s head is swollen. She has no eye or sinus discharge. Breathing is normal. It’s especially swollen on her left side. Her eyelid is stretched with the swelling. She can still blink. Her snood is also very swollen and is usually a very small size. Today it’s sticking right out. The area at...
I’m posting this in case anyone might be able to give insight into the predators or just give me a virtual hug. I’ve acted fine, like it wasn’t a big deal, but now that the night is quiet without distractions…It’s kind of hitting me. I lost 4 birds today. I have an empty coop. :(
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This is Half n’ Half (Halfy, Havsies, Half, Half n’, Halfer, Happy). I’ve noticed she really likes water. She stands in water and makes happy turkey sounds. Laying in water is new. 😍So cute.
Pearl is about a year and a half. She’s laid maybe 60 eggs this year, and has hatched a few herself of the ones we chose not to incubate. She currently has one two week old poult. She’s been trying to drop and mate with me, but today she’s also acting like a Tom! I’ve noticed her head becoming a...
I have 3 black australorp roosters, 1 production red, 1 mix cockrel, and at least 1 silver spangled appenzeller spitzhauben and 1 lavender americauna cockerels. Sorry if spelling is off. Each adult rooster has their own coop and hens. I’ve wanted to breed australorps and hatch some chicks or use...
I’ve had a couple turkey poults die (this is my first year hatching them from our turkeys), and a few times I thought I might be able to save the poult if I knew what would help. We’ve hatched 54 so far. Baby I wish to treat now is one I confiscated from mamma turkey who has a terribly dirty...
I have a Royal Palm and mystery mix hen that have decided to lay eggs in our garage on a shelf. The Royal Palm seems to be laying an egg every other day. We have two so far from her. The other hen is in the nest right now laying her first egg, I think. They’ve been dropping on the ground to mate...
I just found a really strange egg in a pile of hay where no chicken has laid before. We also have cayuga, welsh harlequin, and Ancona ducks. Could this be a duck egg?? Weird chicken egg?
Our turkeys are about 6 months old, and two are acting depressed. The one lost her toe nail a bit back and has recovered, but the other turkeys bullied her a lot since then. Their poop is sometimes a frothy yellow-orange. The weather has been getting colder, and we moved into the house on our...
Do you offer a mineral mix to your laying hens free choice? I’ve seen some mineral mixes for chickens online and wondered if I should get some for them just in case they need it. They get dumor layer pellets and/or purina omega 3 layer pellets, two scratch mixes mixed together, oyster shell...
Vet told us to give 1 ml baytril injections in our rooster’s wing. How do you give wing injections? I read some awful things about baytril injections. Will he be ok if we give him the injections the vet gave us?
backstory: We took a 6 month old Australorp rooster in to the vet yesterday, and he...