we have a chicken whose just over a year old and she has never laid a proper egg, its always without a shell and not very frequently, she also is having really watery almost entirely liquid poo. our other chickens always laid rock-hard eggshells and now she has grit availableto her. could it be...
I got home and went to put our 3 chickens away, only one came up to me. I looked around and saw a pile of feathers on the grass and Dolores my sweet new legbar very injured close by, I picked her up and found my new brahama Clovdr dead over our fence. they were still warm so must have...
Please help, I have just spent about 15 minutes cutting off feathers covered in eggs from lice and parasites on our chicken. She is really badly covered from catching them from a rescue chicken
What do I do???? Going to the vets is not an option and DE power is not working
Can anyone recommend a...
Hi I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about gender for these three chicks, they are easter egger and I think legbar and black cockerel cross.
we have three more but as they are BSL I have an idea of gender already but as for the stripy ones, I have no clue.
they are coming up to 2 weeks...
Chick hatched last night and when I was taking out to brooder I saw this
It’s just below the vent- I thought it was at first
I hope it’s just the umbilical chord coming off and not some of its insides coming out
It looks like a prolapse of some sorts but I really have no clue!
Please help as...
One of our chicks hatched a couple of hours ago a day early (day 20) and is doing well. However its knocking into all the other eggs, especially the two that have pipped. As its a day early and some other eggs will be hatching in two days, will its movement hurt or prevent the other chicks from...
we are hatching eggs that were fertilised by a black cockerel- EE I think, will our range of colour EE or Legbar cross chicks have the black phenotype and is it dominant?
I know nothing of chicken genetics
I am currently incubating 9 chicks and I want them to be safe from parasites
we previously hatched 9 chicks and 7/9 turned out to be cockerels :( We STUPIDLY put the cockerels up for sale and gave them all to this man- something I have now come to regret. In return for the cockerels, he gave us...
im using a janoel12 incubator with a temperature of 38 degrees c. I put them in the incubator late last afternoon so they are not even 24 hours into incubation. I checked this morning and it was flashing 33 degrees and the lid had either been knocked or something had gone wrong with the moving...