Hiya! chicken mom of 3 beautiful girls. I accidentally bought some paper fluff instead of hemp (like the kind that you would use in a Guinea pig or rabbit cage) and I was wondering if it would be safe for to use in their coop? I don’t really want to use the pine shavings anymore after hearing...
We just had quite a few very bad tornadoes in my town. A large chunk of my town is destroyed, and lickily where I live didn’t get hit and my chickens are okay, but the storms here were really bad and I was at work. I have three hens, two bantams and a polish, and they are all screaming their...
I have a bantam Dutch rooster, and a full size polish hen, that hatched 5 eggs about a month ago. They don’t look as polish as their mother. What do you think they’ll look when they’re older?
(I clean the brooder every few days, and I clean the food out like 2x a day, they’re messy. This was...
Not about my cool, but about my brooder. I have 7 month old babies in my brooder. I let their brooder get to dirty (yes I feel guilty and had a panic attack) and cleaned it out about an hour ago. It’s in my garage, and I didn’t want the chicks to get out of the other box I put them in to clean...
My 1 day old chick had to be moved into the brooder earlier than anticipated. The egg was cracked about 4 days before hatch, so we had to use candle wax to fix it up. She also had a rough hatch, about 24 hours from pip to starting to zip. When she came out, the yolk was still attached and like...
My 1 day old baby chick seems to have some sort of abscess on it’s neck. Does anyone else know what it is? She/he’s a Bantam but we’re not quite sure what kind as she’s kind of a mix.
I have 3 already hatched chicks in my incubator and 2 that haven’t even pipped yet. One that hasn’t even pipped yet has green stuff on the bottom of it and my sister swears it’s baby poop from another chick that he got rolled into. The thing that worries me is he got cracked one time when he...