This morning I found one of my hens having an apparent seizure. She can’t stand upright and is flailing about. Anything I can do to help her? Or should I put her out of her misery?
My eggs are hatching today. I began with 32 eggs with a hope of a 70% hatch rate. This morning I could hear them chirping through the egg shells when i opened the incubator to check on them. After work, 4 had hatched. Now I'm up to 7, and it is now 10:20pm.
3 days ago, I removed the rollers...
This chicken coop was gifted to me by my parents, because I am incubating 32 eggs which will hatch soon. But I don’t trust coop, because it sits on the ground level, and predator critters can easily dig under the fence and attack them. It has a ramp and a roosting house above ground, but the...
My quail chicks are now 10 days old and they’re growing fast. It’s summer time and it gets to lows of 62F. In my garage where they’re kept, it stays around 85F all night.
How much older must they be before I let them live outdoors?
This hatchling’s leg is jutted off to the side and it struggles to walk around with the others. Is this a deformation or a broken leg? Also, is there any hope of saving it?
Hi everyone, my hatchlings were born yesterday. 13 in total. I quickly set up their nesting area in my garage, inside a plastic tote bin, with chopped hay as their bedding surface, and an infrared heat lamp about 2 feet above. I set it up so half of their bin is exposed, while the other half is...
It seems that quail hens will neglect their eggs after laying them. I want to raise another generation of quails, but my quails don’t seem to care. Do I have to buy an egg incubator? Or can I trust my hens to care for their eggs?
I’m a first time quail farmer. I now have 2 roosters and 1 hen. The brown rooster overpowers the white one. Thus, the white one got bad head trauma from the brown one, but he survives with some bald spots. They are both mean to the hen when caged together, and obviously mean to each other...