The only 14 week pullet affected out of 6. It did that thing where on Sunday during weekly once over it was running round like normal and looked fine and on Wednesday night, it was wing drooping, lethargic, & not going into the coop. I thought it was the heat (it’s 110-118 here), isolated it in...
Ok- I was given some brown eggs- not chocolate, just a darkish brown, some had speckles and two were BIG compared to the rest.
Now I have mystery chicks at 5 weeks old. I would also love a guess on a gender because I swear these fellas all look like males to me 🤣
Photo white bird- lightly...
I “rescued” some silkies and one black (supposed) Astrolop. We aren’t sure what all is wrong. I have them isolated away from my main flock, with an electric fence buffer to keep a 6 ft DMZ type zone).
They aren’t as active as my normal flock but they aren’t lethargic either. Their legs have...
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We purchased 12 guineas, supposedly 2 days old. One died in the car on the way home and we lost 9 within 20 hours. This afternoon, one more keet passed suddenly. Now we have two lonely little keets left. Where did I go weong?
We used chucks in the brood...
I’m new to guineas.
We picked up 8 keets. The ambient temp during the day is 110F and 85 at night. The lady at the feed store said not to use a lamp, since it’s so hot. (I think this was mistake #1). She said they were feeding 23% protein unmediated poultry starter in pellet form at the store...