My year old Buff Orphington roo was having some balance issues last month and now the problem is wayyy worse. He can't really stand but he crouches down instead. Whenever he walks he doesn't stand up straight but crouches and waddles almost duck-like. He takes slow uneven steps and trips often...
My BR was molting normally but yesterday she looked terrible. She had no feathers on her neck and half of her tail feathers were missing. Today she looked a little better but she was still pale and somewhat featherless in those areas. What is happening?
I have two chickens I raised myself this year. They started laying a month ago and I was getting one egg from each chicken everyday. A week or two ago, one of them stopped laying!
She acts normal. She runs around the yard. She eats. She drinks.
My parents and I want to know, what is going on...
I heard that Barred Rocks are supposed to lay blueish eggs. Is this true? Mine just started laying and I am getting this pale-ish egg sometimes with brown spots. I'm sometimes not even sure if they're hers.They could be me RIR but she was laying BROWN eggs. Is this normal? will the egg color change?
My 9 week olds are shedding feathers like crazy! Is this normal? They are also not eating as much. They are not ill. Is this normal? They are laying in the more sheltered part of the coop on the top story now. You know the drill by now. Is this normal? Please at least answer the feather...
I need to know ASAP when Rhode Island Reds start laying eggs. Please only give me an answer that you know for sure is true and accurate. I need to know for showing purposes.
My 4 week old road red hen was making some weird noises today. Then I realized that it sounded like clucking. Instead of her normal cheep cheep I heard cheecluck and cluk cluk. It didn't quite sound like the noises that grown chicks make but it was definetly a clucking sound. What is happening...
I have heard that you are supposed to put a heat lamp on the chicks and decrease the temperature by 5 degrees every week. I never really did that but the temperature on them has been consitently warm and they are perfectly fine. I have them on my patio outside in a tote altered to create a good...
My Rhode Red is 26 days old. She is almost completely feathered in accept for her head. When she flaps, sometimes white puffs fly into the air, feather peices. Is this normal? Is she shedding feathers or somthing?
I have two 13-day old chicks.I dKnow much about them considering that I am 11 and have never raised chicks before.they seem to be doing fine and all but I don't know about the poo.was brown and hardly runny at all just a week ago. Perfect based on another post. But now it is orangy and kind of...