Wednesday, is our maran hen, she hatched 5 barnyard mixes and we gave her 6 chicks from tractor supply... shes done well but she did pick out someof the chicks feathers at one point until we expanded her space. I dont think shes the one responsible for pecking their eyes but im unsure as she...
A couple of my girls feet look like this. I dont know if its bumble or amonia burn though. Also I don't know if its because they sleep up in the rafters and then jump all the way down in the mornings, they have a wood ladder roost but dont use it. So I may need to take those rafters off...
My 8 month old hen is unresponsive, pale comb and wont open beak when I try to put liquid on it. Last night was extremely windy and loud with 40mph winds and a low of 35 F. All of my other chickens are fine just not her. I watched her fall off the roost and then just not get back up. She is...
Hi all, so I’ve had a chick that has had wry neck since she was 2 weeks old. She’s a black Jersey giant and is now 11 weeks old. We thought it would just take more time but we’re not seeing a change. We’ve been doing 400 iu of vitamin E as well as 1/4 of a vitamin B complex pill daily. There’s...
Hi all, I’m new to chickens and have a pullet (6 weeks old) that we recently started allowing to go outside. She now keeps moving her neck around as if adjusting her crop often. Her crop is squishy and about the size of a medium bouncy ball. Her breath doesn’t smell, poop is normal, energy and...
Hi all, I’m new to chickens and have a pullet (6 weeks old) that we recently started allowing to go outside. She now keeps moving her neck around as if adjusting her crop often. Her crop is squishy and about the size of a medium bouncy ball. Her breath doesn’t smell, poop is normal, energy and...
My 3 week old chick has been turning its head to the right. It is still eating drinking and running around normal. He can even turn its neck around the opposite way to nibble its feathers but there is a definite bend to the right at all times. This has been going on for a week. I’ve been...
My wife and I just started our little farm at home, and we are super excited about this new adventure!
This is our first time with chickens, we got some last week on Wednesday, and we got 6 babies.
We have:
1 Dark Brahma
1 Black Jersey Giant
1 Buff Orpington
1 White crested black polish
1...