Found one of our polish chickens like this today.. she doesn't have any foamy bubbles or discharge and only one side of her face is like this. She seems to be acting normal otherwise with laying/foraging. Any advice on what to do with this, we have no chicken vets in our area.
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We are finally out of a very long winter and not sure how/why this happened or when but I just noticed it this afternoon when I let the babies out to roam 😫 I feel terrible that I didn't notice this sooner. I trimmed her nails today and noticed her poor toes. She's walking fine and acting...
I have 2 new hatchlings really struggling - this membrane and umbilical is attached and its rather large - is there anything I can do about this so its not so much weight dragging behind and they are trying to move around? Is there anything I can do to give them a shot at surviving, other than...
Are my eggs toast? 😭 I have 12 eggs in the incubator, starting day 3....A friend told me to leave the vent closed, well doing some reading and the humidityhas been way too high, 75-77% - I've opened the vent and it's dropped 10%, but are the eggs damaged from too much humidity from day 1 till...
Hello! This is our first time raising chickens so bare with me...I've searched and searched and cannot find answers to why my a couple of my chickens would start, and then stop laying; or why the others haven't started. We got them all on March 27th, so all but 3 are 24 weeks tomorrow. These...