I have a young Pekin bantam hen who just loves to go broody, none of her siblings have yet but she is determined….
She is I think just under 1 year old and has been laying for a few months now, and has been showing a lot of broody behaviours
Thankfully her broodiness is easy to break by taking...
I have a 10 week old Pekin bantam roo who has feathered very strangely, and I haven’t ever seen or heard of anything similar so I’m reaching out to the collective knowledge of the forum
He has had these weird feathers since he first got wing tips at a week old, so I doubt it’s due to a disease...
I have a 5 week old chick with a very poopy butt and what appears to be poop stuck in the vent, is this pasty butt or something else? It just pooped 5 mins ago so it’s not contained constipated it seems
What should I do? I’m trying to clean it off but the chick keeps jumping away
I have 10 3 week old chicks, and I’m curious about gender, it seems like this breed the males feather slower, but I’d line the opinions of people more experienced with the breed, I think 3, 5 and 4 are Roos, as well as possibly 10, (pic doesn’t show it but 10 has the smallest comb out of all the...
Three week old chick has a weird eye, looks wet and slightly swollen, it’s other eye is fine, it’s eating and drinking normally, this chick is a bit runty, we just washed his eye with warm salt water, it looks like it might be a pecking injury, there looks to be a very small amount of dried...
I am raising several Pekin bantams and one is developing much slower than the others, it is growing and developing feathers and acting normal, just much slower, it hatched from the biggest egg last and was larger than most other chicks but now it’s been outgrown, is this chick a runt, and will...
I’m raising some Pekin bantams with the intention of hatching some from my own flock in the future, I’m curious about the colours and patterns I could get with my mix of hens and Roos, I’ll list the colours of the hens and roosters I’ll have, ( I’m not 100% of chick genders but I have a strong...
I have two older chicks that are around 4 weeks old and almost fully feathered, any idea on gender? Also any reason why the white chick is so scraggly? I have 10 young chicks I’m wondering if anyone knows what colour they might turn out? They are all Pekin bantams and were sold as mixed colour...
I’m hatching some Pekin bantam eggs, this will be my second hatch ever, candled today on day 17 (they are on a 20 day cycle, not 21)
11 are looking great :)
Stay tuned for the next three days to see some fluffy butts!
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Also these chicks are hatching around Halloween so some Halloween...
I have two Pekin bantams that are two and a half weeks old, people think they are both looking like roosters already, I can keep them but would prefer hens.. any chance these will be pullets? I know it’s too early to know for sure, the grey chick is feathering much faster than the yellow, I...
I hatched my first group of chicks a few weeks ago, 2 hatched without difficulty but one had pipped with no progress at all for 12 hours, I know this is usually too early to help, but this egg was moving on its own and peeping a lot, so I helped, and when I saw there were no blood vessels I...
I want to share some pictures and stories of my little flock of pekins, especially since we have some eggs incubating and incoming fluffy butts, this is a place I will share pictures and info about my small flock in Australia, and troubleshoot any ongoing issues :)
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A breeder suggested we medicate our chicks with this, we have two Pekin bantam chicks that are a week old, any advice from someone who has used this product before or knows anything about it?
I have two chicks that are sneezing sometimes and have clear runny noses, it doesn’t seem to bother them, they are still eating and drinking and running around like crazy, should I worry about this at all?
I have two 5 day old chicks, and i've tried multiple heat lamps and they are all too hot for this style of brooder, where the lamp is close to the ground, the chicks can get away from the heat, but under and around the lamp is extremly hot, around 75 degrees celcius right underneath, we are...
I have two Pekin bantam chicks and I’m curious about what colour they might turn out, the breeder sold them from a ‘mixed colour pen’ so they could be any colour, the yellow chick has a light grey spot on its side that is hard to see in pictures
im worried about my chicks and cant sleep, please help, it seems cold in the brooder but they are panting a little when they go closer to the heat lamp, and they retreat, this is my first time hatching chicks and I've already lost one, please someone help asap, I dont want to lose anymore
I have several fertile chicken eggs that are incubating on day 12, and I might have to move them to another house in a few days, which is only a five minute drive away, how risky is it to move them?