Hello! I'm hoping to get some confirmation in my thoughts and guidance. I got home for my lunch break and found one of my girls was limping pretty badly. She's about 6 months old and a barred rock (currently laying). My husband and I grabbed her to inspect her foot and found she has a fleshy...
I have a 20 week old barred rock pullet that yesterday afternoon was laying in the run, puffed up, eyes closed and not wanting to move. I brought her inside, gave her a good warm soak and when picking her up out of the water she passed a soft shelled egg and what looked to be a completely...
So today we found our very first egg! Our pullets are 18 weeks old today so this is very exciting, we weren't expecting anything for a few more weeks at least!
Now.. hindsight is 20/20, but looking back I should have gotten chickens that laid different colored eggs to help my sanity in figuring...
Hello, I have an 18 week old barred rock pullet that appears to be extremely lethargic today, puffed up, falling asleep standing up and has green tinged, oily looking diarrhea. I went to pick her up and she vomited a little, and it appears like she is spitting up any time she tries to preen her...
Hello and please excuse the fact that I may just be paranoid (first time chicken owner!) but I would rather ask the question and get some peace of mind than ignoring a potential issue.
A few things of note: I have 6 13 week old pullets that have been outside for about 5 weeks. I sat outside...
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This is my first year with my chicks and I feel like I'm overdoing it, so I'm hoping I can get some insight/wisdom (my husband will sure appreciate it because I'm driving him crazy :idunno).
I live in Oklahoma and we just got a nice little cold snap in our weather. I moved our 6 chicks...
Just curious if anyone is wanting to take a stab at this. She's about 3.5 weeks old and a major cuddler, so we're hoping she's here to stay. :)She's got the start of a comb but no redness to it that I can see. We bought 10 chicks from MPC that were sexed female that I plan on splitting with my...
I have a chick that has been having problems with reoccurring pasty butt. My mother in law was over yesterday to help with the chicks and I think may have scrubbed a little too hard when cleaning her. Now her little vent is swollen and every few hours it's dry and crusty. I have been cleaning...