My chick was doing fine the night before. She was fully feathered out with 3 other similar age chicks and one duckling. Her body was appropriately heavy for her size and nothing going on at the vent or head. Just laying dead on the floor. My other chicks and duckling are gentle natured. In...
I'm pretty careful about writing down the hour and date incubation starts but am having very early hatches with shipped eggs from the same seller. My question is the seller selling eggs that have been partially incubated?
I received 8 eggs with the first batch, one broken and one egg looked...
A few years ago an ad was posting in my local Craigslist, saying they had two trick roosters for sale. Both knew the trick of playing dead on command and the seller posted pictures of roosters in a prone position as well as normal. I doubted it at the time, but now I thought I'd ask, is it...
Hi, I've raised chickens for many years and had been perfecting my project Ameraucanas to fit my own SOP (sex linked, larger bird/egg and a mutant color) and then disaster hit. A couple of years ago, I trimmed my flock down to one roo and maybe 8 hens for the winter. The roo had a freak injury...