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I am needing advice/suggestions on figuring out what is wrong with two of my hens and my male turkey. They all seem to be lethargic....standing or even lying down in the daytime in the middle of the yard. (They are free range and roam all day) The two chickens are even closing their...
These are pictures of my hen that has been having some problems for several days now and took a serious turn for the worse this morning, when I found her sitting in the middle of the chicken house with her eyes closed and she wouldn't move. We noticed about a week ago she was walking funny and...
I am needing advice. I have a mama hen who has 1 chick about 3-4 weeks old. But, she is also sitting on 4 eggs that are close to hatching. She had 6 to begin with....1 hatched the other day and was dead when I found it. Then, one hatched today and had a bad wound from pecking or something so I...
Hello, I have a very confusing situation. I have a mama hen who has been sitting for almost 2 months. She had one chick hatch about 3-4 weeks ago, but continued to get eggs that were at different stages. She was sitting on 5 eggs that we had no idea the stages of. I candled them and could see...
I am looking for 1 or2 polish crested hens and/or 1 or2 frizzle hens. They do not have to be older, just old enough to be out on their own outside and in the coop. We currently have 2 polish crested hens...not much more than 2 months old. My son lost one and is really hoping for another and both...
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I am having a dilema with our baby chick. There were 2 and its hatch mate died overnight, so it is now alone. None of our mama hens will take it in as their own, so it is just in the chicken house.
My concern is that it is getting cold....below 30 degrees here and am wondering if the...
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I have some questions about 2 baby chicks I have raised. We raised them from the day they hatched and they have just recently went into the chicken house. Not sure how old...probably close to 2 months. I found one of them dead this morning in the chicken house. I noticed before I put them...
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I am needing advice on one of my hens who is partially egg bound/and maybe prolapsed. She had the egg shell hanging off her rear, and it is now gone, but what is left is the soft, rubbery part of the egg. It is hanging out her vent, which is protruded out. She is not fully prolapsed, as...
Hello, I have a very unique situation and hoping someone on here could shed some light on it.
We just lost our turkey hen today with her 9 babies. She had 2 eggs left on her nest, so we decided to put them under our broody chicken, who is also sitting on 5 chicken eggs. We have no idea when...
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I am in desperate need of some advice. Our female Narangassett has been sitting on a nest in our field for a month and we just found out yesterday that she has 9 chicks that are only a few days old. She has moved them to various places around the yard and while she seems to be...
I am needing some advice on a turkey egg that our hen has. She laid 12 eggs and has a nest on the ground right outside our house. Only 1 of the 12 was fertilized or started to form into an embryo...so that egg is in her nest by itself. Normally this wouldn't be a problem. However, she also has 2...
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I have an egg that is starting to hatch. It cracked a couple of weeks ago and I followed the advice on here of sealing it with candle wax. So, my question is do I need to peel away any of the wax to help it hatch better? The chick is pipping and has made a huge crack around one side...
Hello, I have an egg that is probably 14 days in. It may be more than that...we aren't sure when our broody hen started sitting on it. It got a crack in it the other day, so I took the advice from here and put melted wax over the crack to seal it up. That seemed to work just fine. I candled the...
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I could really use some help understanding what is going on with my Silkie hen. She is around 3 years old and it started last night. Last night we noticed she was trying to pass a soft shelled egg. This morning she is continuing and part of it is still hanging off her vent. I do think...
Hello, I am needing some advice on incubating 5 peacock eggs that were given to me. We were hoping that one of our broody hens would sit on them...but she did not. I went and purchased an LG incubator...despite all the negative comments on them. It is the only brand our local farm store...