Originally Posted by chicksgalore
All yesterday, nothing. I was convinced it was something else. Maybe stringy poop? Intestinal lining? I'm not sure what that looks like but it would actually be a relief if that's what it was! Then today, I saw them in the water again! Why are they...
Less than a week actually.
The chicks are all acting/looking fine, eating/drinking, sleeping, chirping. I have just never noticed poop like this in any of our chicks before and I think I would've noticed. I'm thinking of seeing what the vet says it is; my littles are wanting to hold them...
All yesterday, nothing. I was convinced it was something else. Maybe stringy poop? Intestinal lining? I'm not sure what that looks like but it would actually be a relief if that's what it was! Then today, I saw them in the water again! Why are they hitting the water! So, here are the...
Thanks, I'll have to try to get a picture. I first found one in the water which was fairly fresh and didn't have a lot of shavings/dirt in it. A while later, I found another one, same size, in the water. I did find a couple in the shavings as well then. I put some wazine in their water last...
We just purchased 10 chicks from local feed stores (2 different stores) a couple days ago so the chicks aren't even a week old and today I'm noticing someone dropping worms, greyish-white. They've been in a clean plastic tote with fresh wood shavings. The worms are 2-3" long. Ever hear of...
Thanks. They looked like these in this picture; where I found this picture said these were found in the mud outside the coop but my coop is elevated so would there be any way for them to get inside on their own? I just can't imagine the birds having dropped that many without me seeing them in...
We got rid of all our chickens several weeks ago but the manure was too frozen in the coop to clean until today. I did a major cleaning today, hosing the whole coop out and found a bunch of white translucent worms (they were all dead--not sure if it was as a result of the water or if they were...
Oh, and yes, they have/had feed all the time and no, they can't be hiding them. They're fenced in and we've thoroughly checked the whole area. I'm thinking we may need to get rid of the whole batch and move to a new fresh area and start new?
The new pullets I bought are RIR; the others are mutts we hatched: RIR, BR, EE. We are feeding mash and they don't like that as well but the pellets and crumble just seem to cost too much more! I didn't know about wetting the mash down; I'll try that. I've always fed corn and wheat just to...
I haven't gotten an egg in several months and I have about 19 laying hens. Over the summer, they were laying although not like I think they should've been. I brought in 6 new pullets from a hatchery and from those alone, I didn't receive more than one egg a day...ever! And that was 7 months...
I ordered the white broilers from Meyer Hatchery and am offering some for sale that we don't want. I just now realized that Meyer doesn't list a breed type for these chickens. They just say they're the fast-growing ones raised by commercial producers. Does anyone know what specific breed to...
We're planning on getting 2 turkey poults to raise soon; these will be our first ever turkeys. I have a laying flock now but we're planning on putting the turkeys in a moveable fence that we can move around to allow them to free-range. In about a month, we have about 20 meat chickens coming...
Thanks, Arielle, I will definitely have to check into this dry incubation idea thing. I've never even heard of it until yesterday! And, no, so far I haven't gotten much into the candling thing or learned much about the air cells. I guess maybe it's time I delved into that!
I've had many attempts with my LG, some not successful and some not too bad. Anyway, one of the ways I manage the humidity is to lay down soft rags under the turner. Last year was my first time using the turner and my hatch turned out pretty well. This year, I've done two so far and...
I had this issue with two of my hens last year. The first time, thankfully was in a coop where the nest was in a separate little "room" and I was able to staple screen over the opening. I put food/water in there and she was there the whole time. In the other coop, which is where she and...
Thanks for the encouragement! I'd have to do some research about the water wiggler thing. I'll probably try candling them next weekend. I'll keep you posted!