Hello, so about a week ago we noticed one of our roosters was acting a little funny; he wasn't with the rest of the flock, not super active, and just kinda depressing. So we picked him up and put him in one of our extra stalls with food and water mixed with antibiotics for chickens. We thought...
I had heard wet sand with a heat lamp overhead can work, but will it work for chicks about to hatch, and does it even work at all? I really hate to lose any chicks for any reason.
Okay so I had one hen who was sitting on about eight eggs for the course of three weeks. Then, all of a sudden, yesterday I found her off her eggs and they were kinda cool. I put her back on them and she sat down, but then when I got back from school I found her away from the eggs again, one...
We actually had a problem similar to that at one point with our old coop. It might help to get some flimsy chicken wire or something of the like, and enclose off the area around the well. Just enough so they can't get to stand on it. They might realize that the coop is easier and safer.
Hope it...
Hello everyone, Sam here.
I have around 45 or so chickens as to date, with about six or seven broody hens sitting maybe 20 more. Now, we had kept most our chickens in two coops, one big another small, and our houses storage unit. Of course, not liking how it kept getting dirty in there, we...
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I have a hen who recently hatched out a couple of chicks from different parents. Most of them were fine, except one. She was born blind, with her ear holes where her eyes should be, and malocclusioned, her beak wasn't aligned. I was going to let her pass naturally, but too my...
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So I just found out that two my of hens now are setting. This happens way too often at my house hahaha. Not to long ago Caesar and his girlfriend Cinna hatched out four little chick's, two silkies and two bantams.
Now Variae is sitting on eleven eggs, mostly silkie...
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This morning I left for school and closed the door to my room, locking the one that leads to the bathroom, and left my five little chicks inside their box. Normally, this is fine as it pretty much has always been since we've been keeping chicks...
Sorry, I meant to say aren't. They are the two that aren't the same breed as their "mother". She was pecking at them earlier and apparently didn't want them. They are super happy now and too precious.
I actually removed them from momma and they are perfectly happy. They now hop on my shoulders and come when I sing hush little baby or due a three tune whistle. Their mom seems fine, it's funny how they are the two chicks that aren't the same breed as the mom. Must have something to do with...
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My d'Uccle eggs started hatching tonight!! Two have externally pipped, five have internally, two not yet, and three more still have about a week to go (late starters). Their mom will keep pecking at me until she draws blood, even if my hand stops moving.
I did a test and...
Hello, thank you for any and all help.
Here's the situation:
I have a hen that recently hatched out some eggs. They are about a week or two old now and beautiful, but very frightened of people. Their mother won't let me near them to play with them daily so I can't seem to get them to be...
It is fine for you to have moved her. She shouldn't leave the nest if she truly wants to hatch out the eggs. I would suggest moving some of the shavings from her original nest as I believe chickens use the to tell their nests apart in some sense. They really do settle down much faster when they...
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I have a bantam d'Uccle who went broody what I thought was about a week and a half ago. Well when I candled the eggs today, they seemed almost full into the space but the air sac, making me wonder when incubation actually started. I do have a problem, one of the eggs looks...
Candled again!
So I candled the eggs again today and removed three that weren't fertile. So that leaves twelve still under the hen that are all viable and doing well. So hoping all goes well, this is probably day eleven or twelve. Still one week to go and I'm getting edgy.
It's the most fun when they're all in one room running all over you. When I first hatched them and took them outside, they liked to follow me around everywhere. Just picture yourself being chased by 3000 chicks lol!
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It's funny, I was just reading one of your threads about hatching keets. Seems like your a hatch-a-holic like myself. Last year I'd had to have hatched out probably 3000 chicks or so and sold all but maybe ten of them. I wouldn't mind some guineas as they are great "watch-dogs"...
You're fine, don't worry. Here's a little story.
I had a Silkie hen hatch out chicks about a week or two ago. (Best broody ever, eight cute little chicks) Here's the miracle part, once about seven of them hatched, she would be off the nest all day, and only go back on when it was night time...