I put three eggs in my incubator and on day 3 I candled the three eggs and one of the eggs has a good embryo with veiens but the other two just have a big mass in the middle of the yolk with no veins. Does this mean they are going to turn into an embryo or is this bad?
I have a mottled cochin bantam and she is now 8 months old and she is still not laying. I have another speckled sussex and light Brahma and they are laying great. But my bantam will not. I also have another bantam rooster that is the same age and he bothers her non stop. Could the rooster be the...
I have a light Brahma and a speckled Sussex that are 35 weeks old and they are still not laying yet. They get enough food and the right nutrients. Is this normal?
I just got two 4 month old Cochin bantams an I think one is a rooster. Does anybody know if they are loud when they get older or are they a more quiet breed.
I have one black sex link who is the boss hen of the coop. When I go in the coop to collect eggs in the morning she sometimes jumps up and pecks me. Well this morning she pecked me and I had enough so I took her and pushed to the ground and she got back up and attacked me. So I took her and held...
I have 2 11 week old pullets and I am trying to introduce them to the big chickens. I have tried putting them in a plastic crate in the coop so the other two older chickens can see them but can not touch them. So i have been doing this for about two weeks and i decided to let them out into the...
I have a small coop with two old hens and i have two other pullets that are about 10 weeks old and i need to know how to introduce them. I have let them roam free with each other in the backyard and they seem fine but when i put them in the coop they get attacked by the older ones. It is not...
They are about 10 weeks old. And i did take them out of the coop once i noticed that on of them had a little blood drawn. and they are about half of the size of the other ones.
I have two pullets and i have tried to introduce them into the coop with the two older chickens but the older ones peck the younger ones until they bleed. I have let the old ones and young ones rome free in the backyard and they seem fine with each other until i put them in the coop. I have...
I put my pullets in the big coop because it was too hot in the shed that they are originally in. The older chickens did not seem like they even cared at all about the younger ones and so i had no concern. I came out about 45 minutes later to check on them and the older chickens pecked one too...
I have three 7 week old pullets and I don't know how to introduce them to my older chickens in the coop. Last time I tried about a week ago the older chickens starting to attack them. Should I just let them show who's boss or should I wait a few more weeks?
My chicks have this sometimes. It usually happens when they drink a lot of water at one time and thats what makes their poop watery sometimes. I think it will be fine just watch its behavior.
My black sex link has no feathers on her butt it is just bare skin. It does not look like anything is wrong there is just no feathers. Anybody have any answers?
How old do my chicks have to be until I can start turning out the heat lamp at night? Right now they are three weeks old and they seem to have a pretty good amount of feathers and the lamp is constantly on when can I turn it off.
I also got a Speckled Sussex at the feed store with my black Cochin and light Brahma and she is a lot smaller than the other two but she is the first one to grow feathers. What store did you get yours at?
I usually start my chicks at about 95 degrees during their first week then I go down about 5 degrees a week until they are old enough. But at two weeks about 90 to 85 degrees is good. And like Allenchick said you can tell by their chirping and body language if they are too cold or too warm.