My old friend Crookneck has a crooked beak. Crookneck is a "handicapped chicken". When she was a chick she was dropped and broke her neck. She lived life with all my other chickens, but her neck is all crooked and her head is close to her body. She can't groom herself and she has to move her...
One of my Buff Orpington hens is sick. Last night she didn't go into the coop. She stayed under the coop where they go when they are hot. When I found her I moved her inside. The next morning I watched all the chickens to see if any are sick. The last one that left the coop in the morning had...
I just got 5 chicks from My Pet Chicken. 4 of them where peeping and had some water and feed. They where perfectly fine. One of them hardly opened her eyes and couldn't stand or walk. 8 hours later, after dipping her beak in the water to let her drink, and keeping her warm, she is opening up her...
I have eggs in the incubator and is quite late to ask, but is it ok to open the incubator after day 18? I have been opening the incubator constantly to see if my eggs are hatching but today i heared that you are not soposed to do this. Will my eggs be ok?
It is day 22 of my Speckled Sussex eggs in the incubator and nothing is happening! I think I have been keeping up with the temperature and humidity pretty well, but there is no rocking or any other signs of them wanting to come out. I haven't tried candling them to see if they are good, but 6...