We have a broody chicken that started with 12 eggs. While checking on her, we discovered an egg or two missing every few days. Finally, with 4 days to hatch, she still had 6 eggs. That night, we caught a possum in the coop! The possum was taken care of and we thought we were good to hatch. On...
I have fowl pox in my flock. Three of my 2 month old babies have it, but one has been really bad. He lost a lot of weight and we began feeding him with an eye dropper yesterday. His weight is holding steady for the last 24 hours, and yesterday afternoon he really perked up. This morning he is...
My husband bought me an arrangement of tulips and lilies. Now that they are wilting I was going to discard them, but my husband asked if they could be fed to the chickens and ducks. I have no idea. Anybody?
I have had 9 eggs under my first time broody for 21 days today. She has hatched out 6 chicks in the last 16 hours and has now moved on to teaching them to eat and drink and keeping them warm. There are 3 eggs left in her nest and she is no longer sitting on them. I have an incubator - should I...
I bought 4 chicks at the feed store to go with the Aracauna chick that was the lone hatch from 12 eggs. One feed store employee thought they were bantys, another employee said Americaunas... I knew they weren't Americaunas - but I'd love to know what they are. After reading lots of posts, I know...
I have a one year old hen that has been laying an egg a day faithfully for about 4 months. She has not laid an egg in 8 days. She seems to be in very good health, except for a few feathers that seem to be loose. She is a Chantecler so her feathers are very loose and fluffy anyway.
I've been...
We have 3 Mallard Ducklings. They are about 9 weeks old. One has a very slight limp and we noticed a small swollen spot with a tiny black dot on the bottom of his/her left foot. As i searched the boards here I noticed a lot of information about Bumblefoot and I wonder if that is what I have. (I...
This is my first time incubating eggs. I put 12 eggs in and day 21 was Saturday, May 3rd. We had a chick hatch a little over 24 hours ago and nothing else has happened. Do I continue to wait, or are the other 11 eggs just not going to hatch?
We are trying to find a logical place to house chickens on our rented property. Since we can't really build anything, we are trying to use what is available. A previous owner kept ostriches so we have three large fenced pens on the property. Each pen has an insulated house (about 8 ft x 8ft)...
Hello. We just moved to Pennsylvania from Texas and are preparing to keep chickens. Our 9 year old son is the instigator here! He has wanted chickens forever. My parents and my in-laws keep chickens (or have) and he has always loved spending time with the chickens, so for his 9th birthday we...