I learned my lesson about not using medicated feed. I hatched some expensive chicks and it was a bad hatch to begin with but they came down with coccidiosis. Only 3 survived.
whats everyone hatching? I hatched a bunch of mixed chicks a while ago. The roo was a copper maran and I'm expecting a few to be "purebred". I kept 5, sold the rest. Now I'm waiting for some more to hatch. I wish I had a bigger incubator as i can only hatch 30 at a time. I'm gonna keep some of...
Are they second generation SBELS? is the father a leghorn? if you want to get bluer eggs it doesn't matter which breed you choose as long as they lay the darkest blue
a few of my chickens finally started laying again since they stopped sometime in august. I hadn't even bothered checking for eggs until a day ago when I looked and the nest had 4 eggs. today i only checked one coop and it had one egg, probably more in the other coops. anyone else had any eggs...
that looks like a really nice coop. theres no exact number, i have a 4x8 coop and last time i looked in there it had 15 chickens. mine only stay inside at night and they like to flock together.
sounds like he has an upper respiratory infection. that's how they lose their eyes. I wouldn't worry about the bite, i work at a cat shelter and most of the staff gets bitten by accident every now and then. We wash it out with soap and water then apply betadine. cats like all mammals have nasty...
I was thinking the same thing. It was an unusually hot day, but they have a lot of shade and I would one of the fatter chickens would be the first to go from the heat but everyone else was fine.
Maybe she ate a toad or a mushroom. Well a snake got to her the other day. And I was not feeling...