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Only the one pipping is making noise. It has pecked a hole in the shell and we can see it moving.

I have no idea. They're under the heat lamp and I keep turning them in hopes that they'll still hatch. I honestly thought they were all dead after being so cold for 3 days.

We did but this is the only one pipping. I was trying to hatch babies for my mom so if this one survives, I'll buy it some friends.

She's no longer broody. She was actually leaving the eggs a lot before we moved her. She was in the coop. We just assumed it was a snake because an egg went missing 2 days in a row with no mess, nothing at all. We couldn't find any other clue though.

Days before the anticipated hatch we had to relocate our broody to the garage due to a suspected snake stealing her eggs. She got so upset she wouldn't sit on the eggs and turned her water over on them. A few days later we gave up & returned her to the gen pop. We kept the eggs so we could use...

My hubby had an even grosser picture. He's delighted in growing out our friends with it today.

We went nuclear Holocaust with regular Permethrin and it did nothing. We tried spraying and powder multiple times. This stuff is incredible. You can see bugs walk through it and just keel over.

Have you ever tried demon dust? I think it is basically a suped-up version of Permethrin. I got it at the co-op and it has, by far, the most effective thing we have ever dusted with. We dusted the birds, the coop, and all through and around the run. I couldn't really find any information online...

I'm happy to report that she is still alive today! I put some clindamycin in her water today and we will do wound care when we get home from work. It is truly astonishing what these birds can live through.

Y'ALL. I've dealt with some seriously nasty stuff in the past few years of having chickens but this definitely takes the cake. This is the same chicken that we had to treat for having a very infected dog bite. This bird either has 9 lives or is just horribly unlucky.

Check THIS out! We decided to treat our girls for mites today because we periodically struggle with them. When I picked up my lavender orpington I realized she had bumblefoot. When I turned her over, I found this nastiness! It was actually very simple to surgically remove and my husband stitched...

That's exactly what we thought. Scary predator because they're so smart!

This post is exactly what I was looking for! We surgically removed 2 obvious bumblefoot plugs today then decided to inspect everyone else. We found SO many other black scabs (no swelling or limping) & started surgically removing. After 2 more tiny ones we decided surely they didn't all need...

No offense taken at all! I do take great care of them, I've just made dumb decisions over the years. Unsupervised free ranging & I had a second hand junky unsafe coop when I first started is where predators come into it. Worms & lice came when I bought pullets from the county fair & didn't...

We're in Wilson County . Maybe as well be the jungle with all these predators!

Just ranting... 6 years, countless birds. Hawks galore, inundated with raccoons. Dog attacks. Foxes, bobcats, coyotes. Chickens killing other chickens. Random deaths. You name it. Lice so bad they went up my arms when I treated for them. Neverending mites. Permethrin resistant bugs. Internal...

Oy! That should've said 6PM! I let them out around 5:30 pm, hubs found all the feathers before 7pm.

Yesterday, sometime around 6 pm, a five-month-old pullet was taken. It was basically wide open in the backyard and we only found two gigantic piles of feathers. No blood, no feet, nothing other than loads of feathers. I can't imagine she had many feathers left. We're just trying to figure out...

It's really hard to tell from the picture but I'm fairly certain this is what we have as well. There are so many of them and they are on the ground, all over the wood, and especially all over anything concrete. They're even climbing up the feed bucket. It does seem like they only come out at...

We ended up digging a pretty large trench and filling it with drainage gravel. We just got our first bit of rain since doing that I'm not sure it was enough rain that would have caused problems. Since the flooding dried out, we don't have a single fly down there. Thank you all so much for the...