Hi there i have a speckled sussex making a very funny noise it is a kind of croak sound like she has something caught in her throat i am very worried and dont know what to do!! Please help!!
Hello everyone I have a broody sitting on 6 eggs at the moment they are due to hatch this upcoming weekend and 3 are fertile (veining exetera exetera. ) so I bought the other 3 up to the house and candled them and did the float test 2 failed in the float test as they sunk but the other one...
Thanks for your reply. I'm worried about making a small hole because it hasn't internally pipped yet. I'm also scared to help it out because this is my first time and I don't want to make the situation worse.
Here is a photo of me candling the egg does anything look abnormal
Hi I'm not an expert on sexing but with silkies it is usually the comb that gives there gender away so keep and eye on that as they grow older. Here is a picture of my silkie roo at 4 weeks so you can compare
Hey guys I have a broody baby who is sitting on 1 precious egg but it is day 26 and it still hasn't hatched. I did the float test and candled it today everything was good and the chick was moving it the egg so it's not dead. This is my babies first time going broody and in the beginning she was...
Hi everyone so i'm pretty new to chickens and have never dealt with broody chickens before so if there is something obvious that i have missed please don't judge. Anyways i have a silkie and she has started to lie down during the day. a couple of days ago i went to check on my girls and boy...
for the past couple of weeks I have been wanting eggs so bad but of course my girls just didn't want to lay so I started to give up hope they would lay soon. Then today I go down to the coop to let my rooster out and check on my girls after hearing a funny noise (not the egg song or so I...