I need some thoughts on a disturbing discovery today. I’ve had a sick chicken and haven’t been able to isolate the problem. She was slowly loosing weight and spit up water a couple days ago. So I emptied her crop and it was smelly. I began treating her with vinegar and olive oil. Today I found...
I’m wondering if I can put two broody hens together that have hatched chicks one week apart? They were together initially, but on separate nests and seemed to tolerate each other’s presence. The problem… the second broody is only going to hatch one egg. I have a space problem and keeping them...
Pipping has begun and the first three to pip are ones that I dunked but I have a question. How do you determine if a chick can break thru the membrane or not? Started pip at 9 last night. Getting nervous 😳 humidity has been 70-74%. When I look closer, I do see a tiny tear
I’ll keep yo posted. I have 21 eggs and I floated 9 of them. :rolleyes: The remaining 12 are cream Legbars and one mix. At least my Legsbars were spared my mistake!