My chickens are my pets! I'll never cull one. My family will eat their eggs and that will be all. I walked out today and one of them was laying out in the sun with her leg and wing stretched out just lounging around. She looked up at me like "what?" She started dozing until someone else bumped...
This pullet's comb is longer and pinker than her sister's of the same breed. I'm hoping she isn't a he. Hopefully these pics are good enough to be able to tell. They're about 9/10 weeks. Thanks!
I have a chick that isn't growing like the rest... whenever I keep her in the brooder with the 4 other much larger chicks (same age) she seems to decline. Whenever I isolate her, within a few days she bounces right back and even has flown out of her quarantine area (much to my family's...
If she bounces back again, is there a period of time that is too long to raise her separately from the other chicks? I feel like as soon as I put her back in the brooder she just shuts down. I took her out and put her back in quarantine and she laid right down and went to sleep. I felt bad for...
I have a brooder with 5 chicks in it. They are probably approaching 4 weeks old. One of the chicks is not growing like the others, and I can't figure out what's wrong with her. She stands under the heat lamp with her eyes closed. I thought she was sick or maybe got too cold for her size, so I...
I have a brooder with 5 chicks in it. They are probably approaching 4 weeks old. One of the chicks is not growing like the others, and I can't figure out what's wrong with her. She stands under the heat lamp with her eyes closed. I thought she was sick or maybe got too cold for her size, so I...