I'm concerned that she's just not thriving. She is much smaller in size compared to her hatch mates. I've given her some poly-vi-sol and made a little chick chair for her thanks to your pictures. I also wrapped her legs with some vet wrap to help stabilize. I tried doing the rubber band &...
I hae a 3 week old silkie chick. She started acting odd day before yesterday and hasnt gotten any better. She is about half the size of her hatch mates. She either lays on her side of sits up on her butt. She is lethargic but does eat and drink when encouraged. When I hold her she has this...
Thank you so much! I wasn’t able to find anything online that said not to feed it to them. To be honest they seem to all gobble this up faster than the 20% protein feed, so I guess it’s a good thing it’s a 50lb bag.
So I sent my hubby to the feed store to get more feed for our chicks and ducklings (They are all 4 weeks old). I usually buy the 20lb bag of "Dumor Chick Starter/Grower" feed which is 20% protein. He came home with the "Dumor Chick Starter" with 24% protein, which is designed for game birds...
Thanks for the info. Right now we just want some “eye candy” because I don’t have it in my to raise meat birds. Maybe one day but not today. After reading the replies here and I found a few other forum posts asking similar questions to mine I will for sure go with a heritage bird. I would hate...
Hey y'all. I need some input. I have been doing all sorts of research and watched pretty much every turkey related youtube video known to mankind. We have all sorts of other poultry but a turkey would be a first for us. My hubby is dead set on getting a turkey poult this year to raise as a...
So I have 5 ducklings and a goslings that are around 3 weeks old. As much as I would love to keep them in my house forever it's just not an option anymore. One of my idiot dogs killed one of our chickens last week (they were free ranging in the yard and he was let out by a neighbor kid that...