Hello fellow Coloradans! I live in Leadville and have started hatching chicken and quail eggs with some success but looking for advice on how to get better hatch rates.
I'm currently using the Nurture Right 360 and hatched my first chicken eggs with a 25% hatch rate (hatching eggs were local)...
I'm currently using the Nurture Right 360 and hatched my first chicken eggs with a 25% hatch rate, my second hatch is Jumbo quail and my hatch rate is 6% (2 hatched out of 29 eggs shipped from Myshire) . I live at 10,000 ft above sea level and understand from all my research that hatching at...
I live at 10,000ft in Colorado and am hatching my first batch of chicken eggs sourced locally. Things inside the eggs were looking good at day 7 but at day 12 it looks like most embryos stopped growing. I’m using a nurture right 360 incubator running at about 100 degrees and 50-52% humidity...
I was mistaken, she’s an Asian black Thanks for the lead on the egg gland, doing some research and that’s probably the issue She’s my favorite out of the flock so I’m not ready to cull her quite yet. I just added an extra nesting box to see if i can stop the egg from getting crushed before I...
Hello!
I'm stumped and could use some help/advice.
I have a 1yr 4mo old sex link chicken laying soft eggs that break almost daily when another chicken goes into the nesting box to lay. The nest box hay gets wet and the other chickens end up eating the egg.
She is fed Purina Layena crumbles with...
She’s outside sunbathing right now :) I let the other chickens out to free range and a few of them fought her and drew some blood in her comb. She held her own and then I put the others away. I had another sick chicken that I had to isolate and eventually put down and they didn’t fight her like...
Update: she’s still in the house and no egg for days. She seems to be acting normal, eating and drinking but her butt feathers (see photo) are still puffed up and she’s pooping runny, greenish poops. Going to start baytril today. I’m attaching a pic of her recent poop to see if it leads to any...
I don’t have an avian vet nearby, I have some baytril antibiotics, I’m wondering if that would help although I’ve read eggs from a chickens given baytril shouldn’t be eaten ever again.
One of my buff ops, 9mo old, has been looking sick, not moving too much, puffed up, tail feathers down. I thought maybe egg bound so I brought her inside and have been doing magnesium baths. She’s been pooping runnyish poops and eating and drinking small amounts. This morning I found this in her...
She’s still the same, pooping clear or yellowish liquid, not eating except for spaghetti, grass, and a green smoothie I made for her. She stands puffed up in the mornings and evenings but is a little more active in the afternoons. I just started giving her baytril orally last night so we’ll see...
Update: my buff is hanging in there but is skin and bones! As a last ditch effort I tried feeding them left over spahetti (which they love) and she actually went crazy and ate some. I know it’s not super healthy but I just want to get some food in her body. The Asian black seems to be fine...
Update: the buff orp is doing ok so far but now my Asian black is acting sick and just pooped a clear yellowish liquid!!! Theyre all drinking the corid water which is good. Tomorrow I’m going to call around to vets nearby to see if any of them do fecal checks.
She’s actually looking better this evening, she’s walking with the flock rather than sitting off somewhere by herself. She’s eating kale but now interested in scratch or crumbles. She’s not puffed up but is still walking a little slow. So hoping it’s cocci and not EYP, feeling cautiously optimistic