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Bloody poops, ruffled feathers, lethargic, the whole gamut. The entire hatch of 6 week old chicks seems to have it. I’m losing them at the rate of 1-2 per day. I started treating with Corid powder 3 days ago, and if anything they look WORSE. I’m doing everything I can: bleaching their enclosure...

This is The Tale of the Formidable Jenny Lou Jenny Lou, AKA: Dragon Lady, has the most interesting story of all the birds I have. Jenny Lou is from an old Hmong family bloodline. She hatched as an absolutely perfect, jet black chick, black skin from head to toe and all. I swear she came out of...

Okay, so here’s the story: Yesterday I picked up my broody hen to do a general health check and took her to the garage, where I could sit down and give her a thorough check. She got away from me on the way there, so I tried to corral her on the garage, which was already open. I went to close her...

I have been treating for coccidiosis off and on for MONTHS now and am at a loss. At first it was just chicks…we have had a very hot summer (110-115 from June to September) with the only break being super heavy monsoons which caused most of my property to flood. Right after the floods started in...

So I have a meat bird project going, White Laced Red Cornish hens under a Hmong stag. One pullet turned out this lovely color/pattern that I can’t identify. The others are paint colored (white with black pigment “holes”) and a few are red partridge. I would like to base my heritage meat bird...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Most of the chickens in this pen are Hmongs, with a few Easter Eggers. They are mixes ages. Two roosters, 6 adult hens and a dozen chicks of varying ages between 8 weeks and 4 months old...

What does this look like to you? These chicks are between 3 and 5 weeks old (staggered hatch between two broody hens). They are in an outside covered 25×15 run during the day and in a 4×4 brooder coop at night. They eat organic 18% chick crumble, plus a little handful of mealworms every couple...

This is Talon, he's a Qaib Hmoob Hmong, turned 1 year old in April. He has never attacked me, takes treats gently from my hand and calls the hens and babies over when he sees that I'm carrying treats. He moves quickly out of my way when I move toward him, and I have never felt unsafe to turn...

I have this 3 month old cockerel whose Mom is a blue egg layer of unknown heritage. She has yellow legs, a clean face, a pea comb, some mottling on her head and wings and apparently goes broody often. Dad is uncertain. The last pic is of his mom, broody and glaring at the camera from the inside...

So I got 12 White Laced Red Cornish pullets from Ideal poultry a couple weeks ago. All are healthy and thriving, but today I noticed that a couple of them have FIVE toes on each foot. Does this mean they're not pure Cornish, or are is this typical of hatchery quality birds? LOOK!!! lol

So I have a clutch of eggs under a broody hen and one got smashed. Much of the shell is gone, membrane exposed and torn in several places, but there is no bleeding or veining whatsoever that I can see. I have the chick in the incubator right now with high humidity. Chick is struggling and...

So I have 22 eggs in my Nurture Right 360 and they're on day 10. Today the temp spiked to 103.5 for just a few minutes because the room it was in got REALLY HOT. It's my daughter's upstairs bedroom (the only room safe from the cats) and despite being told to leave her a/c window unit on, she...

So I have this 6 week old Hmong pullet. Her Mom is a black copper color and her dad is golden duckwing, and most of her siblings are turning out black, but she looks mostly white! What color do you think she will turn out to be? She is mostly feathered out, except for some baby fuzz on the very...

I have two broody hens raising some chicks who are 2-3 weeks old. I went out to feed the chicks this morning and saw that one of the chicks was limping. I picked him up to see what was going on and found that the skin on the inside of his thigh was ripped open. I have no idea how it could have...

Their parents each have one copy of the gene for mottling. Mom is half Aloha and half Golden Spangled Hamburg and Dad is a Hmong rooster whose parents were a mottled hen and a golden duckwing rooster. Only the 3 chicks from this hen have white tips on the feathers like this. The rest from other...

This is my second time hatching chicks under a broody, and my first using an incubator. I have a few eggs under two broody Hmong hens...one hen went broody a week after the other, but they seem to be swapping nest boxes every few days. They are in the same small coop, and I can't move them at...

So I had a friend hatch out some chicks for me, and I'm noticing that they're still missing a lot of feathers on their head/neck area. There were a few mysterious deaths in this hatch between the ages of 6-10 weeks (chicks were found dead on the coop floor in the morning). I am supposed to get...

So I need to get an incubator (as I am starting a new breeding project), and I've been looking through reviews and doing weeks and weeks of research, but just about every incubator I've seen in my price range has some pretty terrifying horror stories in the reviews. So I thought I'd better ask...

So I am starting a breeding project with Qaib Hmoob Hmong birds. I am breeding for type and structure first, color later, but I am curious as to what my color crosses would produce. This is a landrace breed, so there is no standard as of yet. So my question is this: If I have a Spangled Golden...

So I am starting a breeding project with Qaib Hmoob Hmong birds. I am breeding for type and structure first, color later, but I am curious as to what my color crosses would produce. This is a landrace breed, so there is no standard as of yet. So my question is this: If I have a Spangled Golden...