Thanks everyone for the advice but my little dwarf, Tuscan, went to be with his other hatchlings today:( I am heartbroken. He was my little snuggle bug:(
I honestly do not know what breed it is. I know it’s a bantam due to the leg feathers but I have no idea who his mom is. My hen stole all of her eggs from the other hens
I have a chick that is about a month old and he still looks like he’s a few days old. He has no feathers :( it’s starting to worry me since this is the first hatch that I’ve had since owning chickens. His two sisters are almost fully feathered. Is there anything I need to do to help him or am I...
I hurt for a day or two but she is doing fine now along with her two siblings. I took the rest of the chicks away from her because I worried about their safety and the last one is starting to pip through
So I got home today and had a gut feeling that something was wrong with one of my newly hatched chicks. I ran up there and saw one under the momma outside but couldn’t find the other one. Panicked, I ran into the coop and moved my hen off of the top of the eggs searching for her and couldn’t...
This was my first time hatching and I had no idea what to do. By the time we figured out, she was already too close to hatching and there was nothing we could do sadly
So my buff orphington went broody 21 days ago and she crushed one of the eggs and killed the chick. Last night one of the chicks started to hatch and I left it alone. But when I went up there this morning, the chick was out of the box and was laying in between the pallets that we have for the...