I just started everyone on Durvet Vitamins and Electrolytes. It has 200 mcg of b12 and 7mg of riboflavin.
If it's a curled toe paralysis, do chicks typically recover and start walking again?
from this thread....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1148255/2-chickens-down-mareks
Here is a video of the chick that started limping last night, now his foot is looking odd, and all balled up, and he can't walk. The foot wasn't like that before last night. This chick has been running...
Not that I can think of. They were completely enclosed in the garage until I moved them outside. Then they were in an enclosed coop. I bought new shavings and a new bag of feed last night. I'm going to completely clean anything, and use new feed and shavings in the coop. I bought vitamins and...
I'm not sure what is going on with this new little flock, at this point I'm leaning towards Mareks :-( ....?
Chicks hatched Nov 26. I kept them inside until December 27th when I moved them to my outdoor coop. I didn't have any other chickens in there, I had passed on my old girls that weren't...
I have 11 chicks that I'm about ready to move to my outdoor coop. They are 4 weeks and 4 days old. They are fully feathered except they have some downy feathers on their butts. I've kept them in the garage since they were hatched. We live in San Diego, and my outdoor thermometer says it's been...
They definitely aren't hiding the eggs. We have a teeny backyard, we'd find them. Plus, I've kept them in for a week and still nothing. I'm not 100% on the age of the newbies. I'm guessing 4-5 months. I'm not expecting them to lay, just the older hens. 2 of the older hens are Lavendar Amerucana...
I have 5 hens. Three of them I hatched out of our incubator in November. They started laying eggs in May. We were getting 2-3 eggs a day for about a month. Then one of my hens went broody. She stopped laying eggs completely, and the others slowed down as well. Then we were only getting about 1...
I know the black one is a rooster, he's the crowing one. But the grey? He looks exactly like the other one, so I'm assuming rooster as well, unless you guys say otherwise.
I'm 99% sure these guys are roosters. I feel so dumb, I pulled out the roosters at 7 weeks, and these guys looked like hens. So for the past months, I haven't had any thought that they might be roosters, until I heard crowing from the back yard last week! Any thought about breed?
This is my only picture of the eggs before hatch. The "Blue Amerucana's" were supposed to be the 3 eggs in the top of the photo. They look really green in the picture, they really were more of a blue green. Hrmmm maybe an EE, instead of a BA? I guess that's okay, we just wanted funky colored...
It was so easy to sex the last chickens we had. This bunch I'm having trouble with. They all sort of pick on each other but 1, which made me think I had all roosters and only one hen. But they are 5 weeks and 1 day now, and by looks, I'm thinking I only have a few roosters .
I have 7 chicks...
I have one chick that pipped on Monday night. We could hear it cheeping and everything seemed fine. All the other eggs pipped and hatched yesterday. There was no progress on that egg yesterday, I thought maybe the chick died. This morning the egg was cheeping, and there was more of the shell...
Are some chickens just noisier than others? My chickens are a little over a year old. We raised them from chicks, and they are sweet and lay lots of eggs. But they are getting really really noisy. I'm sure it's driving my neighboors crazy, because it's driving me crazy! They squak for at least 2...