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Do you know how I would find out for sure? We invested in some breeding pairs mainly for ourselves with kids in 4-H buts had hoped to sell some in the future.

I cannot detect any other symptoms. Her eyes don’t look swollen, just one gets a little foamy but not terribly so, just enough to notice. It seems like it is getting better. I guess I’m wondering if I treat the symptoms would I still be putting the other birds at risk with her being a carrier...

I have two sick hens since yesterday. The first is acting super lethargic. I can’t find anything wrong with her but she is falling asleep all the time and does not appear to be eating. I can’t find anything wrong with her other than a few mites which I’m now treating. Her crop was basically...

Ok I think the problem is identified. We have more bantams than I remembered- chicken math. We had a couple people ask us to take bantams that were getting bullied in their flocks and while they are getting along with our bantams we are short on roost space. Working on reaching out to friends...

Every night 4 or 5 of our bantams huddle together on this board to roost outside. I adjusted the branch I have inside the coop as a roost thinking maybe they didn’t like that it wiggled and that was why they didn’t want to sleep inside. I have moved them in to the coop a couple times to try to...

Let me preface this by saying these are not breeder quality birds- we are still learning and didn’t know any better when we started! My 9 year old has his 4-H poultry show coming up in 10 days. We have 2 australorps that could go but both have issues and we don’t know which one is a bigger deal...

Thank you! One of the hens we adopted is silver duck wing but I guess I only saw pictures of hens when I was searching.

We adopted 4 bantams that needed a home and I’ve identified the breeds and varieties of 3. I’m down to this little guy. He is built like an OEG bantam but I can’t find a picture that goes with his colors and markings. I think he’s about 12 weeks old. I increased the saturation to try to show the...

Since the innards were coming out more and more I put it to sleep. :( Thank you for your help. If I had asked here earlier in the day when it was only out a little it maybe could have been saved but by the time I posted I think it was already too late.

I’m trying to get up the nerve to make that decision. Apparently I didn’t have the humid high enough in the incubator even though I thought I followed the directions. QUOTE="Granny Hatchet, post: 22727973, member: 240746"] I have heard of a couple people having luck using q tips and antibiotic...

It is still acting alert and moving around normally but the contents have come out even more. 😭

Bantam chick hatched yesterday and o took it out of the incubator today. It has a red blob since I don’t know the exact term that is getting bigger. I was told it looks like it hatched too early. Is there anything I can do? It is walking around and acting alert but the getting worse part is what...

Thank you! I thought about doing that but wasn’t sure.

I have 13 hens and 3 black sex links- all of that variety and no other breeds- have runny poop that gets stuck and builds up in their feathers near the vent. It took me a while to figure out that the runny poop was coming from the same chickens. A few weeks ago when I really noticed it I got...

We have standard sized hens so I don’t need to rely on bantams for all our eggs but it would be nice for them to contribute. :) Yes I should have worded my “show quality” sentence better I just meant from better lines than the feed store so there is a better chance at them being show quality...

I’m glad to have found the Kansas thread! My 8 year old is in 4-H and we are looking in to getting a few breeder/show quality bantams. I am trying to find out what bantam breeders are in the area. As far as what breed of bantam, I’d like to get something that is a decent layer and probably...

I got rid of the eggs but the hen is still broody (obviously) so now what is the best/kindest thing to do? I’ve read about breaking broody hens when you don’t want them to sit on eggs but what about after they tried for 4 weeks? I suppose I could A- just keep taking the eggs and moving her out...

Thanks! I was wondering about that after not finding good matches on pictures. Some of the chickens that couple at the swap meet has looked a little rough and the two birds I got from them had mites so at least they’ll have a good life in our backyard flock even if not exactly what I thought I...

We’re going to wait until the weekend on the off chance something happens! Thanks for commenting!

My phone changes “pullet” to “pulley” every time and I never notice until too late when I post here!