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So I have a baby, egg was hatching, and flys got to it and when I saw it it was filled with baby maggots. I took it inside, broke the shell, put it under a heat lamp and flushed the maggots off. There was one in its nose and another in its mouth I couldn't get. And it's navel/umbilical thing is...

I just found a baby that got its shell pecked open by cannibals. Is there any way he might make it.

I have a Wyandotte hen and a Americana hen who are both doing terribly. The Americana is going down hill very very quickly and the Wyandotte has been like this for a few days and has started eating and drinking a little again. But seems to have some facial paralysis or something, cant keep her...

Im Not sure im my rooster groomer has bumble foot or not as I dont know what to look for. He isn't limping or anything. Thanks.

This is Fabio a beautiful rooster i got from my cousin and both me and him have no idea what breed he is. Depending on the lighting some of his feathers are either green, blue, purple. His feet are feathered to. Anyone know?

At about 4:50 this morning the fox came by an tried a surprise attack on my biggest rooster. I make the roosters sleep outside on a table next to the coop because there too horny. Anyway it looks like the fox came up behind him and grabbed him by the neck an tired to take him with him. Then king...

My poor slw hen looks like she was skinned alive and is severely traumatized about it. It smells really bad too. Is there anything else I can do besides spraying vetericyn and neosporin.

Most of my hens like laying in a bush on a hill behind the coop and lately something has been stealing them. Last night whatever is doing it left the shells nearby. I cant figure out whats doing it. They went missing during the day one time.

I've tried the traditional sadles with elastic an denim and they caused the poor test chicken to get attacked an freak out, it also looked like she was really uncomfortable. I'm wondering if there's anything out there that is different and will be more comfortable and cause them to not be attacked.

I have a 20 something week old Wyandotte hen and she cant walk. This started last night but it seemed like she just really needed to lay an egg so I put her in a nesting box. Come this morning she had moved 3 feet and was lying on the floor. She is eating and drinking normally and I can't tell...

here in california we are experiencing a heat wave and the night-time low is 82 for 1 hour. Its 90 at midnight. 12 of them are cold hardy breeds and they appear to be doing better then the ones the are not. I already have them with 5 water treys in the yard and 2 jn the coop 1 filled with...

I have a 7week old golden comet hen that has a chiped beak that was bleeding. This looks minor compared to the other ones I've seen here but I haven't found anything like this one. Is there anything I can do? I plan on spraying it with vetricin one more time an putting some nealsporn on there...

Is his toe broken? This is a 7 week old golden comet roo.

I have 20 almost 6 week old chickens and I want to know if anything else besides food water and the roost needs to be in when we first put them in. I plan on putting the nesting boxs in later. I plan on keeping them in the coop until they get large enough to not get picked off by the hawks then...

I'm looking for a simple not overly complex recipe for chicken food. I have 20 chcikens so far (4 golden comets hens 4 golden comets roos 2 Delaware roos and 10 silver wyandottes hens) I plan on adding hens to make it easier for everyone. Probably ones that others cant take care of anymore that...

I posted a similar thread when they were 3 days old an now there 5 weeks. I posted a thread yesterday with a picture of him in it an someone said it looked like a delaware. There are 2 like this both roos and they were mail order chicks supposed to be golden comets. We ended up with 4 hen an 4...

I haven't been able to find anything on the rules for a 2.5 acre property in the middle of nowhere in placer county. They don't have anything about it that I could find.

I would like to know if My 5 week old flock of 20 with 10 silver wyandottes, 8 golden comets and 2 unknows is going to have any problems with 4 to 7 roosters that were all raised together. The 4 that are definitely roosters are golden comets. There are 2 unknowns in terms of breed an sex (they...

I was wondering how high I'm supposed to raise the heat lamp. I keep raising it a inch or 2 but it isn't doing anything. Am I supposed to raise it significantly higher? There is 20 chicks and they are 11 days old.

Hello I am a new member who just got 20 chicks. 10 silver wyandottes and 10 golden comets though two of the comets look like a different species because they are white and black.