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Hi so these 3 chicks are around 5 days old. Is anyone able to sex them by their wings.

Hi guys So I want to introduce my chickens to a dust bath this spring but not sure what to use. I plan on using a shallow tubrug for the container and using soil from my garden mixed with kids play sand and some diatomaceous earth. Would that suffice? I’ve heard of people using wood ash but I...

Hi all, Hope everyone is well. Just wondered when do people start incubating eggs? I usually start around March time as that is when spring kicks in for us in the UK and the weather is starting to get better, and I usually stop around July so the birds are a decent size when winter hits. What...

Hi guys. I believe my flock is infected with M. Gallisepticum. They are chicks around 4 months old and are constantly sneezing, have bubbles in their eyes, nasal discharge and quite lethargic. This has been going on for around 5 days now and was doing some research and believe it may be that. I...

Hi, I have a silkie-polish cross cockerel who is around 8 months old. He is acting perfectly normal ie eating drinking pooping etc. However when he breaths it sounds like a wheeze/gurgling sound and was wondering is this a chest infection? And is there anything I can do to treat this?

Hi all! So I hatched out 11 eggs from 14 in my Brinsea maxi II advance. However when I was reading through the instructions on the incubator and watching the Brinsea videos on YouTube they say to go into lockdown 2 days before hatching. I’ve always believed it was 3 days before (so lockdown on...

Hi folks, new to incubating here. So I have a Brinsea maxi II advance and my eggs are on day 7 of incubation so I candled them to see how they’re getting on. Temperature has always stayed at 37.5 - 37.6. Never seen any other than this. Also for humidity I’ve always kept 1 half of the reservoir...