When I set the egg on the counter, it moves because there’s a chick in it that’s fixing to hatch within a few days.
I found the bad egg. 🤢 it was one that the embryo didn’t make it.
I have some eggs in an incubator all the chicks appear to be alive in them they all respond to light when they’re being candled. But I have 1 eggs that smells so horrible.
It’s due to hatch in a few days but omg it smells god awful. 🤢🤢🤢🤢
I’ve never had an egg smell like this in the incubator...
The last upload is from the plumbs veterinary drug handbook. Might as well be the holy grail for them.
The first 4 are from a little pocket book and do not have all the medications listed a bird can take. It is just something I added so if anyone needed it they would have it.
This is a veterinary website veterinarians across the country use to get information or double check information it has medication dosing including meloxicam. We were told by an exotics specialist last year some time meloxicam for chickens was 0.50 mg/kg that was when my bosses parents chickens...
Yea he is not by any means a small rooster, he makes the other rooster look like he’s a dwarf. Before he was diagnosed I thought maybe he had a soft tissue injury in his foot because he is constantly making sure the other rooster doesn’t step out of line.
We have a book at work I am going to...
So my rooster was recently diagnosed with Bumblefoot. I just wanted to post the antibiotic that was prescribed for him. My son and I can really only do it once daily because I leave for work so early. So it has to be evenings.
I work in vetmed the doctor told me to try to get this compounded...
I noticed she doesn’t really run around like the other chickens she just meanders around slowly.
She isn’t pasty so I don’t suspect constipation however I did preemptively treat for that just in case.
I was reading it’s a sign of heat distress, but it’s 63 degrees and I just don’t really...
Only 6 months old. She was hatched last September.
She only just started laying eggs. And they’re still relatively small. I palpated her didn’t feel anything eggs stuck in her.
The only thing I can think of is while everyone was working out a pecking order she picked up an injury, or she’s...
Just wondering why she’s walking like this she does it all the time.
Temp is 63 degrees outside.
Eating normal
Drinking normal
Foraging normally
Just carries her wings weird see video
This is her 3rd successful hatch, only the first time the flock killed her chick. So I separate them now. Anyways, she’s experienced I am just worried about her not having bonded with this chick because she got up from it.
So I recently had a hen hatch a chick it’s about 3 days old now. She was laying on eggs when I moved her, however to raise her chick she stopped sitting on her eggs as I expected. However 1 was 2 days away from hatching and hatched last night in the incubator.
How do I introduce this little...
I’ve only heard 1 other egg chirping thru the egg. It didn’t hatch last night.
It’s not chirping today. All the eggs have live chicks in them tho I candled them and they were moving
Oh okay. I’ve never had to use an incubator before, my chickens always did the work but for some reason mom just got bored with it and stopped brooding and that left me having to use the incubator.
I don’t have anything that are brooding right now, and I don’t want it going out there to die.
One of the other eggs was moving and chirping but it hasn’t started the hatch phase yet.
These eggs were laid on 7/13 and mom got up and left them. So I put them in the incubator after that. I pull...
So I have some eggs that were laid on 7/13/2024.
To my surprise one of the eggs started hatching a week early, which is weird because all the other ones with babies in them aren’t even trying I can hear them in there but they aren’t trying.
This one had the egg shell broke and it was out. It...
So it’s been several months since mom lost her baby she grieved for awhile and has since moved on and started brooding again.
The problem is she’s suffocating the chicks that hatch. She had killed 3. They don’t have a chance because she refuses to move and they die.
Can she be suffering from...