Found one of my hens limping today and when I checked her, I found she had a severely swollen leg joint. Anybody have this happen before? Looking for advice on what to do.
After being gone all day, I came home to collect eggs and found one of my females completely scalped. She was in a pen with 4 other birds, and she had one eye severely damaged and it looked like either bleeding or the wound that extended down behind the top of the wing a bit. I didn’t look too...
This is a follow up to my last post about my 9 week old birds not laying. They’re now 10 weeks old, under 16 hours of light, with plenty of food and water. I started them on a layer crumble last week. Still no eggs, but the males started crowing.
Do males mature quicker? In other words, do...
I have a raised rabbit hutch with young birds. I have solar paneled lights on the outside that provide light to the open part of the cage, but there’s also an enclosed section. The birds haven’t started laying yet at 9 weeks. Do you need to put a light on the enclosed section as well as the open...
Hey all! We just incubated our first batch of quail and had to assist this young bird during the zip stage where it became stuck. It came out with this growth or protruding on its butt. Does anyone know what this is? What can we do to assist it?