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Like I said, this sounds NOTHING like a crow but I don't know why these two are doing it, and they both sound the same. My mic to my computer is across the room, so during the entire clip all the chicks are peeping, just too quite to hear except one loud one. About 17 seconds in the chick starts...

It is not a distress cheep. I will try to see if I can record it, and i'll give you an update. It sounds NOTHING like a rooster crow, but it also is not normal "chick talk" and only these two chicks are doing it..

I will try to explain this the best I can.. I really really didn't want roosters this year, so I bought some hatching eggs from someone who claimed they were red sex links. As I stared at the incubator for hours during hatching, white chick after white chick pops out, then white chick with red...

Whew, you guys were right. I came home from work and all was well with that chick, however.. Another chick seems a lot smaller than the others that hatched during the day. It has what looks like a long rope of..something coming out of it that is about three inches long. This wouldn't be...

I woke up this morning to three red star chicks in the incubator, and one coming out of it's egg. One of the chicks that hatched through the night has a red blob about a centimeter in diameter sticking out of it.. Is this something that will go back in or dry up as it's fluffing in the...

Someone gave me a couple of duck eggs to incubate, but I have no idea the breed. They are white, and about to same size of my brahma chickens' eggs. Anywho, I am on day 21 and I candled. The entire egg is filled (except air sac) and I can barely see movement because it's filled so much. My...

Thanks for all the advice!! He seems to be coming along quite nicely. I took him out in the pasture today and he was trotting around "pop-corning" in the air. He is about 7 days old now. I found out he is a Katahdin. I can't find a whole lot of information on them, but it's good to know in any...

Thanks for the advice! Now, another question for you lamb/sheep owners. Since he is a male, am I going to have a problem with agressive head butting?? I am planning on neutering in about a week, but does castration solve that problem??? He is not butting me yet, but I am so new to this and...

I work at a large animal vet clinic, so we have many different animals come in all the time. One of the vets went out on a call to a farm, and called me asking if I wanted to take a 3 day old lamb. The mother had died giving birth to twins, and the sibling died yesterday. The farmers did not...

Lol yes, like the chick. I need to post pics. It's not the crop.

At least that is what I call it. I don't know how else to explain it except that some of my banties have a very broad chest (with two what I cal "lumps"), and some chicks (5 weeks) have just a smaller "single chest". I think the "double chests" look like roos...Hmmm maybe I should post pics. I...

Is this some sort of known problem??? I have one doing that right now that I hatched out 4 days ago... I tried to spradle leg treatment and no luck. I have to keep it seperated from the other chicks because they pick on it, so I only let one or two chicks run around with it while I am watching...

What's the update on this chick?

Well I am hoping that there is something I can do. How long should I keep the splint on before giving up? Ahhh this is so depressing.

Well I put the "splint" on using the band aid like the picture. However, he seems to put all his weight on one side and still can't actually stand. In fact most of the time if he is sitting up at all, he is sitting on his "elbows" and butt, with his feet in the air. Has anyone had this happen?

I have ten light brahma eggs that just hatched. Today is day 22, so the last one is hatching now. However, the first chick that hatched (on day 19 - 10:00pm) cannot stand up like the other chicks. It lays on its stomach and stretches one leg out, and kind of rotates in a circle. The other leg it...

Every chick I had ever know had done this... I always assumed it was the chicks way of yawning, but obviously if every chick I have had did it, it wasn't a serious problem.

I have a boxer, and had chickens at the same time. He was fine with them as long as we were watching. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of going to get the mail, and as I turned around, he was throwing one in the air like a ball. It did not survive, so I would never let a boxer with chicks...

Quote: Well what would a guinea do for a chicken? Sound an alarm? My chickens are pets, (meaning I wont eat them, and I want them tame), and all the guineas I have encountered are spookish. I would think they would make my chickens anti-social.

Quote: Well, I really want goats as pets, but I thought it would be an extra plus against the two hawks that come soaring over almost daily, and there are not even chickens out there yet! Another thing I noticed, I let my 3 week old chicks run around yesterday in the nice weather, and if I...