I just hatched my very first three, I think I will move them all tomorrow. There are six eggs in total two more are pipping. She is hatching them in the large coop where there are two roosters and about 12 other hens that roost there at night so I feel like I need to move her. I have a Brooder...
Thank you, both of them had fluffy bums up until a few days ago. Then this one lost all of its fluff, maybe it is a Rooster? Or maybe it just hasn't grown feathers, he or she acts perfectly fine just like her sibling so I will watch it and see. They have been in a Brooder, but I have moved them...
I have 23 week old chicks I bought at Rural King. They are pretty much identical, although one has a naked bum and the other has a fluffy bum. Both act perfectly fine, there is no pasty butt. It just is naked. The first photo is the naked bum. The second photo is that chicks sibling. Don't know...
I have 30 hens 4 female guineas and three sooooo chill roosters. I had 2 roosters before I hatched these 3 roosters and I did keep them penned up but all of my animals free range all across the farm, they are not fenced or cooped, when I pinned up the other two roosters, they became very mean...
Several of my chickens have completely bare necks, picked all the way down to the skin, they were chicken saddles. Don't come up high enough check their neck. Any suggestions? The saddles work great, their feathers are growing back in, but their necks are completely bare.