Hi, i recently got 2 new chicks (one maran, one black silkie) and the maran is sneezing a lot. She is about 4 weeks old. I guess she's been sneezing a little bit for a while, but today it's getting really bad. She has a very wet sneeze, and is making loud watery bubbling sounds when she...
If i can get a hold of them,(i can't even get up to their door to knock 'cause they have this little gate around their doorstep) we'll definitley have a "chat". only problem is, no one takes a 17-year-old like me seriously exept my teachers.
It's out, and animal control is on its way. I'm so sad. it looks like it had been in there for hours, long enough to eat my roo and kill+bury my girls...
I'm getting very sad about my babies. I turn them and watch them and really come to love them, but they never make it. I get so depressed when I open them and they were almost fully formed when they died. they were just so cute...
I do have a pretty cheap Chick-Bator, but it still makes me cry...
my aunt just found this egg in her yard. we have no clue what layed it, or wheather it will hatch. she has no chickens near her neighborhood, and her yard is surrounded by a six-foot fence. what is it?!?
... did my image work?...
anyway, if it doesn't work, the egg is the size of a medium...
I got my first 2 chicks last summer. Turned out to be a hen and a roo. Since my hen started laying, my boy started challanging me daily.
But I've found a solution!
Cattails!!
I showed him a cattail and he pecked at it once. The fluff expanded in his face, and he SQUAWKED and ran to the...