I just found that my little girl is egg bound, so I searched real quick as to what to do and I ended up soaking her butt in warm water, her egg almost came out but it was covered in what appeared to be part of her insides.
What do I do? she looks like she's about to die??!
Well, I had posted this on facebook, and I had someone suggest to bring in a hen or two and keep them in a large kennel with hay food and water and try different things to get them to start laying, I did and I got my first two eggs, since about April, from my two Japanese hens yesterday. I have...
They all act normal, they don't act broody at all, I had that mentioned before, I don't think that's the case here.
I just bought 6 new bantam hens and I was told they were laying and still no eggs. Not even from them.
I forgot to mention, when they stopped laying nothing was changed at all, they all just quit laying or something is happening to the eggs, I need some help. It's kind of like having nothing but roosters out there.
I have about 12 hens, we have had the since about July of last year. They all were laying just fine up until about April. I have tried just about everything to try to get some eggs again but nothing is working. My guineas and ducks stopped laying too they all usually lay all the time.
They are...
I am terribly sorry but I have to say I disagree. Neither one are golden laced cochins.
I think they might just be mutt cochins. They are beautiful though.
I recently got 9 bantam hens, I got two blue cochins, two black cochins, one dominique bantam, one patridge cochin, one amaraucana bantam, and two that look like these.
I have no clue what to call this color. I think they are for sure cochins though.
Well now that I think of it the other day I sprayed air freshener throughout the house. I didn't know that it couldn't be near the incubator. I didn't excessively spray it near there though. I just sprayed around the corners of the room and then continued to the rest of the house.
No it did...
Throughout incubation the temp was a steady 99.5-100. The humidity was 30-40 until day 25 I raised it to about 60. They were clean eggs, the quitters didn't have blood rings, they just stopped developing. Collected from a clean coop, in the nesting boxes. They weren't handled a lot, I candle...
We had three guinea eggs in the incubator, two died at day 7 the other died on hatch day. I found this out through an eggtopsy, it looked normal to me except there was this brown goop on it. What are a few reasons why it wouldn't have hatched? I am trying to get the hang of incubating and doing...
None of my poultry are laying, can anyone tell me why???? I have about 30 hens, 5 guinea hens, and one duck hen. All of them are healthy, and they have plenty of roaming room, I know they aren't hiding them because I scoped out our hole property and didn't find anything, then I had someone else...
I still have until this thursday for my two out of 14 to hatch. Mine are guinea eggs. I think it was because the humidity kept going up and down that I only have two left. I haven't candled them at all since last tuesday. I will candle them tonight though to see, I don't think I will see...
Well, we have a whole cleared yard, and they only possible way I know of for them to hide them is if they are either nesting on the hen house, or jumping the fence. And I just did a walk in my neighbors yard looking for two missing roosters that had jumped the fence. I didn't find any eggs. We...