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  1. P

    Introducing new chickens to our ONE chicken...

    We are new to chickens after buying a home and taking over the care for them! We love them, and unfortunately after months of allowing them to free range, only one of our two returned home today. Knowing chickens are best in pairs and flock animals, we would definitely like to get more soon. On...
  2. C

    Guts or intestines hanging out of chick?

    I went out last night to check on my broody and oh dear, she got off her nest and took already hatched babies to a different location. I found one baby with the yolk sack still attached, cold almost dead and another pipped egg cold almost dead. I got them straight into the incubator and looked...
  3. Just Hatch duck

    ducks breeding...

    Hi, i have a drake and two ducks i recently separated them from my chooks because i found out they won't breed with chickens around... but its been a month or two and they started nesting but i think they aren't fertile because i candled them and can't find any veins or blood vessels but they...
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    • advice needed breeding chooks drake duck eggs nesting
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    • Forum: Ducks
  4. Just Hatch duck

    Ducks Eggs...

    Hi, I've just started breeding ducks and i have one male and two females, they started nesting about 3 weeks ago and one of my females leaves the nest all the time and I'm afraid they're getting cold, because her eggs have all gone black and she started with about 15 eggs and only has 3 left. I...
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    • advice needed duck eggs fertile fertile eggs fertile or not hatch nesting
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Ducks
  5. MissNutmeg

    Interesting Predicament

    Hey y'all I once again need advice on what to do. Okay so one of my lil buff orpington cocks has a very swollen ear with a big disgusting tick hanging off it, I spent the last hour trying to get the tick of with rubbing alcohol but it's not really working. I was thinking about trying to get it...
  6. citychknraising

    Any beekeepers here?

    Looking for somebody with beekeeping experience. I've been considering keeping bees and I just moved to a new home that backs up to a marsh (however, it is in a neighborhood), so it seems like a good opportunity to get started. - I've been told/read that you do not need a lot of land to keep...
  7. Birb Mom

    Hen Jerking her Head Around Weirdly, Something Stuck in her Throat/Crop?

    I don't think this is an emergency, I am not sure what it is. Okay, so on and off one of my 6 month old easter egger hens has been showing weird behavior. She stops suddenly and reels her head back, often stepping backwards into things. It looks like she's trying to swallow? My mom and I have...
  8. L

    Advice on fox proofing!

    Hello! I’m looking for some advice as I’m getting three silkie chicks and I want to make sure that their coop and run is as fox proof as possible. I have attached a picture of the run that I’ve bought and also of the chicks that will soon be coming to their new home ☺️ I will be purchasing run...
  9. Daisy Chickens

    Conures and Chickens (Diseases)

    I recently (Yesterday) gave my chickens away. 3 out of my 9 chickens got sick with fowl pox. It went away normally no chicken died. I have a cocktail and a dove in a cade in my backyard. In my backyard was where the chickens stayed. And I don't handle my Cocktail or dove at all (they're not tame...
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    • advice needed bird chickens in backyard cocktail conure disease question dove help wild bird disease need advice
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Other Pets & Livestock
  10. H

    Chicken very ill, need urgent advice

    Hi, my family are new chicken owners. We have 2 white Sussex hens. Recently we came back from holiday and found one of the hens incredibly ill. Whilst we were away we left her with relatives (I regret this greatly now!) And I think they told us that the hens coop would leak and get wet during...
  11. D

    Lethargic hen

    New to the forum, have been enjoying the useful information as an outsider for a little over a month, got out girls four weeks tomorrow. We have three hens, all were doing well until yesterday, and would really appreciate some suggestions of where to start. Our amber star is lethargic to the...
  12. M

    Baby chick with poultry lice

    I recently went and picked up 3 baby silkie chicks from a local breeder that is NPIP certified and didn't bother checking them out before introducing them to my other baby chicks. Come to find out they had poultry lice :( I haven't seen any on the other chicks but they are different breeds and...
  13. Daisy Chickens

    White spots on my chickens comb! Fowlpox?!?!?

    My flock consists of 1 silkie rooster, 1 silkie, 3 baby silkies, 1 lohmann brown, 2 barred rocks, 1 campine, 2 cucko marans. 1 silkie and 1 maran are raising the 2 baby chicks in my backyard. While the other chick is being raised by me. Anyways so I have a coop and a run for them to go outside...
  14. MIchickenlady

    How clean & remodel previously used coop?

    Hello everyone, I'm working on getting our previously used coop ready for our four new chickies-2&1/2 wks old right now. Were starting fresh, gave away the four hens we had when we moved. I'm trying to make the coop look like our house since it will be 25 ft away in the side yard. (See profile...
  15. SBmember

    Disinfectant

    Will "aroma controlled cleaning vinegar" sprayed in a wooden brooder then left to dry work as a disinfectant. The wood is porous and in our house so I hesitate to use anything that'll have to be sprayed or rinsed out. We have food grade safe for consumption distilled from corn and diluted with...
  16. SBmember

    Coccidiosis advice

    Looking for advice. Two of my 7 3 week old chicks seem to be ruffled and lethargic, eyes slightly closed at all times, still eating, drinking, but no bloddy stools. I know that for a moderate Coccidiosis outbreak it is 1 teaspoon I put it in a gallon of room temperature water and they are now...
  17. SBmember

    Liquid mucous oral

    I noticed some of our 3 week old chicks today are (lethargic, eyes slightly closed at all times, still eating, drinking, but no bloddystools) here is a link to my other post since I am unsure they are related ( www.backyardchickens.com/threads/coccidiosis-advice.1189523/) There is one that is...
  18. L P in San Jose

    Hello There! New to BackYard Chickens - Sq. Ft. Coop/Run for Orpingtons, Ameracaunas, Australorp?

    Hi! I'm so new I don't have my chicks yet--just in planning stages for an urban coop/run for some big ladies and some medium gals. I've done a lot of research already, but I get varying square footage spacing for chickens, in general. I can have up to 6, and they will be limited free range or...
  19. Sarah B.

    Should I help my chicks out? How and when?

    Now, I'm not overly worried. But if my chicks haven't hatched on day 24 (today is day 22) I'm going to help. Is that too early? If absolutely nothing has happened by tomorrow dinner time I'm going to do all the tests I can think of (float test, candle, tap the air bubble etc.) and if they...
  20. C

    First time incubating eggs 4 out of 5 stopped developing

    long story short.. my dad had a broody hen I bought her eggs to sit on then decided I wanted my own chicks... I stupidly bought a cheap incubator, put 6 eggs in it. I accidentally dropped one egg but the five I had left were developing now I have four that have stopped developing, the one that's...
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