I have a couple questions about raising meat chickens (like Cornish cross or freedom rangers).
1. I was thinking about starting them late spring again (May, our temps in texas late in the month are very high and the chicks would need minimal heat). That being said, is it safe to have a heat lamp...
my baby chick won’t stop chirping but when i’m around it stops ? but even if i have my red light on it chirps but when im around it stop but i turned off my red light cause im taking care of her inside my house nd i dont wanna cause a fire. what should i do ?
i have an incubator box for my baby chicks it’s meant for my eggs but the mom already killed 2 so i took these in and put them in my incubator so they can be warm and i also have a cardboard box they have food,water,and fresh flakes to walk on but i was wondering many times throughout the day...
i’m using a incubator for my baby chicks how many times should i take them out for food or water or should i get red lamp or other things to keep it warm ?
Hi. About two days ago I was gifted a baby chick, I named her hamlet. I set up her little place in a box with newspaper, water and rice (we didn't have any feed), hamlet just layed down and slept. Few moments later she started drinking water and became more alert, chirping loudly and ate some of...
Hi everyone! I came to check on my chicks and noticed their waterer leaked out all of the water from the night before! I quickly refilled it and they drank a ton! My one chick, a golden comet, began spitting her water up a few moments after. Could it be that she just had too much to drink...
when my three older chickens were little they would follow me around like i was their mom. now i have two new chicks that i’ve had for about a week and they don’t follow me. what do i do
ok so i have 3 roughly 2 month old chickens that i raised with no problem. i had 4 but a predator got one. that was my first time raising chicks. i recently got 2 new chicks that are a few days old. i noticed one had something attached to her nostril and i managed to get it off. then i noticed...
I have a pair of society finches which I bought in September from Petsmart, and they built a nest in their food container so I just let them since they re built it after I kept taking it away, they successfully had 4 baby chicks, but when I saw them after Checking daily, they were not breathing...
Every other day my baby chick is very active but today when I got home she fell asleep in my palm she's keeps opening her mother as she sleeps I move the chick constantly and she wakes up but closed her eyes rigth away plz help
So I am new to this, and there are a few questions I still have not found direct answers to after doing lots of research.
Background: My chicks (10) are currently being kept in doors with their heat lamp on medicated chick starter. I live in Canada and it is winter therefore they are not...