Hey everyone, I’m new here but would really appreciate some help. I have recently been raising 3 new chickens for our small flock. My Australorp (named Squall) has been a lot smaller than the others but was eating, she seems to be getting worse. Really wobbly and sleepy, she cries a lot too but...
For the past few days, our cockerel has had trouble breathing. After crowing, he takes a deep breath, and after walking a few steps, he takes another deep breath. You can hear a wheezing sound from his neck or mouth, and he has lost his appetite. Additionally, he has numerous wounds on his comb...
I had an egg alone in an incubator (wasn't even sure if viable just did it for fun) and it ended up hatching at 2 am out of the blue. I took it from the incubator and into a very warm cushioned "brooder". The baby chick couldn't walk without shaking and falling over and within an hour of hatch...
We recently brought 2 chicks at our home.This is nepali breed called "Giriraj.". Can you help us to identify genders of these chicks?These chicks are around 15 days old.
I have six call duck eggs in my incubator at 99.5 heat and 60 humidity. They showed great development for the first 13 days and moved around alot, but for the last 3 DAYS they have showed zero movement at all:( have I lost them. The humidity dropped low over night twice, but it didn't seem to...
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my quail hatched four chicks two days ago and they are doing great; but she was brooding six eggs and when the four I mentioned before hatched she just left the nest.
So I took the other two eggs since she was ignoring them, I looked at them through light and saw that they were...
So we had a batch of eggs hatch last week and we had some late hatchers. The last chicken hatched about 3.5/4 days ago and the day she hatched we noticed a really pinkish red blob of some sort hanging from her and she was dragging it around. We didn’t know what it was or what to do so we...
First time duck owner here, I have 3 ducklings who've been healthy so far until 3 days ago when one of them stopped eating and started acting very lethargic. As of this morning, she's constantly panting, even though she's in a cool area. She is drinking and pooping, her poop is mainly liquid but...
I got day old chicks, but when I opened the package two were on the floor. They couldn’t move and their eyes were closed. They started to hyperventilate and twitch. Then they just died.. I did everything the pamphlet said. I’m now down to five chicks and two more have started. I have had chicks...
This is my chicken Mulan and his eye is swollen shut. I tried to look in his eye it is all pink and looks like tissue. I can't see the orange color in his eye or his pupil. I don't know what happend or what to do please help. I really want to save his eye.
Hello! So I work at a small feed store that has baby chicks. Sometimes when we get the chicks from the hatchery through the mail, the chicks are very weak. What’s the best thing I can do for them? I tend to see that before a chick dies it will like open its mouth but not make a noise and stretch...
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We recently had two 4-week old pekin ducklings die within two days of each other. We had them on our property for around 3-weeks, they were fine until they died.
We though the first one died due to bad luck, however the second death leads us to think it was a disease or something...
My hen is 4 years old and she has had very abnormal poops for 4 months now. I can’t seem to get down to the bottom of what’s going on with her. Here is a picture of what it almost ALWAYS looks like. Please help!!!!! I don’t know what else to do.
I have a little baby chicken which is sick. We have 11 but only the sick one is a hen. she won’t open her eye, and slowly falling asleep. one eye is open the other i put water on to moisturize it and I noticed that it’s I was not in the right place and it was blue. I don’t know what’s wrong with...
Hello can someone please help me fast my chicken keeps opening her mouth and then lays down and her body is almost trembling or shaking? Her head does not move only her body and then she acts okay later but then opens her mouth again she looks normal and nothing out of the ordinary for her...
Lost a 1 1/2 month old chick today to a raccoon (the black one). I had 2 (3 before I lost one to coccidiosis) chicks and now I have just the one. Should I get another 2 chicks from the same age? I read it's a good idea but also read it might just add more stress to my already traumatized chick...
It’s not easy getting a photo, but would guys assist with this (brown) egg? It should be able to breathe bc I’ve seen it’s beak. It might be 12 or 24 hours, my new hatched chicks have been playing soccer with the unhitched eggs.
It’s Day 21 and I have one unzipping (and perhaps unknown pips.)...
Yo I just chocked my incubât hen and here was a small chick that just hatched it was lying on the ground helpless and the mother was still incubating the rest so it was dying so I brought it inside with me
Plz anyone what am I suppose to do now ????
My chick pooped blood in its poop: its watery poop, she keeps on sneezing, she doesn't really want to drink water. Does she have coccidiosis? how can I help her? She is a 1 month old chick