I need some help, I have these two 4 week old barred rock chicks. I can’t figure out if they’re both males or if one them is male and one is female. Please help me out!!
Okay so I walked out into my chicken coop to check up on the girls and I see my hen is tripping over everything looks like she’s trying to lay an egg tail down her butt is full of dried poop head down comb looks purple-Ish and is not at all bright red like it should be she keeps laying down and...
So I thought I had 3 hens (Silkie Seramas) and one Roo (smooth serama) but just today two of the one I thought were hens crowed! I know hens will sometimes crow but I am worried that I just have all Roos now (I can’t have Roos because of where I live). Can everyone please let me know based on...
Hi I’m new to keeping quail. This morning my dog got out and tried to jump on the quail cage. Unfortunately one of my quails was injured. She seems to be walking around ok I have her in a cardboard box in the bathroom. Her foot looks swollen. There was blood on the cage but I wasn’t able to see...
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I need your help right now, my 2 year & 10 month old leghorn hen started laying soft shelled eggs a month ago. I started to feed her 1 calcium tablet (600mg) daily for 4 days but didn't see her lay an egg anymore, so I stopped with the tablets. At that time, she was still acting...
I've just hatched a bundle of silkies, some from my hens and some bought.
The ones that are not from my hens have hatched and I've got one with wry neck, one with curled toes.
The one with wry neck is not doing well.
My question is, they are on medicated chick starter with added selenium (its...
I have a pair of mandarins that I got last winter. They didn’t lay last year and they haven’t started laying this year. They have a relatively large pen, a big bowl of water I clean out once a day, I feed them Mazuri food, and I have a wood duck box for them to lay in. What could be causing her...
I'm making a second post as I'm not sure who will see my response in my first.
I was staggering a few batches of silkie eggs. Batch one hatched beautifully and I have a bundle of lovely floofs. The day after my Mom had a stroke. I've been back and forth frequently, but I've also had my neighbor...
Can someobody help me please? My chickens comb is a yellowish weird color and it’s like crust or dead skin. What is this? She’s acting normal eating drinking laying etc and this happened just today. Any idea on what it is and if I should be worried? If I should be worried please tell me how to...
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I have a leghorn hen that is 2 year & 9 months old and today she was acting very lethargic with her feathers down, tail down. I came to the suspicion that she could of been suffering from vent gleet since her vent is all dirty and wet with this white discharge. I also noticed...
I need help you guys I am a new turkey owner and wanting to raise them! I have a royal palm Tom and a red bourbon hen. I’ve read several articles, but I’m not completely understanding! My question is , what will the babies come out to be from my royal palm tom and red bourbon hen?
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I have a 2 year & 9 month old leghorn hen that just started to show signs of sickness 1 day ago. I'm pretty sure she is not eggbound because she did lay an egg yesterday. She did not lay an egg today though (usually she lays daily). She is still eating and drinking but not as...
Okay so my rooster just recently died and i’m not sure why. He’s around a year old and had been acting weird the past few days. He was acting lethargic and tired. I didn’t notice him not eating/drinking but I don’t think he was doing much of either. A few days ago i decided to take a look at him...
One has Hatched day 21 (Wednesday) its now day 23 Friday evening still waiting for his siblings still have 3 in incubator 2 looked viable in a float test last night (day 22) and the third egg moved in the water so hoping it’s just variables from when they were under the hen for two weeks then...
My duck egg piped last night while I was asleep. Everything seems good. But I have this odd colour near by where it is pipping. Could this be a sign of shrink wrap?!
I have 4 brahmas, one rooster , 3 hens. Probably about 2? Years old I just got them a few months ago. I noticed poop in the run had this red in it??? They're acting normal and fine, none are acting sick, is it age or do I need to get corrid? I don't know which one is doing it. I only see to...
Hello everyone, I randomly came out to my backyard to check on my rooster and I found that one of his spur's went missing/broken and is bleeding. I'm assuming that his spur got stuck somewhere and therefore it broke. Does anyone know any cures or treatment to this? Please let me know ASAP if you...
I have a ten week old bantam rooster, who is already smaller than he should be (he hatched out that way). Yesterday I woke up and went to water and feed and noticed his eye had swelled up HUGE! The eyelid won’t even shut all the way, I immediately flushed it out with saline and put terramycin in...