This might be a dumb question, but if a bantam and a regular sized chicken breed and I incubate the bantam's eggs, which are small, is this going to cause a problem for the chick? Will it be too big for the egg?
I left my four quail chicks that are 2 days old in my brooder and when I came back an hour later, they were dead. I though maybe they suffocated since the room was super, super warm. I tried cpr, but the air I breathed into their mouth only reached some bubble above their shoulder and would not...
I recently bought my second batch of chickens on Wednesday, ( 6 female Sussex and 1 don’t know gender yet Crevecoeur ). The first day they seemed fine had little pasty butt here and there nothing alarming. The next day I started to see a little pecking when it came to the 1 crevecoeur and the...
Hi! First, Admins, you're doing a GREAT job and I love you and obviously love BYC. Two things you could help me with:
1. When I'm going through my Alerts, I notice that some of them, not all, have tiny little yellow "sunshine" looking icons in them. They don't always go away after I click on...