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We got an incubator about a month ago and set 15 chicken eggs. With the first candleing, we pulled three due to no development, the second check around two weeks, we ended up pulling nine more, and only leaving three. Of those three, one started pipping internally on day 22 in the...
Hello everyone writing this in a hurry it's cold here and my hen suddenly started sneezing hard and gasping for air badly she's walking around and stuff but it looks scary she also keeps scratching her nose, i gave her some vet rx and put some vapor rub on her feathers to help her breathe ANYONE...
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...
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I have a baby Salmon Faverolles who was active and spunky Thursday and Friday; running, eating, drinking, curious about everything, very social. Today she has been unsocial, sets herself away from the others. She just stands where placed then eventually lays there. It’s been a huge...
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Last week on 6/21, I took home 7 baby chicks. 6 of them are the same size/seem to be the same age, and the other is about 2x the size so I assume older. The woman I got them from did not let me know - I *think* the younger ones are a week or two old, and the larger one 2-3 weeks.
A few...
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I have some sad news. I have this three week old baby silkie chick. Last Thursday I noticed this on her bottom eye lid and assumed it was a cut from another chick that had gotten infected? The first picture is what it looked like last Thursday.
I started treating it like a cut...
First time chicken owner here. I got 21 chicks, that are 1 week old now. I have 9 polish, 5 easter eggers, 5 speckled sussex and 2 olive eggers. They came from a hatchery. They've been on medicated feed since coming home. Their brooder is 8' x 4' and I use a Ecoglow 1200 brooder plate for their...