Does anybody have any success stories of their chicken with Marek's disease and giving them acyclovir or doxycycline? There is minimal research from what I have found but possible potential?
I'm so excited to say that 3 of my 5 fertilized eggs hatched!
They actually hatched last week on Friday/Saturday, they weren't 18 days like I thought in my previous post because turns out I was looking at a duck candling guide ha, silly mistake!
They all developed properly up until hatch day...
Bumblefoot is a B*** in my case one of my rooster facing bumblefoot issue since the age of 6months we changed our old home in and it become worse since then , pus , scab and hard black pointy portion around the scab tried almost everything written on internet , feel so bad watching him limping...
Hi all, I currently have four pet Hens, Rhode Island Reds, that need a new home as my parents moving and I won't be able to take them with me. I am very heartbroken about the situation, but finding a good home for them would ease that hurt. We got them 5/5/2020 and they were 7 weeks old at the...
Hi all! I'm relatively new here and I just was told by a few of y'all that my Dorothy is a cockerel, not a pullet. This has, quite frankly, put me in a highly anxious state as I have read here and there on this forum all about roosters. The general idea is that they are mean, mean, mean...
Our chicken Sunday has just had her first successful hatch. She's in the nesting box still hatching chicks so I'm wondering if I need to separate her. Do I remove her from the nest box? We have about 15 other hens will the chicks be safe? I've only experienced hatching in the incubator and...
Hello BYC!
So-- I've been waiting to post about this for awhile now because I didn't want to jinx it! But I finally think I can share my story:
I ended up with only 2 hens from an original 6 last April. I proceeded to get 6 more chicks and hatched 2 'legacy' chickens of my own (between March...