Recent content by hypnozze

So this is her this morning - Her eyes look alert. I gave her water yesterday and today (she drank). Could it be wry neck or some disease perhaps? Or maybe some trauma? No mites on the roosts.

Thank You for the advice! I will try and give the less fatty food from now on. I have not dewormed my chickens ever - I give them whole pumpkins regularly. And have not observed any worms in their poop. The grown up feed has about 16% protein and the chick feed has about 19% protein. The feed...

That is true - I found her like this (this morning) and filmed her. Because there was nothing wrong with her yesterday or in the evening when i closed their house for the night.

I won't be able to tell that because I have 10 Speckled Sussex hens in total and can't really see whose laid and whose not.. no big changes in egg quantities. They all seem pretty heavy to me when I hold them so did not feel that she was abnormal weight wise but everything could be - I had one...

Thank You for the advice! I dusted with DE everything repeatedly and will go and put some of that tape around roosts. I have made some changes to the permissions of the video - can You see it now?

Here is the link to the video - And thank You LaFleche for the advice - I could not get the video on here at all :) No i have not checked for mites, I will. But I do use some DE powder in the shavings regularly so was hoping it was not a problem..

Hello! Can You please help identifying the problem my bird has? I noticed I was missing one hen after letting everyone out in the morning. I found my bird like this (please see video below) in the morning and set it out of on the ground for some fresh air. We have a big heat wave for some...

Thank You all! To be on the safe side - I baked those shells and put them in the compost :) They do seem very britle and I will better not risk it by giving them to my hens.

Thank You both! :) I have heated them in the oven and these shells seem to be a lot thinner than the non-hatched ones. Interesting :)

Hello everyone! After incubation and hatching a lot of dry and quite clean eggshells are left and I was wondering if I could use them the same way I use unincubated eggshells - by crushing them and heating them in the oven for 10-20 min at 200C and later giving those crushed shells to my hens...

Late update: Chick No.1 was a rooster who found a new home and a new flock and Chick No.2 is a hen who has just started to lay beautiful blue eggs at the age of 4.5 months :)

A bit late for an update but if others are in a similar place where I was with sexing those little marans then maybe You'll find this useful - both of my Marans chicks were roosters. And both found new homes with a hen flock for each :)

Wow! Thank You for Your reply! I will look into all Your presented links. Thanks a lot :) I only have Speckled Sussex birds, no Light Sussex so I am guessing the SS that I purchased may not be as "clean" as I have hoped it would be :(

Hello everyone! I have a flock of Speckled Sussex chickens and have been hatching their offspring since this spring and I was wondering if it was possible to create a sex-linked offspring from them? I am somewhat familiar with how sex-lined chicks are achieved in hybrids but I do not know is...

Nice! Thanks for the photos :) It looks like I might have another cockerel then.. :D