One of my poults is choking! i think she can still breathe, but she has a huge knot of food stuck in the top of her neck. She is about 4 months old and shes living outside. I was feeding them extra unmedicated chick food (they were raised on chick food for the first couple of days until I could...
I just got 2 adorable poults and I have no idea how to house them when they get older. What kind of shelter should i build for them/ what about nest boxes? Any other turkey tips?
I have 4 about 5 or 6 months old chicks, and one of them is a silkie. she is constantly left behind by the other hens and they bully her out of eating treats and wont let her follow them around, she usually sits back in the trees a few feet away from the others, even the rooster ignores her...
im sure there are a thousand of these threads on here, but my ay old D'uccle chick is lethargic after traveling for about an hour from the feed store. Ive tried sugar water and save-a-chick but she wont drink them. what else can I do?
oh and all the other chicks are happy and healthy.
I'm ordering chicks from Meyer hatchery, and you know the minimum rules. They will be here in late February, I'll be ordering them in the next few days so if you want a specific breed tell me soon. I can deliver in island county and possibly as far out as Bellingham/Marysville.
One of my chickens just died. For the past few days shes been lethargic, she hasent been walking around with the rest of the flock and she will just stand there with her eyes 1/2 closed and her feathers puffed out. She has also been moving slowly and she was only about 2-3 years old. Does anyone...
My 4 new pullets keep trying to go in the coop at night but my 3 older hens wont let them and force them out so they end up perchingin a tree. Im worried racoons will get to them because thats how mt last 3 chickens died. What should I do?
how old will my chicks be before the roosters start crowing? Mine are 5 weeks right now and im pretty sure they are all pullets, so i want to get a rooster, but i wouldent want to end up with 2 roosters and only 6 pullets.
How old should they be when they go outside for good? Mine have all there...
how old will my chicks be before the roosters start crowing? Mine are 5 weeks right now and im pretty sure they are all pullets, so i want to get a rooster, but i wouldent want to end up with 2 roosters and only 6 pullets.
How old should they be when they go outside for good? Mine have all there...
how are the chicks from greenfire farms? i know they are pricy but im really into the odd looking creatures. (the sad part is i just got 4 chicks and my mom says thats all i can get this year, plus my coup only holds 6 birds... chicken math.. not working.) How reliable is this hatchery? who has...
I am tottaly new to this. ive had chickens for 2 years but ive never had a turkey. so i want to know as much as i can about turkeys before i consider getting one. I have 3 full grown chickens and 3 more chicks coming soon, would a turkey get along with them? is there any way to sex a turkey...
my family recently got a puppy that is incredibly smart and trainable. we got her instead of a full grown dog so the dog wouldent kill our chickens. and now she has killed the mom of our chicks. ( the rooster is taking great care of them now). so my question is what are some ways (besides the...
one of my hens was recently killed by our new puppy after hatching her second clutch.
in her first 2 hatched, but one was killed by a hawk.
the other grew up to be an amazing glorious rooster.
now that rooster is taking care of his 2 little 2 week old sisters. he sits on them to keep them warm...
My silkie bella had her first real clutch. The first 2 chicks to hatch were very healthy and cute. But now 4 days later none of the other eggs have hatched and bella has given up on them. She hasent been sitting on her eggs for about 24 hours so i know they are dead. every time she left the nest...
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I have 2 silkie roosters and a small flock of hens.
the roosters have been fighting a lot recently
both the roosters are very tame and they and nice to people.
whats the best way to stop the fighting without selling one or killing one because Im very attached to them both they are good family...
My hen appers to be broody but she hasent laid an egg since she started acting like this 4 or 5 days ago. she used to have a huge meaty breast to and now its all gone and i can feel her bones. whats wrong?