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Looking for some insight on Marek’s disease so I can be prepared... google searches have conflicting info so I’d like to hear your experience. I have a pullet who was hatched Nov 14th, so she’s about 15 weeks old. Four days ago she started hobbling, two days ago the toes of one foot curled in...

Please help! Is this an oozing rotten egg? Today is day 21 and I have three chicks that have hatched, waiting on three more. None have pipped from what I can tell. Got home from a morning out and noticed this color in the incubator tray, thought maybe the chicks had started pooping. Chick...

Today is Day 20 of my incubation and I woke up this morning to a perky chick staring at me as I was refilling the incubator with water- it scared me because I was obviously not expecting that at 4 AM! That chick is doing well and I noticed at the same time that another egg had pipped! When I...

Hello! I recently bought barred rock chicks locally to add to my flock. My intentions are to breed them because barred rocks are my favorite and no one has them in my area. Anyway, now I’m worried that I may have quite a few sex links. But I don’t know much about them to say for sure! I have...

Hi everyone- I know this is not the first post about a lethargic chick- but I can’t quite get an answer anywhere. My 6 day old barred rock chick (by characteristics I’ve sexed her as female) is likely not going to make it. This isn’t my first time raising chicks but I’ve changed just about...

Hi everyone! I’m very new to all of this. My father in law had chickens for a year or two so he is the only other source of info I have... he lives on our property and is always available. We just got a flock of 26 birds- 22 hens, 1 rooster, and 3 ducks (1 drake). We bought them from friends...