I have this flock consisting of 10 hens and 2 roosters
I have never let them out of the coop before because they were still young now that they have started laying i wanna let them out to forage and graze in the field but i’m not sure how to ensure they will come back to their coop and if they...
i have this young rooster he’s 5 months old but his comb is fallen to the side of his head instead of straight up
he’s very normal and thinks he owns the flock and keeps pecking on others
is it normal for such a young bird to have such a comb ?
i had some eggs in the incubator they started hatching a couple days back now i was moving them to the brooder and i realized one of them had one eye on his left side and on his right side a big scar and theres a yellow (egg yolk like substance) inside this scar
he seems to be doing fine so far...
i got a new hatch of baby chicks in an incubator theyre about 2 days old today but there this one chick that doesn’t seem too well
it just lays flat like this all the time and it’s belly seems a bit weird
other chicks are jumping and moving around but this one just keeps laying down and theyre...
this 13 day old chick is jerking back and forth opening it’s beak and then closing it very quickly like it’s gasping for air
it seriously looks like it’s dying
i can’t post a video but here are some pictures
i really have no idea whats wrong with them
i have 34, 10 day old baby chicks they have been doing perfectly fine since they hatched in the incubator
usually when i reach in the brooder to fill water and feed they start running around
today as i was filling their waterers i found some of them just sitting still eyes shut and chirping so...
i have 3 day old baby chicks
i gave them the BIO-VAC B1 for the newscastle disease vaccine yesterday via drinking water
today one of the chicks was doing fine but then when i came back about half an hour later to check on them i found it dead and a yellowish liquid was drooling out of it’s...
I had eggs in the incubator and yesterday they started hatching.
all the chicks seem well and healthy but theres this one baby between them it was born with a twisted leg that goes to his side kind of like perosis but it can’t be a nutritional deficiency because the chick came out of the egg...
my flock lives in an open space with some pigeons but they sleep in different coops the pigeons live in a big coop hung over the ground so the chickens can’t get in but they have a common area where they feed and just roam around
they didnt likr each other at first but now they have been living...
last night something got into my coop and i found all 4 of my hens dead except for the rooster who was the only survivor left.
he’s all alone now and he’s acting very sad and kinda depressed
i know i should get him some company and i will get some other chickens but for the time being could...
yesterday one of my hens was almost paralyzed she couldnt walk or even stand up she just layed down with her legs stretched back but she was eating and drinking when i got feed next to her
i thought she could be egg bound so i gave her an espsom salt bath dried her up and let her rest
today...
my chickens have recently started eating their eggs. there seems to be no nutritional problems regarding their feed so i installed rolling nest boxes in order to stop them from accessing the egg so they stopped laying in the nesting boxes and started laying the eggs randomly around the coop and...
my chickens started laying eggs a couple months ago, everything was normal for a while until i started getting no eggs i just realised they were eating their eggs, not the entire egg just the eggshell and the white but i’m finding dried tolks in the nesting boxes.
i haven’t changed their diet...