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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...

yesterday it was drinking and eating just fine i dont know what it is but whatever is happening to them it happens fast one day they will be playing around the other theyre unable to move i tried isolating it from the flock so i put it in a small box with food and water but it didn’t make it

i’m glad yours are doing better and i hope that no one experiences this because it really is exhausting and nerve wrecking so far 5 have died since they started this whole thing

i don’t know what to do with these birds anymore i keep the brooder as clean as possible and change the shavings every 2 to 3 days i have washed the brooder with bleach and let it dry in the sun twice i have given them the B1 vaccine and supplemented their water with electrolytes and...

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 got back from the vet he said that it doesn’t look like a virus or a disease and it’s probably too much heat he gave me some antibiotics and supplementary vitamins he said that the wooden box shouldnt cause any health issues but it would be better for them to be in a bigger plastic...

the eggs i incubated werent from my chickens i have sussex orpingtons australorp and some plymouth rock these chicks are araucanas i bought the eggs from a local family

yes i know the container is rather small i usually keep them in a bigger oval shaped one in the garage but we’re changing tiles and repainting so i can’t put them there i have to keep them inside the house and i had a bigger 120watt bulb but it burned this morning so i had to use a smaller one...

no i haven’t put anything in their water but it’s eacalating very rapidly a couple hours ago they were all running around now this ones not even trying to get up it’s just chirping really loud

i’m still putting the feed in a plastic bowl i haven’t given them a specific feeder theyre still young i’ve never had this problem with meat birds and i have raised chicks a dozen times but this has only happened last year when they all died and this time i dont know none of them have died yet...

yes i’m using pine shavings i incubated them at home i have a small incubator

just regular pine shavings

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...

thank you that was very informative and helpful i actually bought the eggs from someone so i dont know much about the parents nutrition but the hip is fine and the twist happens at the knee of the bird i’m just waiting for a couple of them to dry well in the incubator so they’re all together...

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...