The chicks are 70 days old, and we have two silkie hens, one astrolorp hen and an astrolorp rooster. We are planning to try to introduce them again slowly with the way you mentioned after they have fully healed from their injuries. Of course I'll be monitoring them during this time just to make...
They're still inside because when we tried to introduce to the birds outside the rooster attacked them. So we have them inside to recover from their injuries.
I have chicks that are 70 days old and I've noticed that they've been sneezing an abnormal amount lately. They're still healing from past injuries so I'm wondering if I should be worried that they're sick with something. There's nothing that I have noticed that would have made them sick as we've...
So a week ago, we tried to introduce 3 chicks into our flock. 2 if them ended up getting injured and one of them has a blue spot on their back so I'm wondering if I should be conserved. We have been treating their wounds every night and they are looking a lot better but I can't help but be a...
My 9 day old chick passed away today and yesterday I found her lying down and cold in there cage. She wasn't really eating and drinking yesterday. So I warmed her up with a heating pad and put her back in with the other chicks because I didn't see anything wrong with her. Today I found her dead...
We have a rooster he's almost a year old. My mom looked at the eldest chick and it was pretty big. She found this out by candling them with a flashlight.
Thanks so much for responding. We've got two broody hens sitting on the eggs. The third hen isn't interested on sitting on her own eggs lol. I'm glad that they still have a chance to hatch.
The oldest would have been sat on by the hens a maximum of 9 days. The eggs range from 1-9 days old. I was washing them because me and my family rinse our eggs with cold water to get off anything on the outside. Then we date them and put them in the fridge. This was the first time we've ever had...
I accidentally washed fertilized chicken eggs under cold water and I'm worried I could have killed them. Is it possible for them to still hatch even though I ran them under cold water? We started warming them back up again pretty quickly and got them back under the hens but I'm concerned that I...
I accidentally washed fertilized chicken eggs under cold water and I'm worried I could have killed them. Is it possible for them to still hatch even though I ran them under cold water? We started warming them back up again pretty quickly and got them back under the hens but I'm concerned that I...
I haven't seen the other chickens picking out any feathers or grooming him. I have noticed that there are some of his tail feathers and more of his feathers in general in the coop and run. He is about a year old.
I haven't seen the other chickens picking out any feathers or grooming him. I have noticed that there are some of his tail feathers and more of his feathers in general in the coop and run. He is about a year old.
So my Roster has been losing his chest feathers and I don't know why. It's my first time keeping a roster he is an Australia astrolorp. I have two pictures the one of him outside was taken on March 22 and the other was taken on April 7. Is this normal? He's the only roster and I haven't see the...