I put a towel in the brooder and they investigated it but didn't snuggle it. This morning when I got up it was quiet. I checked on them and heard little happy chirps. Finally lol. I guess it was just missing everyone. I've never had a chick chirp that much for so long before.
I'm not sure if...
The brooder is 90 on on side and cooler on the other.
Vent is clean, no pasty butt. I think the crop is emptying, but it's hard to tell.
I'll try the cloth/stuffed animal thing. I'm hoping that it is that it's missing the others and will adjust.
Two days ago I bought two polish chicks. One chick has hardly stopped distress chirping since. The temperature is around 90°F. I put their food in the blender in case the crumbles were too big and saw it eat and have a full crop. I saw it take a drink too. It also scratches and pecks around but...
On April 14th I bought three bantam chicks, 2 OEG and 1 Porcelain D'uccle. A few days later, the OEG chicks grew their wing feathers, but the D'uccle didn't. April 18th, it wasn't eating or drinking as much as the others and then it passed away during the night.
A few weeks later on April...
The gold and black ones look like Golden Sebrights. Does the orange/black one have feathered feet? It looks like a Mille Fleur Bantam (if it has feathered feet, then it might be a D'uccle). The white one looks like a male, and Silkies are harder to tell, but the rest look like girls.
The brown stripe one look like old English game. The orange and grey with feather feet look like Mille Fleur D'Uccle, and the black and tan looks like a Golden Sebright.
Raccoons killed almost all of my ducks last year by first coming in through the roof of the run and then the next night tearing a hole in the side of the duck house.
I had the roof of the run secured with hardware cloth, but use zip ties to hold the joining pieces together. After a few years...
They are about 5 and half weeks old. I am 99% sure that #1 Madi and #3 Kowalski are hens and that # 2 Zippy is a drake. The others have me confused. What do you think?
#1 Madi
#2 Zippy
#3 Kowalski
#4 Dublin
#5 Double Trouble
#6 Dipper
Hi Kerri!
Bae is doing great! He is a full time house chicken. He lives in cage in a spare bedroom and has a window he can look out and see the other chickens, and of course he can hear my other roos. He loves all the extra treats he gets (but not too many as I don't want him to get fat). He...
My duck eggs hatched yesterday. They are mixed breed(s) (I know what their parents are) and I am curious as to which breed(s) they look like. #5 had a very hard hatch and is a little weaker than the rest but it is keeping up with them and slowly getting stronger.
My Duck is sitting on her eggs, and today I was able to candle four of them (there's a lot more but she and the drake were getting upset). One of the eggs had veins and movement. I want to mark which one(s) are developing but I know that pencil will wear off. What can I safely use to mark them?
I keep my duck in a dog pen fence covered in hardware cloth with a shed type building that I leave the duck entrance open so they can go in and out of it whenever they want.
About 2 am Friday morning I heard my ducks quaking louder than normal and went out to see what was going on. I could only...