HELP! This is my first time incubating eggs, well long story short I tried to have a humidity thermometer in there with them and the egg turner knocked it over it jammed up and the lid popped off sometime in the night, the eggs still felt warmer than room temperature and this was within the...
He is also in little too no pain with it, he was grazing and walking fine, He bedded down with the sun and seems ok. I think I’m more upset about it than he is.
I am new to banding and we banded our two 10.5 week old bucklings last week, made sure both where in there, and not to high, below the Little boy nipples, cleaned and sanitized the area, bands and tools.
everything was fine 2 hours ago, they where rearing and head butting, running and jumping...
He is both and that is definitely my fear!
I have been doing that for 3 weeks now, I’m on the verge of letting them out together, my main concern is that he will roughly mount my 10 week pullets and hurt them. He Chases the hens grabs them by the head feathers/comb and holds them down till he...
My rooster is not very gentle with his ladies and I plan on culling him after the 10 week newbies are old enough to do them all at once, my question is do I need to worry about him hurting the new girls that are only 10 weeks when I integrate them into my flock? Should I cull him first since...
Should all chicks be dosed as preventative measure? I Quarantined the sick one as soon as I recognize that it wasn’t acting right. Just wondering if y’all can advise me on this. Ty
So I just got 3 of these beautiful birds, they are about 2 weeks old and 2 are darker then the other, was wondering if that might be an indication of what gender they may be? Do you possibly know if this is a tell for them?
I used it (striker w/o antibiotics ) when my girls started doing the gagging thing, I did my research and this is what I was most comfortable doing for us, after a week of sprinkling it on their feed at night no one in the yard was gagging any longer, also don’t have poop on my eggs anymore.
I...
Is Parasites the only reason for an adult to get diarrhea/poop in their fuzzy butts? I am dealing with this at the moment and trying to find answers, I have started a de-wormer for the whole flock (striker2) but is it possible that it could be more then that? I stared worming them about 6 days...
I have 10 birds that free range all day, they get a scoop of pellets in the morning when they are let out, kitchen scraps and such along with whatever they find in the yard during the day, then about 6 cups of pellets in a feeding pan on the floor when it’s time to coop back up at night. A few...