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18 Happy healthy busy baby chickens

Okay so I've always, since about 2 years in done medicated chick food. But I'm doing some reading on here and I'm understanding how useless that is before they are exposed to the environment it helps with. And it makes sense considering what I already know. So now I'm trying this. I'm starting...

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Okay so I had chicks hatch yesterday. One still had an empty yolk sack attached and brownish fluid in the egg. It's definitely not as peppy as the others. I've read this could be an infection? What would the dosage of amoxicillin be for a newborn baby chick?

I have a 5 something year old OE hen from tractor supply who's really slowing down. She has not laid an egg yet this year. The past few weeks she's been more clingy and hanging around the house and not keeping up with the ranging of the others. But otherwise eating and acting normal. The past...

Ok so on the NR360 I hate the flat bottom. Bowling was AWFUL on first hatch, pretty sure I lost a few due to this who were trying to get out but got exhausted from the best down. Used shelf liner after that and it helped some but not as much as hoped. What do y'all think about this tray WITH...

Well this is cool. If dogs can smell cancer or insulin fluctuations, can they be taught to sex eggs? https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/sexing-chicken-eggs-scent

175 lbs of don't mess with my chickens. He's trained to a parameter though. And the chickens are wondering further and further. Lost our first one ever to a predator... hawk. I wish they would stay in the yard and quit wondering down the driveway and into the woods.

I'm having a really hard time finding anything on this. Obviously this can be transmitted through a hen to her egg. But I can't find anything on these eggs hatching. If I were to buy eggs and have them shipped (considering) obviously there would be no way to test the eggs. Considering chicks...

I mean of course it's obvious when a chicken is sick. But you hear about these diseases they could carry and that are so contagious and can be carried by wild birds and so on and so on. So what if all your chickens appear perfectly healthy but have something? Seems like having a whole flock...

I guess it's like playing music for babies in the womb. Looks like it really increased hatch rate! Does anybody do this? I think I'm going to try it this time...

So we had our first hawk attack. One of my favorite girls. I free range them for half of the day and they have started wandering further on the property. Our Pyrenees keeps the yard pretty safe but they are wondering beyond that some now. I started my incubator Wednesday night. Well because she...

I have a lot of questions lol, I like to learn. Another thing I was thinking about was this warm up everybody does with their incubator. So you let it sit there warm up get your humidity and temperature just perfect then you open it up mess all that up put dry room temperature eggs in there and...

I live in SC and right now temps are cold at night and warm during the day. We don't use HVAC much this time of year. But the humidity here is higher. So our house fluctuates a lot. If I start my NR360 with water in the center the humidity will stay at about 57. If I do dry it fluctuates a lot...

Here we go!

So my little 9mo. old hen Caroline (actually my little chick I had to do surgery on in a previous post) has an injured leg. Pretty positive it's an injury, but not sure how she got it. I had them out free ranging and had just been talking to her and saw her moving around just fine when I was...

Okay, so I have an original flock of 7 girls in which the youngest are several years old. They recently lost their rooster. I also have a flock of 9 that's 24+ weeks old and one flock of 11 around 15 weeks old. The younger flocks each have a rooster. I have a bachelor pad on the upper deck of...

I'm so disappointed. My rooster Abraham is not quite 2 years old and has become a jerk. Never had a problem with him before. When he was a year old we were able to pick him up and hold him. Well this spring we started hatching our own to build our flock as we only had eight hens before. Those...

Yesterday I moved my chicks from the brooder on my screen porch to an outdoor run. As they were getting two crammed in there. It was getting quite dirty quite fast. I noticed one with the wings a little dropped and looking a little lethargic so I went ahead and took it inside. Last night the...

So I found this in one of my nest boxes. I'm not sure who laid it. But what is this!? Obviously I'm concerned.