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For some background info, I got laying hens from a local farm. They had chickens ranging from several months to 3 years old and I am unsure of the ages for my chickens. I've had them for about a month, and one of the chickens had some issues (leg mites and vent gleet, all treated and now cleared...

I just got 4 laying hens from a family member today. A few of them are a little on the older side. I am wondering if there are any treatments I should do just as a precautionary measure such as deworming, adding in a mite treatment to their dust bath, giving them additional vitamins and...

I had one chick hatch yesterday and everything thing seemed normal. It was wobbly on it's feet just like any other chick. However, this morning I noticed it was acting kind of strange. It shakes it's head and has a slight tremor in it's wings and can't stay on it's feet. It kind of flails...

Hi! My first snowflake bobwhite quail chick started hatching about 4 days ago. After three days and no progress, I began to slowly help the chick out, helping it to unzip out of the egg. After a few hours it had kicked the cap off but hasn't come out of the other half of the shell yet. It's...

I'm new to this forum and quail raising and have been incubating Snowflake bobwhite quail eggs with no success so far. I had several that weren't fertilized and others that died early on. The few that made it to lockdown pipped at the side of the egg and after 4 days ( just to be absolutely sure...