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i have a very small chick that came in a mystery box along with my order. she had terrible poopy butt that i cleaned. she was quite wet. i dried her off and wrapped her in a warm piece of flannel. when i checked her a few minutes later she could not stand well and kept her wings away from her body.

I ordered 8 Salmon Faverolle chicks from Valley Hatchery LLC. Two boxes arrived right on time (actually a few hours earlier than I thought). The first box contained the 8 SF chicks. Puzzeled, I opened the second bigger box to find 15 chicks on one side of the divided box. I thought I picked...

I have been incubating both chicken and goose eggs for about 3 years with this incubator. At least half of the 22 chicken eggs usually hatch if not more. Sainme with the goose eggs, about half of the eggs (either 6 or 8) hatch. I have never had none of the eggs hatch. I did notice that...

Several months ago I noticed one hen with raised white spots that look like calcium deposits. They do not rub off, at least not with minimal pressure. They do not seem to be growing or spreading; they do they do not seem to bother her or change her behavior. Her comb has always been a light...

Well, I did a brief serch and it does appear that geese lay eggs in other nests but their own. Can anyone confirm this has happened? My oldest goose started laying eggs; one broke early on which seems to be common with her. This is her third year and she has not hatched any eggs the last two...

A lot of joy left my life today, along with Curley. Fly like the wind Curley! 💔

Greetings, I have a small flock of about 21 Salmon Faverolles, two are Roosters. I am getting only about 5 eggs a week this winter (2nd year for the hens) so I have been watching their combs and noticed one hen had a very large comb about the same size as Tank the Rooster. I had not seen...

One of my females, who had successfully hatched three goslings last year in April, is lately acting famished. She runs to me before all the others and begs to be the first, second, third, fourth, etc. to be given treats. She will follow me to my garage where I keep theirs and the chickens...

Does anyone feed their geese and/or chicken watermelon that is not fully ripe?

I realize that there are articles on Green Tea, but specifically, has anyone used Matcha powder to feed as a supplement for the chicken feed? I purchased a bag at Costco, it has no added sugar, so I do not think it would be bad for them. I guess I am a hard core coffee drinker (with milk) so...

1.) Has anyone used Permetherin liquid for depluming mites? A member kindly mentioned that she thought my rooster may have depluming mites. I have been pricing pour on Ivermectin when I realized I had an unopened bottle on liquid permetherin. 2.) Most of what I have gleaned is that depluming...

I have a two year old Salmon Faverolles rooster that is my husbands favorite bird. "Tank" has lost most of his neck feathers and has lost many of his tail feathers. We have been paying close attention to him for the last month or so. I had a bug infestation that I think I may have under...

Tilly, an Embden goose, has been sitting on her eggs for about 5 weeks. I took them all out when she was off the nest and candled them briefly. There is a air pocket on the large end of the each egg, and a cohesive dark area above which takes up about 2/3 of the egg shell. That seemed a big...

I imagine this has been asked before, but... My husband noticed that our Salmon Faverolles rooster was scratching his neck vigorously this morning. He never really developed a full mane of neck feathers but he did look like he had less that usually. I picked him up to inspect him (my SF...

I have a Nurture Right 360 incubator that I use for my chicken eggs. This is my third attempt in two years to hatch goose eggs. The first attempt only one hatched out of 6; I did not assist it. The second attempt I had four beautiful little chicks. I do think that I had to assist one or more...

I have found a couple of eggs recently with odd coatings on them, at least odd to me. There seems to be globs of a whitish sticky stuff on the eggs. I can pull some of it off. I do not see anything odd on the back side of the hens.

This is the first time I have used the Farm Innovations 4250 incubator. My usual incubator is the Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 which I have had for a couple of years with little complaint. I set 42 Salmon Faverolles eggs in the 4250. When I first candled them I removed about 10 that I...

Recently I posted on the Emergency forum that one of my Salmon Faverolles chicks appeared to be gasping for air. I had expected her to die, but she now seems to be thriving after some quick TLC. She was smaller than her five hatch siblings, but how she is almost about half the size of the...

I noticed today that one of the 14 Salmon Faverolles chicks that I hatched last week seems to be gasping for air. It is clearly getting weaker and weighs .7ouce less than one of the other chicks. It does not have pasty butt, in fact it does not look like it has pooped at all. It is chirping...

My goose finally started laying eggs. Last year she said her first in January. She has three in the nest. When I went to check on her in yesterday her three eggs were covered in hay stuck on the egg yolk covering the eggs. After a bit of searching I found some egg yolk near the other eggs...