I have a Q. about vaccinations for Newcastle, Mareks, etc in the 1st few days of the chicks life...MY CHICKS ARE SICKER THAN THEY WOULDA BEEN W/OUT THE VACCINES I THINK....
*My friend sold me some chicks that were vaccinated by themselves....is there a possibility that it was done wrong? B/c...
My roo (2.5 yrs) has been listless, droopy body/comb, hardly moving, hasn't crowed for the 2 wks almost...
It all started when I noticed him up on the roost 1 day & I don't think he came down at all b/c underneath him was ALOT of poop, like neon green (which I know can mean they're...
I got 11 eggs from ebay I won 10+ Salmon Faverolles eggs & they're on Day 4.5 now...6 are good, but there's 4 (LIKE THESE IN PICS) that're internally cracked b/c they were shipped in an egg carton kinda loose in pretty loose folded newspaper. I had candled them before incubation & I knew they...
One of my friends has a Nankin hen, but no rooster, I know they are a very rare breed & I was in need of a rooster but I'd rather just buy the eggs from someone if I could
I have researched "Eye worm" in chickens & read alot about it, this supposedly appeared in 1/2 a day's time... As all of you know all this weird weather is making all of our chickens sick with at least small colds...Well, I have 15 3 months olds that were hatched together, few bantams in the...
I'm going to apologize ahead of time for so many pics & so many questions, if your confused I'll definately try to clear things up LOL, there's just so many!! Thanks yall....
BREED QUESTION: Here is my Cross Silkie, her momma was a true silkie, daddy coulda been an OE or Faverolle...
Here is my Whitey, my white leghorn egg the other day, she's laid multiple eggs like this in the past almost 2yrs but this time I finally weighed it, a whopping 3.5oz!! My other 2 RIR eggs only weighed the usual 2.2oz & 2.3oz.
I was thinking today, what IF you were to raise your chickens up with a hawk somehow & they actually got along? Could that even happen I wonder? I mean, b/c then...you'd have a great protector; you could just call in the fighter jet and here she/he comes!!! lol....
Seriously, I wonder if...
I'm hopefully gettin bout 20-24 Black Australorp fertile eggs from a family we know that has 6 australorp hens & 1 rooster. I only want to keep 2-4 of the hens as pets; & will be selling the rest I HOPE!...I read that entire thread on Humidity LOL, 31 pages wow....All of you in that thread were...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/220459/how-many-chickens-do-we-all-have-60-083-and-counting/3240#post_9442020......
tell us how many chickens you have & add that # to the number in the person's post above yours
Thanks :)
These 16 eggs I think are mainly coming from 2 chickens, possibly 3, whitey obviously lays all the white 1's, she's had some funky ones.....
Whitey's big egg vs. her normal egg size
Whitey's other BIG dbl yolker....
Any lastly whitey's BULLET EGG!!!
FEET TROUBLES:
Blackie my Dominique has been limping more & more on her left foot (shown here) for a few wks now. I'm assuming its bumblefoot b/c I've already done 4 bumblefoot surgeries on my 2 white leghorns (1 of which is no longer w/us b/c of a fox), but Whitey is the one we do have &...
Just for you here's pictures of ours B4 the 1 white & dominqiue got taken...back when we had 8 big ones, actually I think we're missing 1 dominqiue in this pic still but yea, there's our 7, they're obviousl hot lol
These...then there's is them sleepin with my favorite 2 up front blue foot &...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Me, my brother & parents first raised a baby chick from an incubator a LONG time ago when I was a teenager, it was the only 1 that hatched out of 25 eggs, it was pure black, I was in love w/it, it was so tame it'd follow me around...