Place the brooder on higher table / cabinet, as high as your eye level if you could, and pick a brooder that open from the front not from the top, So you could approach and interact with them from the front everytime, and they will be calm and friendly!
Chicks at all age, even the tamest one...
Hmm if drink is not the case then maybe there’s something with the feed or it is sign of illness. I read that chicken feed with too high protein than needed makes loose stool. Maybe you can check how much % protein in their feed? And % protein of their previous feed?
She is a 5-months-old White Brahma :hugs thank you @chickens105 it is so comforting knowing that I'm not alone. How is your Sweetie now?? And how old was she when she had MG? And for how long did you treat her until everything is cleared up?
Thank you @Eggcessive :hugs this information is very...
Also, I only turn 2-3 times a day, sometimes only once per day during the weekends, because I turn them manually.
It is better to turn more frequently, but if you don’t have the time to do that don’t lose hope 😆 it still works with once per day.
I start turning on day 3 and stop turning on day 18. It is the usual way in my country to left the eggs in the incubator the first 3 days untouched 😆 I just hatched my first batch two weeks ago, and they are perfectly healthy!
❤️ Good luck with your hatch!
Thank you for your response! I looked it up a little bit on Google, is it bacterial infection?
Is the membrane covering her eye will be permanent…? Will it cause blindness? I feel so bad not treating her the first time I saw some signs 😢 is it treatable?
Dear BYC, please help me to figure this out… My favorit White Brahma hen, Vanessa Paradis, has this two layer of pink membranes on her right eye, it doesn’t move. It’s not the third eyelid, her third eyelid still function normally… It makes her left eye sunken a little bit than the right eye. I...
Hi @ltcffl03 :) good luck with your hatch, it's so exciting!
I'm also new to this vaccination things. There are so many different vaccination program in my country, depends on their breed, layers or broilers. But all are specified for large poultry farm, so the vaccine doses that widely...
Thank you for your response @Stipenvlerk :hugs today they are 10 days old. These symptoms developed early after second vaccination until now. But today they got a little bit better, less sneezing and no more head shaking. They are inside my bedroom since birth, far away from the coop and outdoor...
Hello all, brand new chicken Mama here.
I just hatched 2 Rhode Island White chicks 6 days ago. On the first day, I vaccinated them with New Castle (ND) Hitchner B1, in the form of eye drops, everything went well.
On the fourth day, I vaccinated them again using ND La Sota (eye drops) and since...
Hello! New member here :) my name is Gemala, I'm from Indonesia the origin country of Ayam Cemani!
I'm a new chicken keeper, my first chickens are Brahma. I got them mid September 2023, so it has been 2 months of wonderful experience for me.
Now I own 6 Brahmas, and 2 Rhode Island White chicks...