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i watched 50 videos on this so far and still cant tell. Everyone says look for this and that but they all look the same!
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I have a 5 week old chick that makes all the motions of a rooster crowing, but no actual sound comes out. Would pullets do this as well as cockerels, or is it a pretty good indicator that this chick is a Rooster?
I bought 6 baby chicks from TSC approx. 2 weeks ago, and I have been giving them the electrolytes. Can I add ACV to their electrolyte water? Or should I alternate? I have a rescued rooster, and we adopted some hens in October 2023. So, I am very new to having backyard chickens 🐔
Thank you for this video. I have large coop and a 9x12 run that had three hens in it. I have raised 4 chicks and over the past few weeks have put them in a pin next to the coop during the day for play time and they've done great. They're about 12 weeks old. The older hens barely paid them attention. Then I moved the pin inside the run and again they did great. Then I removed the pin and there was a little pecking here and there but overall it went pretty well. Day two now and the older hens are still randomly pecking at the younger ones. My barred rock in particular seems to be targeting the new barred rock chick now and then. I've put a few obstacles in the run that they can hide behind and run around to get away quickly. Last night they all went into the coop together to sleep. Babies on the ground, ladies on the bars. Once the door opened this morning the barred rock hen jumped down and pecked the babies a couple of times before exiting. There are some feathers in the run but all the chicks look fine. I just feel bad because they stay kind of huddled together in one side of the run and unless I'm in there they don't look like they're relaxing much. Once I go in and sit with them they all relax and preen themselves. So strange.
Great video. Not sure why it has such low views. I totally agree. We vaxxed some chickens we bought and have decided we are going to hatch our own from now own. I don’t think these vax are necessary for all chickens. I’ll take my chances and go organic for a while and see how that turns out. Thanks for a great video!
I'm terribly sad. I just found this video after much searching and we'll, I'm glad I did. I just had to dispatch a cockerel. 5 weeks old. I have one more to do tomorrow. They have been fighting and I had to separate them because one was bloody. I brought it home put him in a brooder and dressed his wounds. I don't have enough hens for 3 roosters so these 2 have to go. I've had this problem once before and I let them go until they were 6 months old and regret it. I should have put them down long before that but I just wasn't sure at first. I'm still new to this, only 3 years in and learning as I go along. Thanks for the video. Trying not to feel bad.
Great video! Finallyyyy someone who acknowledges the difference in breed! 😅 everyone talks about the feather sexing etc, but it doesn’t apply to many breeds! I completely agree with you on the males looking you in the eyes early on and just being overall more observant.
Hi I am new at this. I have my first not so good chocked hatched 3 days ago. Can't walk. Keeps one leg up all the time and the tires are curled. I have watch many videos and did the taping of the toes to keep them straight. I have its feet talked to a piece of cardboard and in a potion of a cereal box with a soft warm hand warmer up against its chest to hold it up straight. I've been feeding it en yolk, green tea, probiotics, electrolytes. I have also added poultry cell. It has egg yolk on it and I've tried using a wet q-tip but it's a fail. Also it's crop isn't emptying. It's not eating enough to fill it like that. It looks like it's gasping when I do try to feed it. I'm using a very tiny dropper and barely putting any on the side of it's beak. I feel so lost. My heart is breaking. Any suggestions except culling. I can't do that.
This is excellent. I had one chick that just wasn’t doing well. She overheated when it wasn’t that hot, so I raised the heat source and the other 5 chicks became too cold. The one chick was just unwell. She never got big, I babied her a bunch, giving her water, and checking on her every 15 minutes. She died anyways. Sometimes there is just nothing you can do.
What if my chicks just eat the dirt?! I put them in it and they eat it like it's a buffet of food! Not the grass, they're eating the actual dirt. 2 week olds. I feel like this wouldn't be healthy for them to just stand there and eat it, yeah? Not sure what to do.
I hatched a little one last year and I watched him every day is is a barnyard mix mom one breed dad another breed he started getting a red comb at 2 weeks and feathered slowly by 4 weeks old crowing he is now a daddy of 3 new chicks mom is a Easter Egger going to be fun trying to figure out who is going to be boy's and girls. Color is definitely not a option neather is wing sexing I need at least one to be a girl .
I have some Brahma bantams and I’m finding it really hard to sex them because they’re all so fluffy 😣 I’m sure I have 2 cockerels, they have been practice sparing, but another one I’m really not sure of, it looks like the mother but has blue/green wing tips, but it also has blue green slippers, is that any indication or is colour not something to go by? (They’re all mostly a light brown) They’re about 9 weeks old at the moment.
Seems like the vaxxed chickens are the ones who get sick the most. I’m not going to be vaccinating my chicks, no way. My son was never jabbed with anything, and he is faaaarr healthier than all the other kids since day one. He very rarely gets unwell it’s amazing! And he has been exposed to all sorts of yuck stuff at kindy and school and never got anything it proved to me that vaccines are a way to keep people and animals sick and paying more money to big pharma.
We only offer it to the chickens at the end of the day and its free choice if they want it. They have plain water during the day. Doing this clears up any loose droppings before they go to roost at night.
This is the best explanation for acv and chickens hands down. Especially using a Mothers organic brand is very important. No only do I feed it to my chickens but also Myself in a glass of water ! The benefits are amazing ! Cheers!
Hello I have had my first broody hen hatch in Late October she hatched10 chicks since it is getting cold at night we put Mommy and baby s in a broader with a ref heat lamp which she stayed with them night and day until week 3 she has left now and they are on there own with us taking care of them. My question is how long should You leave them in the brooder with heat lamp? Since it is cold now in November past Thanksgiving they ate a little over 3 weeks old and are starting to get features, when would it be safe to put them with the rest of our hens and two roostes? Thank you for any suggestions and I appreciate your videos they are really helpful for a new chicken mom like me, I really enjoy my chickens and have them for there eggs😊💓Thanks for any info.....
