Recent content by Draconic

She's an Aloha, they are a very beautiful breed! They're our attempt at recreating an American version of Swedish Flower hens, bred right here in Arizona ^^ I got my eggs off of someone who's part of their breeding project, I have five of them, hatched seven and sent two to a friend of mine...

Just wanted to update, I got her four babies the evening of discussion, and she's been SO much happier, she tries to roll them under her like a mother to keep them warm, and she's been trilling and eating a lot more since giving them to her. She absolutely adores them, and I'm happy to see her...

I may just go for some new chicks, if you think it wouldn't be much of a problem. Being only six weeks old she herself is still very much a chick, I planned to get more chicks anyway, just not under these circumstances. If she ends up being mean, I can just put a large divider in there to keep...

I can try to, but I don't think that's an extremely viable option, unfortunately.

She didn't have shock, she's doing much better today, I've been keeping her injury clean and moist, but, I can't get her to eat or drink much. She's upset about being alone... is there anything I can really do in this situation to help her with this? I don't want to put her back outside, and...

Yeah, I figured the peroxide might cause the wound to dry out, which, probably isn't a good thing considering it may be down the the tissue... my immediate mindset was just to clean it out to prevent infection. Had I not been panicking that hard, I would've realized sooner that peroxide probably...

I woke up this morning to see that one of my Aloha chicks had managed to get out of their safety pen outside, and, the big nasty chicken my mom insists on keeping had been pecking at her. I didn't realize until I got out there to put her back in with the others just how badly she was injured by...

Yes I... it has occurred to me that I have never actually seen a chicks butt before, unfluffy at least... Why does it stick out like that though? That seems a bit inconvient to just have it hanging out like that I checked a different chick and theirs is also out so... I do feel stupid for...

What is it then?

Their vent is hanging out though, it looks like the Alaskan bull worm from SpongeBob 😂 It's probably hard to see because I applied vaseline a few hours prior, but all three of them have their vents out, you can really see it in that first picture, the other two aren't as prominent, due to the...

Their vents are still hanging out today, I read somewhere that I could give them ibprophine for inflammation and swelling, so I cut some tiny, tiny pieces out of a small dosage and fed it to the three, their vents aren't dark pink anymore, but, they are still out... is this something that will...

Sure, sorry I was a bit busy before now, but I got the three of them Yes though, my little boy I was holding earlier pooped all over me, it didn't seem like he had any trouble or pain doing so, and they've been eating and drinking just fine today, even after this started. They've been on the...

I was trying to clean my week old chicks this morning, because my mom forgot to turn off the overhead fan when she went to bed last night and three of the chicks I have had some pretty nasty pasty butt when I got up, so I ran some warm water over their bums, wet down a paper towel with warm...

I didn't know that, but that's good!

My older chicks are starting to develope enough to where I can probably get some accurate readings on them, so I wanted to ask for help with sexing them. I'm pretty sure I have three cockerels, but, I wanted opinions, as I'm not familiar with any of these breeds or their growth stages They're...