Recent content by GodofPecking

They'll need their own turn in the yard if you can arrange it, or a separate pen. chicks need too eat poo flavored things, yeah, I know, but it's to start up the bugs in their gut which digest food. They get those bugs from their flock.

Too many roosters and not much room or not much food would make the rooster kill chicks if he can or must. But if he is nice and there is plenty of food about then they should be just fine. After all, they are his kids. So as a rule, it's ok. If they start getting injuries you can't explain...

Sometimes it is best to help them on their way and put an end to suffering, when their suffering will continue. When there is hope, and life, you let them live, but when they have no chance, you help them go. It is not easy to do. Not for me, not for you, but for some people it is. People are...

I do not know, but if it was my own bird, I would generally suspect mareks disease, which causes paralysis and is made worse by vaccines. The vaccines give the birds the disease, does not protect them from getting it again and relapses, and is the first time 'in the wild' that scientists have...

Thankyou btw.

fridge door has no pipes or wires most of the time, especially on plain fridges. So chop away. They also have an appliance lead, which I connect to a powerpoint and all the internal electric stuff. works nicely. easy to get electronic thermostats with LED readouts, they are very cheap. Anything...

sheesh, I hope I did not put a hole into it's "left abdominal airsac" that's about the size of the inflation, although the inflation was way big. Also alarming to read they are like plastic, there was that bubble that came out a little. Oh well, I hope it'll be alright.

far out, thats cool. I knew they had two brains and all that, nice to learn more. will look. naa, not into the antibiotics, can't get them for chickens or for me. Would like to get some colloidial silver though, that would be the nuclear option, if I could get it, for me though, I think...

a fridge is a good incubator. first off on size it will godzilla stomp all over anything you can afford to buy. second it's well insulated. already. third it's boxy like an incubator with room inside. fourth it has a very doory door. a door is a great idea. plus, it's included free. you...

Thanks, seems legit. :-) I shall let the little blighter go on without further care and see how it does. Things usually heal up by themselves, but ointments, especially commercial ones, always seem to do harm and slow the healing process at the very least. Also I would say it was probably more...

I suspect malnourishment. Bags of pellets are in no way anything resembling a complete diet any more than stale bread and water for a prisoner is appetizing. Chooks require a broad range of foods and mechanical items and pathogens to live properly. They need all human food scraps from your...

Here is a really strange one, and I feel for the poor little thing, though it doesn't seem in pain, not much, but then chickens do not show pain. I could not help but notice one day that the poor thing had inflated on one side, the skin separating from the muscle beneath across a vast area of...

I'm calling it. He talks DOLLARS and big ones that rhyme with 'tip off' 8-) Anyhow, one leg is no big deal if the littlun lives. An internet search first page reveals: One Legged Chicken Buffalo Sauce - Lane's BBQ https://lanesbbq.com/products/oneleggedchicken-buffalo-sauce One-legged...

'prognosis' I wonder what that word actually means. I should look it up in the dictionary. stil, a vet can't say 'financial report' or 'how much you have to pay me to care as much as you'. Fine honest substitutes, but no good for business. It's not about actual costs thats for sure. Anyhow, I...

One more of the chicks passed away. When I went to get them, one was missing. Apparently being blind it had gotten lost and entered a cage and being blind couldn't find it's way back to the mother's calls. It died of exposure. I thought it may have been the one who went missing a day or two ago...