Recent content by MyChickenShack

Thanks for all the info...I called my extension agency today after work and unable to get through and will try tomorrow. I also called the vet that I take our dogs and cats too, there is a vet in that office that sees poultry 3 days a week. The hen that has been in question the most was, as...

Thanks for assistance. So can birds vaccinated against Marek's get it? My birds were all vaccinated. I found I may be able to get assistance from my extension agency and will be calling the. Thanks

I had 27 hens (down to 26) that were a year old this past June, all mail order as chicks from hatchery and vaccinated. Maybe 2 months ago, I noticed 1 with a limp. She would walk with a sway and limp, more noticeable on the left, but then could take off in a second in a run without any issue...

Also, I want to add, that my dog goes all over the yard, including the area of the chicken coop...

One of my two dogs has been vomiting and acting lethargic. The vet diagnosed with hookworms and another "stomach worm" (as she called it) that usually comes from eating such things as poop. He is a cat poop eater, though I have never seen him consume any other sort of poop. She put him on 2...

Either a white rock or white Orbington , I get those 2 mixed up...and of my other 3 other hens that went broody this Summer, 2 of those were same breed and they made great mom's. What would you do with her...can I mark her some way for identification or should we get rid of her...I've never...

The chick died...:hiti just buried it...what I know for sure Is that nothing entered the brooder...hardware cloth all around..also,1 was already dead and the other missing...makes me think she ate one...mama hen was vaccinated when we got her last year...and mama hen wouldn't get off the nest to...

Yes, she is young...a year old in June...her first time hatching...she had no other unhatched eggs under her....I'm losing hope again...the chick has quit chirping and closed her eyes

Friday 2 chicks hatched, appeared healthy. Friday night the 3rd hatched... Saturday (today) evening...1 dead, 1 missing, the other listless...I have very little hope it will survive...I brought it in the house and trying to give it water..my gut is mama just didn't do a good job....at the onset...

I asked my husband because I'm not good at estimating distance:D...but he thought ours traveled about 800 feet...our property is not fenced in and we live in a hollow with a creek and woods on either side...between having constant access to water from the creek and the feed we dispense, I think...

If you cant find someone who has chickens to give them too, you might consider posting a sign in a feed store like rural king, tractor supply, southern states...not sure what suppliers are in your area. We have a trading paper that we post free ads in also that comes out once a week, maybe there...

Totally agree...I have my 4th broody of the year sitting right now, hatch date this Friday. With the exception of this last one that is in a different kind of cage that my husband made, all of my others, I transferred from the nesting boxes to a dog kennel. I actually had enough room for the...

We free range all day...I usually open the coop up around 7-8am. After they go in for the night, I lock them up. The underneath part of my coop is blocked in on the front and back ends, but the sides lift up like doors. That's where the ducks stay at night. When they go to bed, I shut the...

I, too, locked mine up for a couple days...they were all mail order chicks that grew up learning on their own without any older birds to model. Locked them up a couple days until late in evening when I thought they might be done laying and let them out just for a few hours. I also used golf...

Following!!!! Best of luck! What about Frick and Frack:)....but really, I voted for Hen and Peck!