Recent content by yellowflower

I also agree, that rats in peticular attrack other predators. I've had chickens for 10 yrs and used welded wire and chicken wire for there run which was always covered. I have a camper as their coop. I had a lot of dogs when I first got them. Shepherds... some penned and some loose. And I had an...

Where can you find these colors? I can't even find any breeders. Would love some eggs to hatch. :)

Thank you for the advice and the links Blooie! Much appreciated :)

Thanks, I might buy both sizes and see what works. Is there a link to the right one? I see an express heat in large. Is that the right one? It looks like it has a fuzzy cover and I worry about them pecking at it.

Hello! I've been reading through this LONG thread lol and I just love this idea. I used to hatch silkies but haven't for several yrs. I didn't think it was normal for them under the heat lamp so I started letting the broodies do the job. I just can't hatch as many. I'm planning on new chicks...

Self Blue Ameracauna trio. 2 hens and 1 roo. 2 yrs old. They carry the wheaten coloring also. They are bantams so I would prefer someone with only bantams or docile standard chickens. Pick up only. I live in Bradford NH. Email would be preferred for contact. [email protected]. Thanks!

My hen is still alive and has recuperated very well. Every day she looks and acts better and she is just about 100% My daughter came over the other day and she pointed out that the other hen has a poopy butt, could be diareah so maybe it is cocidia. I never thought of that but I will be treating...

I'll try that medic lynny, my chickens do not like it and never eat it when I buy it. So that sounds like a way to get it into them. I will try it with her. Right now she is getting human calcium a couple times a day on what ever treat I have. Just a little so she doesn't eat too much , been...

Thank you Eggcessive. She's still here. Eating and drinking good, just still doing the wattle walk and wings down. The breathing is off and on. I don't feel comfortable doing the draining and it it's not a cure I'd rather let her go. But she seems pretty good. Thinking back I don't think her...

She's still alive and I saw her poop this morning. She is still feisty and ate some bread with calcium on it. All I have is the human supplement. Still wallking penguin style and her breathing is labored sometimes. So I don't know if I should hope or not. But she is pooping so that has to be...

I don't know if she's egg bound. I don't feel any egg. She's not pooping and got her wings hanging and doing the pengiun walk. She's eating not sure on the drinking. At this point I don't know what else I can do. If she has what the other one has she will be gone in 24 hrs. Maybe sooner. Thank...

Anyone? I put honey on her felt again for an egg don't feel anything. But her underside feels firm and looks swollen. Very tiny bit of poop again, but nothing to get excited about that's for sure. Why would a bird not poop? Feeling very sad and helpless at this point. Is there anything else I...

I have or had 3 bantam ameracaunas with a roo, two of the hens were not laying good for a while but they were molting so I didn't think to much of it. Then the last couple of days one of them I noticed was walking the penguin walk and open mouthed breathing. So I gave her a warm soak and checked...

Thanks! I've never had this experience before. I've rehomed silkie roos because of having too many and never had this happen. He's looking for a new home and I might have one today. He's a very nice guy never attacks, laid back and follows me around. He was penned away from the girls over night...

This is my story. I had a silkie roo with mostly silkies and hatched a bantam brahma roo and hen and decided to keep them. So I rehomed the silkie roo because he was constantly chasing the brahma roo and now after 1 day of being gone me brahma roo is being rather aggressive with the ladies. One...