Okay, as of last night I have one ear completely clear (YAY!) and still working on the second ear.
Well, now this morning when I let the chickens out….. I saw another young girl acting off, like Poppy did in the beginning 🤦🏼♀️ when I do my inspection when I get home, and she looks perfectly...
Tonight, I got the main plug out of both sides. But most of the side inside wouldn’t come out by pressing on the side. I was able to get quite a bit out by using a blunted toothpick. But there’s still some deep inside… I sprayed her ear with vetericyn spray and I’m hoping it’ll work itself to...
okay, something I just noticed tonight. It actually looks like her ears might be swollen? She is an Easter egger but doesn’t have the beard and muff. And definitely look swollen to me?
Ironically, yesterday I saw her dustbathe for the first time since last Thursday, and she was back in the...
I offered her an egg yolk this morning, I sprinkled a few grubs on top to entice her, she acts slightly interested, but doesn’t actually go for it.
I broke the yolk and physically dipped her beak, which she licked off.. then wiped her beak off and still uninterested. Very perplexed by this...
The scratch and peck feed, fermented - a few spoonfuls per bowl. There’s always left over. Dry feed - a big scooper cup spread between 3 bowls.
Scratch and peck is the brand name of feed.
I offer regular “scratch” in the morning spread on the ground in the run, a few handfuls between 14...
Oh, and they get femented scratch and peck adult food. But for the last 5 days, I’ve been giving them plain dry food. In case she did have a crop issue I couldn’t detect and didn’t want extra fermentation going on in her body.
Hi y’all - sorry for the super lame title, but I am at a loss..
One day my 19wk old pullet was running about like a teenager, the next she was a little bit slower. I kept an eye on her, she drank water, attempted to peck at some food and scratch on the ground. The next day she was visibly, much...
Wow okay, so these chicks are hurting my brain. And I’m hoping by posting these chicks it’ll further help others who are also scouring the internet for photos that look like their chicks.
I had two classic EE’s, chipmunk colouring, peacombs - easy peasy! Flash forward to Jan 31 and I see these...
I’ve had chickens 8 years now - but I’m stumped. I’ve never had baby chicks this early in the year with all the crappy weather and it’s a big fat drag. I haven’t been able to bring the girls out for longer than an hour like 2x’s a week because of the rain, wind and just plain cold weather.
Well...
Sorry I missed the notification, but we have settled into a routine. I’ll come in and open his coop door first, but Wyatt will still wait to get pushed out by Jareth. When he does, I try to have the run door wide open for him to run through. And then he’ll be a free ranging boy all day, and wait...
Their run is an old horse paddock, it’s gotta be 20x20ft or more. I have 12 in the flock, including the two boys. They aren’t free range, unless I’m home, with the exception of the two girls who regularly fly out of the run for the day haha
Okay, you’re right - I’m going to give it a little...
They’ve been together as long as the polish has been a chick, he’ll be a year old in June. And this has only started last week.. I just feel so bad for my old boy because his heart problem, he can’t run for more than one burst before his comb is purple and drooping. I’m hopeful they’ll work it...
Hello! Looking for some advice here… I have one rooster who’s 7, he’s been the main rooster with no problems when cockerels have hatched and grown up until they got rehomed. Then enters this little bantam polish, who are supposed to be rather chill birds. Once I knew he was a boy, I didn’t...
No, unfortunately I have no clue whose dog it was. There was some vineyard workers across the street from us both days the dog was present , so I’m thinking it could’ve been theirs??
We have three dogs that are around the chickens all the time, which I think had their guard down.. poor girls.
Hi! Thanks so much for reaching out :frow
My little flock is doing okay.. we experienced our first dog attack, lost two girls, but managed to save the third girl who got attacked, thank God. And now I’m trying to manage my old man rooster (only 7, but acting old) who is being chased and...
Her breast bone felt really pronounced today, so I would say she may have lost a little weight. But there is no puss and the wounds don’t smell bad at all. There’s really good to know that my regimen for her works without antibiotics, thank you for saying that!
I offered boiled egg, scrambled...