Recent content by Lelilamom

Instead of building on, can you build up? Chickens will roost at the highest level so perhaps raise the coop up 2 ft and add a level underneath with ramps going from one level to the next. Maybe sand in the middle level? Something like this?

Maybe something like this, that you put up against your existing coop so the hens can see eachother without bullying because they're separated by the screening.

I've splinted chicken, duck and turkey legs using the same method as @CoriM with great success. Depending on the size of the bird, you can use popsicle sticks in between the legs - that gives stability and helps displace weight. The only issue splinting with ducks is that you have to change the...

I had a therapy chicken that was a buff (yes you read that correctly, a therapy chicken) and she was at the bottom of the pecking order. She was always missing feathers from being bullied. We eventually made her a separate but adjacent enclosure next to the rest of the hens. The last year...

Good job bandaging her up! I recommend keeping the bandages on her so you don't end up with a fly strike.

That coyote would be a rug if that were my chicken.

what about triple antibiotic or is that too close to the nose?

That's what I'm wondering. I don't use blukote on the face, so I wonder if anyone knows of an antibiotic that can be used on the beak like that. Yes Duct tape. As long as you can get something on the wound, put a small bit of gauze and then a square of duct tape, just big enough to cover...

I wonder if you could put blukote on it or another antibiotic and cover it. Duct tape works great.

2 weeks

Our birds become pets and it's never easy to see a pet near the end of their lifespan. While many breeds live to be 7+ years or more, some breeds average around 3-5. That may be where you are at.

She will be fine. I had a sparrow hawk injure the eye of one of our wyandottes about 7 years ago and she's still walking around our coop today. Our Bantam rooster, Sgt. Pepper, lost his eye in a fight three years ago and it didn't phase him. However, he didn't see a red tail coming and he was...

Did the chicks go back under the mama hen? @Rooka_2 . I'm curious how she's handling the separation.

@Rooka_2 How are your birds this morning? How are the chicks?

My 7 day update. I've been checking the birds every day. Day 1 still had mites on birds Day 2, fewer mites and some birds had none. Day 3 only a few birds had mites Day 4 only 3 birds plus roosters had one or two mites Day 5 only two birds had mites Day 6 one bird had dead mites Day 7 no birds...