I have a silkie hen named Elsa who is about 2.5y old. About 2-3 months ago we found out she has 2 bones cysts growing. One on her leg and one on her wing. We had taken her in because of a limp that was progressing and the vet found the cysts when they did an x ray. The vet put her on metacam to...
So here is some background info. Elsa is a 2y old silkie. She had a slight limp in the fall, and we assumed that maybe she had landed on it wrong as she had no issues bearing weight on it or walking. Fast forward to spring, her limp has been slowly getting worst. She still hangs out with the...
So I have a silkie hen Elsa, that's about 1.5years old. I noticed last weekend that she has a slight limp. I checked the bottom of her feet and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. I thought maybe she jumped off of something and landed wrong. Well her limp is slightly worst although she...
I recently picked up a mottled ameraucana pullet a few days ago. She is about 12 weeks old. She is currently in a temporary pen for isolation before I integrate her into my small mixed flock. Today when I was checking on her I noticed her toe nail looked a bit strange. It's a bit croocked. Not...
Hi everyone,
So I am new to chickens this year. I have 3 hens about (16months) and 3 pullets about (40weeks old). While the older ons have done small molts, this seems to be the time of year that the 3 hens are doing a bigger molt. My Wyandotte and silkie have pretty much finished and my bantam...
Hi, I am a new memeber to this forum. I joined when we started building our coop. Thats all done and now we have our chickens!
We got 4 silkie straight runs back in april. We have given 2 away that were crowing at 10 weeks as we are in the city and only allowed pullets/hens. I know its still...