So she's made it to 4 weeks old. Her issue right now is she keeps getting chick mash in her eye. I have to take a wet Q-tip and wipe out her eye after every meal. I've started putting Terramycin in her eye, I'm on day 4 or 5 of that. I Q-tip it, and then apply Terramycin 3 times a day. Is there...
Hi! Did it end up being a male or female? I have 4, one had the same comb and wattles at 8 weeks old. It had some patterning on the chest like yours. I have 2 that have no comb or wattles, but 1 has a black chest. Then there's one with a comb and wattles half the size of the other.
The first 2...
Hi! Thank you!
Yes! Definitely!
I've dealt with mites many times (since I always have silkies). I already did all bedding/ nesting boxes this morning, first thing. I did a good dusting on the girls (and boys). I had already done ivermectin, so waiting for day 10 to do it again. I gave them a...
Everything worked out perfectly with the integration. Everyone was so young and still accepting.
I just did another similar thing. I had a new batch of littles (21, 2-3 week olds), and I added 5 new littles I got (almost 2 weeks old). I had my littles outside in their day cage (from Tractor...
Great! Thank you!
So, I'd been looking so closely daily, and had not seen any bugs. But tonight when I looked, a bunch of the girls with issues (they are staying in nesting boxes, and not on perches) had a ton of face mites! They were especially congregated on the scaby spots. So I'm hoping/...