I will come back to add more, edit and post photos soon, but wanted to share a duck bill repair tactic we devised that seems to be working, just in case anyone else has a similar emergency and is looking for ideas straight away.
As always, this worked for us, but might not work for you, or I...
My leghorn is slowly driving me round the bend. She is broody and I cannot seem to break it. She has now pulled all the feathers out under her. We don't own a cockerell and there are no eggs under her. She is moved out of the nesting box and locked away from it regularly. She has been given...
I recently adopted a chick that had trouble standing on its right leg, and formed a nodule on its ankle from walking on the wire mesh inside the brooder. She can't move her ankle straight, and usually hangs at a 90 degree angle, but can be bent upward a little. She has difficulty walking...
Hi! I have three brahma hens named Ginger, Cherry and Potato. First they all take drastically long breaks between their egg laying. Once they took a nine month long break! But Potato had started sounding weird yesterday. Her voice sounded hoarse, high and quiet. Her breathing got louder and I...
To familiarize myself with a normal chicken's rear end is like I occasionally probe the rears of my chickens when I hold them, and today both of the 5 month old Waffle's pubis bones have a sudden, sharp bend to them that I've never felt before and his brother from the same hatch doesn't have...