Posts by farm-a-zootical

Just trying to help.  Maybe if you did a search for 'antibiotic shot' on this site you'd find something that would work faster?  I wish I could help.  I know for people ears you use a vinegar/vegetable oil mixture to...

Well, my chickens can't go out to play away from their secure run because a fox got one of my little friends with me not very far away.  I am their protector first.  I feel bad, but they are in lock-down.  It may not be...

I'm not very experienced, but some poly vi sol, without iron, from the baby's vitamin section at Walmart, will give them some strength, along with yogurt.  You can spray the injured area with blu-kote from TSC or other local...

I agree with the bird netting.  We've caught many with it.  You can let them go or dispatch of them quickly as to avoid suffering.

Get a piece of that bird netting at Lowes, Home Depot, etc., & roll it loosely around the perimeter & catch those snakes before they enter.  They can not release themselves from the netting.  We've already...

I went through the same worries, but if she's low on the totem pole, and there is only one doing the plucking, isolate the bully in a dog crate for a while so that bully one will be the lowest in the pecking...

Do a BYC search on 'pinless peepers'.  They're basically chicken 'blinders'.  They keep them from being able to see straight ahead to grasp individual feathers.  I had to order mine, but they're not that...

Do a 'feather picking' or 'feather plucking' or 'feather pecking' search on here.  You can find some help.  Some swear by Vicks vapor rub on the pecked on chicken, some pine tar, but nothing worked on mine except the...

The ones I have had that look like this are victims of pecking.  You mentioned you'd noticed some.  Mine did it on the roost so their antics weren't obvious at first.  You can mull that one over & be on the lookout...

Ditto with the crows.  I love it when they divebomb the hawks but they're not always around.  I put some corn out for them, too, sometimes they show, sometimes they don't.  But the hawks are always nearby, ever waiting...