Posts by ChaoticCritters

Quote: Originally Posted by katharine  what is tricare? I can't find it online. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=16438

We have POOP!   Never thought I would be happy about this but despite eating/drinking, we've had no poop. Well she made up for that this morning. I think she pooped half her body weight.   She is refusing to eat...

My vet said to rinse the wounds with plain cold water and then coat it in TriCare. I've got a dog-mauled chicken recovering right now.   TriCare seems to be my vets go-to (he's now told me to use it on 3 different horses as...

She's eating and drinking a little bit. She either perches on the side of the laundry basket or snuggles in it and if I stick food/water right under her beak, she will take a bit.   She ate about 1/3 of an egg yolk hardboiled,...

The neighbor's dog was over here AGAIN last night, I didn't see anything but the neighbor hauling his dog away as I was leaving. Sent kid out to check on the chickens and she said everyone was fine... well she miscounted and this...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bear Foot Farm  Then I don't understand why you asked if a Coyote could have done it Because we didn't see what happened the first time, my child just found her absolute favorite...

We know for sure it's the dog, after it was over here terrorizing my dog, it came back over that night and I SAW it catching chickens. It grabbed an Americauna by the tail who escape with a naked butt and then jumped after a Black sex...

I feel your pain. My child's pride and joy (a gigantic cochin that laid an egg *maybe* 1x per year and took great pride in pecking me) was decapitated. Neighbor's of course are claiming that it wasn't their dog that has repeatedly...

The missing chickens showed up this morning at my back door squawking for breakfast. Never been so happy to get a 4am wake-up call!   It was definitely the neighbor's dog...she too showed up (after I locked up the missing...

Hysterical child found a nearly decapitated hen today. We free-range our chickens as the ONLY predator we have seen (or lost a chicken to) in the past several years is a coyote.   Chicken appears to have no signs of trauma...