Posts by happymom99

Hello,   I hope this is the right area of the forum to post this...   I recently posted about my hens having avian pox and learned that their eggs are safe to eat.  After I got that great news I realized...

Hello,   My chickens are unwell.  I know they have avian pox and I posted about that and got some answers.  Well, now this morning when my silkie was in the nestbox I saw something small crawling on that featherless...

I am having a hard time getting a pic because the silkie is black and all of its features blend together.  I am trying with my iphone though.  My husband, who is better with the camera than though, is going to try to get a...

I bought two day-old silkies and they look very different from one another and I have been pretty confident one is a girl and one is a boy.  They are just over 6 months old now. The one that I think is a boy has a big knobby comb...

Hello, I am pretty confident that my girls have this. :( I've been reading on these forums and from what I've seen there isn't much to do other than give them electrolytes, put neosporin or betadine on the lesions and wait it out....

My girls often scoop so much of their nesting material out of the way that they lay right onto the plywood of the nestbox and the eggs sometimes crack. :(  Somewhere along that way I heard about some sort of liner that can be...

I have seen blood spots on yolks on my eggs as well as in/on purchased eggs and I am not talking about blood spots.  These are more like small bits in the white.  I also once found something that seemed sort of crunchyish in...

Quote: Originally Posted by audrey02026  I have one D'Uncle and she flies circles around the yard she can get up pretty high and can fly for a great distance.  I have a large yard though and she never leaves...

I am sorry, everyone, but I no longer have her. I am limited on the number of birds I can have and I really wanted silver-laced so I did not keep her. Thank you so much for all the help! We will never know what she is but we know she...

What a shame. Sorry for your lost hens. Well, not the answer I wanted to hear but it is a good thing I heard it. I guess I'd better not get a d'uccle. It sounds like they fly too well for my yard. Thank you, CJ