Posts by birdface

Found one of my chickens dead tonight. Dont know from what. No apparent attack from anything and she seemed pefectly healthy. The only thing that it could be was she stole a piece of pizza from my daughter today and ate some cheese...

3 chickens. 3 poopy butts.  one of my girls; a buff orp.; constantly has a dirty rear and no matter what i do i cant keep it clean. Ive given up on her. My cochin is usally a little dirty just cause she has extra fluff but today i...

I now realize it should say bloody...im trying to tyer too fast

So i let the girls out this morning and noticed that my newest girl; a salmon faverolle; has a bloddy spot on her comb. great.  Is there anything that i can put on it to help keep the other two girls from pickingit apart? They...

I have a salmon faverolle that keeps shaking her head. No sneezing,snot or anything else. I am beliving that its just her trying to get her beard out of her eyes. Any other ideas as to what it might be. It looks like a nervouse twitch...

Is 16 weeks too young to be feeding layer. I just put two birds in with my older ones that are laying and have a bunch of food left. i dont want to go buy a bag of flock raiser to use for just a couple of weeks. I do have a lot of...

What is acv? do i just got to the store and ask for it that way?

At around what age do chickens usally start "getting busy"? I have an Ameraucana and Salmon faveolle i want to get together. They are both 4+ months old. The AM is the roo and im really hoping they get it on befor he gets too loud and...

Yeah its gross. If she would hold still i would just blast her with the hose. I had to dust her with DE the other day and when i held her up side down she started flapping like crazy and flung poop all over me....i almost...

Not sure if this goes here but.... I have a chicken that cant seem to keep her butt clean. She always has poo pasted to it, and its not just a little.  It almost seems like it is just leaking out. I have cleaned her in a hot bath...