Recent content by 2GigglyGirls

No, she has ZERO interest in food. She will drink if I hold the water up to her (like she can't bend over to drink) but even if I offer her food (or treat) I can touch her beak and she glares at me. I am separating her this am and will try egg/tuna. We lost a chicken a year ago to a disease that...

I noticed that one of my hens stayed on her outdoor roost all day yesterday. When I went to put her inside, she made it clear she did not want to be moved - she is not walking at all. I put her inside the hen house and fed my girls and she made no move to eat. So I gave her food where I put her...

Really not what I was wanting to hear... but thank you. :-(

She eats, bright eyed, alert - just suddenly can't walk.

Nope, no new birds in 3 years and no other birds within close to a mile. I've read quite a bit and she really acts like other that have had kinky back.

My Rhode Island Red is 3.5 years old and suddenly not walking. We have checked everything we can online and have come to think that it is kinky back. Is there anything we can do to help her? She struggles so much and I have to bathe her twice a day... I don't see her improving (just saw...

I just picked up some tetracycline Hydrochloride powder... now off to find directions that make sense for us common folk! I hope Hedwig gets better!!!!

Answered my own question.. there were "bite" marks on her wounds. Ugh!! Poor thing! Here are photos 5 days later... I freshly applied medicine so all shiny, but they actually seem to be healing pretty good. I still don't get how she made it through all this... but I thank God for sparing our...

Somehow they knocked the fencing over (folded up kennel fencing, miracle no one was hurt!) - and Angel was out with the other hens / rooster. There were some feathers around (maybe 5 or 6?) - and I did see one of them peck her on the head. Is that just normal pecking order or would this have...

Thank you! Something so simple! I just blocked the opening from the outdoor yard to the indoor house with a kennel fence panel. Now they are chatting it up!

Angel is improving but today she seems very upset that I have her separated from the other chickens (stayed at the closed hen house door ALL DAY LONG. She still has way too much exposed flesh / muscle for her to be around the other chickens without fear of them attacking. How can I help her get...

Oh man, poor Fuzzy Bum!!! I started to read; will read more once kids are in bed. Thanks for the moral support... I'm going to get her settled back in the cat carries so she can have a quiet night. I think I'll let my oldest child wash the wounds... she's my little 4H'er and has a way with...

would internal injuries be obvious by now? How long should I keep her inside? I don't want her around the other chickens when her wounds are so bad, but put the cat kennel she was in next the baby chickens were keeping in hopes of keeping the social aspect... I don't know. I feel helpless. City...

Dog tore out a lot of feathers... two areas about golf ball size pretty raw and her breast area seems either raw muscle or just bare skin (one side looks torn, but the other looks clean). She is eating and drinking (been 24 hours). I kept her inside last night and gave her an hour outside this...

Here are updated photos of the girls (hopefully) now... 8 weeks (the one above is the first one):