Recent content by BravewingTheHen

Hmmm.... Did you have them mailed to you? Occasionally chicks die on the way when being mailed, or die afterwards from being shook up to much. With that second red chick... could you post more symptoms? Is he unable to open his eyes?

It is an Araucana, from my knowledge. They are born without tails.

Hello. I have a white Silkie hen who has Wry Neck. I have been giving her Vitamin E Oil and a special poultry medicine. I know she could have had a head injury, as she did fall off the roost at one point. But I really don't want to lose her to something I could have helped her through. Any cure...

Yes, I'm afraid that's definitely frostbite. Here's a few links for treatments. http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-treat-frostbite-in-chickens.html http://www.tillysnest.com/2013/01/frostbite-and-backyard-chickens.html...

If she has frostbitten feet, her feet will be a very dark blueish purplish colour, almost a black. Has she been sitting in the nesting box a lot lately, even though she's not broody? Has she been staying inside the coop a lot? Does she limp and/or have very stiff feet? Are her feet cold (maybe...

I know that chickens don't get colds, as Eggcessive mentioned, but at least 6 of my 10 chickens in October started showing cold like symptoms, kind of like the type of cold a person gets. They had runny noses, they sneezed, and their eyes watered. I just put some tetracycline in their water and...

My Silkie has Wry Neck right now and she started out a having a hook in her neck, like your rooster. Then she had a symptom in which her head moved around almost snake-like, turning upside down a lot, and she backed into things constantly. I started giving her Vitamin E Oil everyday with...

Wry neck maybe? You could try searching it up to see if any of the symptoms match.

You could try searching up Wry Neck, my little Silkie has that right now and she's been doing okay, yet my hen Bravewing (yes, the one on which I named my account after) ended up dying from it. Your chicken sounds a little different though... Watch this video I found of someone's chicken and...

Rat poisons are safe in two ways; Firstly they are quite target specific and secondly they have to be taken in a dose proportionate to the body weight of the animal. It will be hard to tell whether the poison has affected him or not. I hear Vitamin K is the antidote, but I can't be sure. Here's...

Hmm.. Not quite positive about some things, but here is a link of some chicken diseases. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps030

Hmm... First of all, I'm no expert. I'm just going off of what I've experienced, And after looking at the picture of your bird, I feel like I've seen this before. First of all, has she been twisting her neck around in a snake-like motion and backing into things? Second, does she walk around...

I am not sure about diagnosing it, but this link should take you to a post about gapeworm in chickens and how to treat it. Read posts 13 and 14. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/602699/worming-chickens/10#post_7931055 Hope your roo gets better!

Thanks Blue CopperHen and wsufans. I will try Vaseline on his comb.