Recent content by degarmo2911

I'm headed to get the medicines now. Thank you, everyone. I'll keep you posted. I will say that she was out of the coop this morning at feeding time, and she was pecking at the food. That's a good sign. At least she wasn't still sleeping.

She's only six months old, so nowhere near a good molt yet. Can I get those medicines you mentioned at the local tractor supply store?

I honestly had no idea what a crop was, so I just googled it. I'm not sure about hers, but I will check her in the morning and again in the evening. They're all asleep in the coop now. As far as the manure goes, it looks the same as everybody else's. No blood or diarrhea or anything. The rest of...

Hello, My six-month old Buff Orpington, Percy, is not doing well, and it will break our hearts if she passes. I'm not sure what's going on with her, and I'm not having a lot of luck online finding a condition that fits her symptoms. She just seems to be lethargic. In the morning, our other...

I'm sorry to say that we had to put our hen down yesterday. She really went downhill the night before and really, it was the only humane thing to do since she experienced what a lot of the other chickens on this thread did. I'm not sure I'm up to being a backyard farmer. I love all my birds and...

Hello, I'm looking for some information for my 4-month-old Buff Orpington chicken. We noticed today when we allowed them to free-range that one of our hens wasn't acting right. She was sort of squatted down and her comb was strangely droopy. We happened to look at her behind and found an...

Thank you, everyone! Great information already! I'm so pleased to be here. I have a general question maybe you could answer: My hubby and I like the idea of raising our chicks organically, so we can get organic eggs from them. However, I read the Backyard Chicken's "Care of chicks for the...

Hello! My name is Jess, and my husband Travis and I will be getting our first chicks soon! We're very excited, and very new at this. We've been doing lots of research, and we think we've narrowed our chick choices down to Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Chantecler chickens. We think we...