Recent content by jessica8804

Yes a pellet gun

It was a rainy day and when the rain had stopped at about 5pm, I felt so bad locking all my girls up and I let them out. Big mistake. Luckily my husband heard the chain link fence rattle. We think that it was a younger fox, on his own. He killed one of my full grown hens before my husband got...

The toe are all separated. Not fused. Sorry for the poor pictures. Thank you for your help!! Canceled my appointment

I have a chicken (I think it’s a rooster that’s not crowing yet) that’s 8 mo old. When he was 2 months old he got picked in a lot and almost died once. One of the injuries was broken toe nail that finally started growing back but there’s skin over it, I think. No puss. When I squeeze it he...

Cluck just passed. I tried draining the fluid, may have done too much. Was probably way too late. Pay attention to your flock and start researching as soon as you notice bizarre behavior. I could have maybe added a few months. But this prognosis is never good. RIP to the chicken who was the most...

I have probed the vent with lots of ky jelly. I'm not totally sure if I feel an egg there or not? I started with the warm epsom salt bath and have been repeating. I feel like I can maybe feel something hard from the outside near inbetween her legs-probably normal anatomy? I've been getting her...

This chicken is almost 3 months old, when I got her out of my friends basement we thought she was just depressed and the next day I came home and found her laying on her side with her legs out, looking kinda dead, but she wasn't. Wasn't sure what it was at that point. A vet tech suggested...

Thanks !! She's eating the paste! Should I stop with the amoxicillin? Prob going to order the stuff you suggested online so may take a while to get here.... So this sounds like more then depression to you?

So I first picked up one of the 2, 7 mo old chicks from a friend bc one was picking on the other. I warned about depression and sure enough a few days later he asked if I would take the other bc she was sad. When I picked her up she barely lifting her head off he ground. Totally thought it was...

The My friend had two 7 month old hens in his warm basement, the one I have was picking on the other too much. When I said yes to take her I didn't know she was an inside hen, being that it's 10 degrees in Chicago right now.... I have four hens that range from 3 years to 2 years old. I know to...

This really helps!! Thank you so much. my father in law think that it was a young coyote being trained on how to hunt :( Also I would call animal control, but I just got done fighting the city for chickens to be legal here. The verdict was that backyard chickens are not allowed here, but I am...

What does STBDRT stand for? what I am getting from this is that anytime of day coyotes will eat?! If I do come face to face with one what should I do? When 2 were outside with my 20lb french bulldog I screamed and nothing happened... We have a small gun, i think its a pellet gun, with special...

There was a rain storm last night and I let my 8 hens out around 7 am, as usual. Around 7:30 am a coyote got one hen and then he came back and got another. I live right next to a small creek in the western suburbs of Chicago and my problem predators have been a hawk, raccoon, and now this...

Thank you so much! I'm going to devise a fence like divider in my coop tom, hopefully they all make it through the night bc there's a bad storm out there :(