Recent content by Katsouth

Yes. It’s not actually in the coop. It’s on the porch because the girls love to come out and play even when it’s cold as cold gets. I thought they may have looked singed but then a bunch of them look just broken to me. Still seem like it was a singe?

They are not. Not before or after. She’s top dog

Understood on heat lamp and knew I’d catch flack there but we do make educated decisions for our flock based on our unique scenario and sometimes bitter winters. We have a sweeter for the coop which is fine. Not being picked on, she is (or was) top pecking order. Wasn’t being picked on and...

Our reliable layer, a normally sassy cream legbar has taken a break from egg laying for two weeks! She is normally a daily layer and the weather has been nice so it’s odd. We noticed some feather issue last week and wonder if it has something to do with it. She’s also been less of a sass, a...

Vet thinks she’s on her way out but avian vets in Colorado are a joke. She’s had non-solid green white clear mucous poop for weeks. Antibiotics doing nothing. She won’t eat or drink now. She won’t even sit. She is like 8 months. She’s the sweetest. I’m so sad for her I can’t think. I’ve tried...

Whatever happened here? This is my hen now. She has had this poop forever and labored breathing. She’s dying and I’m so upset.

What happened?

We have a lethargic young hen (not laying but may have layed 2-4 soft eggs so far). We checked crop, vent, tried to feel stomach. Nothing feels super off except she’s so small compared to the rest. We think she may have a bacterial infection- so sleepy, falling asleep standing up, wouldn’t get...

Hi, how long do you dose for? We also have a 2lb sickling and i have some amoxicillin so I’ve got the math down but for how long?

Hey there, Waffle is a salmon favorelle, 9 weeksish and she kind of distances herself from the other four girls. Theyre about nine weeks old. Her underbite is particularly bad and this is after my husband filed it. It seems like she eats wet mash OK but I have yet to see her pick up a single...

Sorry, our bully EE, I suppose. I’m not bothered that she’s not pure Americauna and I’ve read this a lot but only now do I fully understand. We wanted Easter Eggers so we are totally fine with it. We love them the same regardless. We are just scared we are going to have to give one up if it’s a...

Interesting. How do you know and what kind? Because she’s the most beautiful and good tempered lady and I love her to pieces. Do you think they’re both female?

Even our bully Americana? I think now from memory that cream legbars are autosexed. And she’s so beautiful. She simply can’t be a roo!

I was positive. We had all females, but the americana, pictured first, the biggest one is starting to look more and more like a roo. She/he is also dominant and a bit of a bully. The cream legbar (mowhawk one) is sweet as pie and I’ll die if she’s a he! What say you? They’re only about 8...

These chicks are three weeks old. Interestingly, we have two salmon favorolles and one is the biggest and one is the smallest. Sometimes in the mornings, all four of the fairly normal sized chicks are on top of the radiant heat just chilling out but the smallest is still underneath. I feel bad...