Recent content by Lyntle

My poor Doomed Ones are way too fat to roost. :) They all generally sleep together underneath the nest box the other chickens use. I have BJ in a small coop by herself, with straw to sleep on, but no roost.

Thank you for the information. There are no vets around here that treat chickens, so I'm on my own. :( She seems to feel fine, but walking is difficult. I should say more difficult, because she is a "meat chicken" that was sold to us as a "regular" laying chicken. So she and her three surviving...

Can bumblefoot develop on an upper joint? The growths are at knee/elbow (not sure what this joint would be called) level.

I have a hen with a large, round, growth on her leg. It's like a large marble attached to the back of her leg at the joint, but squishy, not hard. Might be like what's wrong with your rooster? I drained bloody pus from it, but that didn't seem to help. She has a smaller, second one, too. I...