Recent content by sinistershelly

I'd have to say my best advice would be, if you want happy chickens, always make sure you don't have too many roosters. From experience and what I have seen, one rooster to every 1-10 hens. And if you can, have the groups separated in their own spaces. Roosters will fight each other! Roosters...

I have 3 BR hens and they do a weird screechy growl. They don't sound normal, lol. I have one who is my buddy, Will FLY out of the coop if she hears my coming, will do her growl at my feet and Ill pick her up and cuddle her and she will softly growl to me like she is "talking" or telling me a...

I know silkies are hard to sex but if my buff cochin roo is mounting one of them already, is it safe to say that that silkie is a hen or is it normal for a roo to mount a boy?

I just bought a new goat. She is supposed to be pregnant but I am having serious doubts and the previous owner is swearing she is. She said she could see and feel the baby moving in her. But when i go to rub her big ol tummy, it feels hollow to me like maybe she is just big. How exactly can I...

she was in an XL dog crate with 3 other lil silkies. The others have been put outside for the day and I put this one in its own medium sized crate. They are all on medicated food atm. I never saw anyone pick on her. They all did just finish a 2 week does of antibiotic because a couple were sick...

Here is a not so good picture after the bath. You can see less red, still bulging and a lot of gooy white stuff.

Not sure of sex or age. Age I would guess 3 maybe 4 weeks old. I just gave it a bath so I could clean up the rear, most of it was blood and a pastey white substance and can see better. it looks almost like the rear end is flipped inside out but is still leaking clear and white pretty badly with...

Anyone? Plz!!!! I was able to inspect a lil closer, I noticed also a clear and whiteish fluid is just seeping and dripping out uncontrollably, any ideas? Should I keep it separate from the others? What is going on with it?

My lil frizzle I noticed today has a bloody rear end. I noticed for the past week it has been slowly losing its feathers on its butt and now today its (anus?) is kind of bulged out and bloody looking. She is also shaking really badly and crying a lot. What do i do?

I bathe my silkies because for whatever reason, they feel like they have to take turns sleeping under the roost and end up pooping on each other, so gross. I use my kids no tear shampoo. I just use the largest, not used for food anymore, mixing bowl i have and fill it with the soap and then some...

I went on Craigslist and found a person selling and wanting to trade some chicks. I ended up bring home 5 lil ones. 2 blue silkies, 1 splash silkie, and 2 splash frizzle cochins. When I went to pick them up, I noticed the cages they were in were really really crowded. They didn't look very dirty...

Lol, Ty. My mother in law sent me that joke and I HAD to share it with my BYC buddies, it was just too perfect not to share.

My Favorite Animal Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, "Fried chicken." She said I wasn't funny, but she couldn't have been right, because everyone else laughed. My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal. I told my dad...