Recent content by Solanacae

Ah, I see. I’ll try that next time I have to take my dogs in for their shots. This time around, it looks like I’ll have to pass.

You combine dog and chicken droppings? Or combined droppings from all your chickens?

I’m hesitant to keep her inside for an extended period of time, she has a friend that sticks around with her and I d like to avoid complicated reintroductions back to the rest of the flock. She wasn’t particularly high on the pecking order to begin with. She has definitely enjoyed being warmer...

Updated pictures from this morning. Her crop was clear, had a good appetite and drank a lot. I poked the shiny stuff in the poop, it’s got the texture of firm boogers, slippery but holds its shape. It was in several places. I poked apart the firmer poops and didn’t see anything moving. I...

Also, what is a cecal core?

Thank you for responding! I was gone for much of today and now there’s a lot more poops on the towel. Would there be a chance they’ll still be moving after 12 hours? Or would they be dried out? I’ll call around to see if I can find someone that will do a fecal float. Do you know the egg...

I have a chicken that I think has worms. Last night I brought her inside after finding her sleeping on the floor of the coop rather than roosting. She was so light when I picked her up and after examining her, she’s very skinny. She has been acting off for a while, but she had a very hard, late...

Hooray for snow! Your description of shaking your jacket bring to mind the Spanish bull fighters, only trying to break up two bulls from fighting. 🤪

Wow, those chicken/pheasant hybrids are beautiful. Wouldn’t that be a fascinating addition to your flock! Sorry about your leg, I hope it’s only superficial.

I moved from a zone 5 area (historically zone 4 until the USDA adjusted zones to reflect more recent data due to climate change) to zone 6 (historically zone 5). The warmer zone, plus finding a variety that is reputed to be more cold hardy than any other type means I’m reasonably confident it...

Tax from the last few days: I let everyone out to do a little work in the garden for me. First picture shows Estella and Genevieve trying to decide if the allure of the garden (which all the older chickens were super excited about) is worth walking past Sisko, who likes to trail after them and...

I’ve seen this on the local chicken FB page. Generally accompanied by the statement that they switched feed two days previous and now they’re getting eggs. I’m considering making responses that I can copy and paste, like how do determine if a hen is laying, and the fact that switching feed does...

Same here. The lady’s take on the egg laying situation was interesting to me, because of her emphasis on nutrition has on the bird. Like you and @BDutch have noted, mine lay with far less light and I’m of the opinion the increasing/decreasing has much more influence on laying that those that...

If you are getting Leghorns or Barred Rocks from any of the major hatcheries, you’re going to get a bird that’s been bred for egg production. Technically both these breeds are heritage breeds, in that they have been around for a long time, but when a bird is bred for high egg production, you’ll...

Yes, it holds true more for heritage breeds than production ones. Most of the people who were complaining about the eggs stopping were also saying things like ‘nothing else has changed’ ‘checked for mites/lice, chickens are acting healthy’ and were looking for explanations for why their flocks...