Removed the shavings and replaced with just paper towels. It took 24 hours but they stopped itching. I'll keep to paper towels for a week and then switch to sand. The pine was irritating them. Thank you all for the help :)
Just picked up day old jersey giant chicks, arrived in the mail at my local chicken store today. They are scratching themselves like crazy. What could be causing this?
I have a friend who wants to take the chicken. I have explained everything and they are going to take the chance.
My girls aren't accepting this chicken and I am thinking it is a roo too. But my friend wants it either way. So we'll find out eventually I guess.
Hasn't crowed, but also hasn't laid an egg that I have seen. The Deleware has laid an egg.
I'm concerned that instead of a red sex-link hen they passed me a RIR rooster.
So I won a pair of hens...specifically laying hens just coming into their first lay. It was a Facebook contest from a new small farm in Scio, OR.
So flash forward picked them up, it's been raining place was rainy, muddy, and they apologized that they were still getting the place set up, just...
I'm planning on sending hubby and my ten year old up to get a starter flock we gave away our flock last fall. . . and well we haven't been able to keep to that, and we have realized once and for all that we're a family who needs to have chickens. We miss them too much!
That said my wish list is...