Recent content by swampbrat

I thought your pun was egg-cellent. ;)

Thanks everybody. I am waiting for my husband to get home and he will cull her. I don't want her to suffer anymore. :( On a less sad note, one of my leghorns laid her first egg today. :)

:love THANK Y'ALL :love I appreciate all the help and support.

Thank you.

:( Yep- that's definitely something my husband or someone else will have to do for me. I'm too attached. But I know it's most likely necessary. I appreciate your help.

I've never had to do it. :( But I know my husband has some friends at work who know how. We don't have a vet in the area that treats chickens, but I could maybe check with one anyway if my husband's co-workers can't help. :( :(

Unfortunately I agree with both of y'all. :(

I'm afraid it's not fixable either. I haven't seen any poop since I removed her from the flock this morning and I don't think she's eaten anything. She just seems to be chilling right now, but she seems fluffed out some (I can't think of the word). She attempted to run when I went to move her to...

My 16 month old hen has always been kind of weird looking. Her butt always hangs low and she waddles. She also always lays eggs with no shell- but rarely lays at all. So obviously something has been off since she hatched. Anyway, this morning I found 14 soft shelled eggs in the coop. A few were...

Thank y'all so much! I'm hoping that's all the cockrels. I'm pretty positive about the rest of the flock. Here is a side view of chicken #1 from the first post.

I have always bought pre-sexed chicks, but this past year we hatched 15 babies. So, I seriously have no idea what sex they are. They are mixed breed- and I lost track of who the mother was, but I'm guessing. The dad was an ameraucana. I *think* out of the 15 that 5 are roos. But I honestly don't...

Y'all are so funny! I actually enjoy looking at the pics too. I sent them to my son in the Army and he was like "Why are you sending these to me??" lol The girls are doing good. I actually think Caramel (the one with the double eye infection) is blind in one eye. She kept having yellow pus...

I meant to update a couple days ago... Both chickens eyes are doing SO much better. Caramel had one eye that kept getting more goop in it and she wouldn't open it for me to dr. I had to keep popping out more yellow grossness. But as of today, no goop and her eye looks healthy. I'm so happy they...

Good news!! Caramel- the one with 2 infections- has one eye showing some AND she's started eating on her own. I can tell her vision is off. She has to turn her head a ton and sometimes her aim is off. But she's eating! She's been eating yogurt and apple sauce, etc. thru a syringe for a week, so...