Recent content by Tyrovive

Thank you! I treated her side and scalp/comb wounds with wound care cleaning, butterfly closures and Blu-Kote. The side is still missing feathers and her comb is partially detached but they have healed better than I expected. She is eating, drinking and defecating. Interacts to the point of...

She was assaulted by multiple cockerel. Pulling up her comb and slicing open her right side on March 26, 2023. She is one of my favorite hens and was my best layer. Now she lays no shell or soft eggs. Also she has not rejoined the flock, staying on the porch and trying to get in the house. Has...

How is it doing? I just saw this

I have thought that the chicken or a frog should be venerated since they can naturally change gender characteristics due to environmental conditions. 🤔

I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for posting your experience. I'm concerned about my favorite hen, Fricassee, who had been injured by a group of roosters. Laceration on her right side and a ripped comb/partial scalping. She seems to have healed from those injuries but went off laying, lost her...

You are a well trained ‘chicken tender’ like me 🤣 my chicken, Fricassée, and her rooster, Purple Rain, waits on the porch swing to be carried to the coop.

Nope 🤢They are solely a bird treat at my house

What is Dove like? where do you source it? Or do you raise it yourself?

Next day in the ED - “I don’t know why my back hurts.”

Frank with Elvis in background

Thanks it is actually a still from a video where she was scorching in next to him.😊 I have another camera to monitor his progress on his first nest.

Elvis, the odd guy out, looking at Doris and Frank on nest. Of course I wasn’t in time for the recent contest😒

I love it when chicks show their testosterone early! I love that energy!!

A beautiful hen😊

I have 3 emus that function as my chicken flock guardians so they can free range. They even break up rooster fights. I agree with @Pyxis They need to get familiar with their farm-mates. We keep new chicks in separate coop so the emus will accept them.