lolacan, she seems okay, feet look a=ok. we have been brining her in at night and letting her roam around to warm up. She is still pretty small maybe 3-4 months
i have 3 girls, buff orphington blck sexlink and a silkie. They all get along great, i went out two nights ago and the two girls other than the silkie both had black on their combs and white on one. I just dont want them to get infected or lose them to this cold weather.
i am against them as well, but temps in the -25 below are tough, i am going to take it out the coming week as the temps will rise. Gonna go out and bring them in the basement tonight and let them prounce around for a bit to warm up
struggling with this frost bite thing, coop is ventilated properly and i have a heat lamp in there but both have it on their feet and combs, also i have a silkie and do not know if she has frostbite or not...hard to tell. i'm worried about my girls
we have a heat lamp in the coop but i looked at her this morning and she seemed to be fine, moving okay. her head was a little crusty from ice but idk. Going to bring her inside tonight for the kiddos to say hi and warm her up
Help please, this will be my first winter and its get cold in Nebraska. So I will start from the top, my coop is not your ordinary coop it is a shed building made out of plastic/resin material and is 4 by 6. Plenty of room for my three girls. It has one window on each side, one I cut out...
I mean the coop is fairly small maybe 8 by 8, I have an attached run that is prob 10 by 10 so they have room to run around, the older chick just doesn't leave her alone. I put a second and third roost in their coop so she could roost on her own. I just hope she gets bigger fast so she can...
Hey y'all, i have three chickens total two laying hens and one that is maybe 3-4 months. the little on is a silkie and is getting picked on by the one hen the black sex link. she always pecks her and when they are on the roost she pecks her some more. What can i do to get he to stop and leave...
Also, is it normal for them about once or twice a week, we are getting eggs with no shell and once a wek we are getting over sized eggs with two yolks in them. Is this normal?
So quick question, we integrated a silkie chick about 3 weeks ago into the coop with the other two ladies who are around 8-9 months and are laying daily!!! At night when they get up on the roost the two big girls get up on the roost and the little girl sits on the edge of the box..If I put the...
We feed them some scratch, and now pellets. They get veggies as well as fruits as treats and they range the yard throughout the day. Just recently we have been giving them a meal worm mix as well as egg shells and oyster shells. They eat well and they look like healthy birds just didn't know...