Tonight I found my bantam rooster dead. Lots of feathers in a small.area and then just a few feet away there he was. His head and breast are was intact. All his insides were eaten. The rest of the flock was safely in the coop. It happened in the daytime. He was last seen on camera around 3pm...
I have a 1yr old Buckeye with one eye with a light film on the bottom. I would love advice. I have fish amoxicillan and vetrimycn spray on hand but can go to Tractor Supply tonight. She is the only one with an eye like that and is acting fine otherwise
This is our coop before we decided to add on to it. We have 6 hens and decided to add to our flock. The orange and white posts show where the new run will be.
First, we went to Lowe's and spent way, way too much money.
Then he took off the old run and started building the new area...
I have a chick hatched on Tuesday that the mom rejected and attacked. It is injured on the side of it's head and neck, but the injury seems to be healing. It will be without sight on that side as well:( This chick is the only chick that hatched. It drinks by itself now, but barely does...
Our easter egger, Milky Way went broody and I got a couple of fertilized eggs for her to sit on. One hatched and this morning I went out to check and found the little chick trembling in the box with her. I went to try and get the chick under Milky Way and noticed the blood on the back wall...
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My family has our first flock of chickens. We had 6 hens that we raised since April of this year. Yesterday (Thanksgiving morning), our sweet Vanilla was killed. A cement bird bath top came off and crushed her. This is our first loss and I am heartbroken. It was just so unexpected and...
Hello, I am Nicole and we have our first chickens! We got them almost 4 weeks ago. There are 2 EE, Vanilla and Milky Way, 2 RIR, Ember and Sunrise and 2 BO, Clarence and Pablo. All are pullets (we think/hope). I have a 13 year old who is helping as much as she can and a 10 year old boy as...