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Thank you so much for your considerate reply. Yes the morning will tell.

Hi good folks, Questions that have arisen for me to ask others, resulting from my long day today, see how it unfolded (in details below): Qu1: Has anyone used a method of stopping their hen from flapping??? during times like this? Qu2: What is your safest and non-upheaval way to quarantine a...

how do you get all these good remedies INTO the birds?

Yay, I had concluded that my Isa Brown was just this sort of personality - a complainer more than an alarmist. Quite laid back really. But oh when she starts complaining about something it is either full volume or escalates to full volume. And if she really wants ME to do something about it, she...

Thanks Sandman55 for your prompt response to my current concern. This morning before I left for work (in the dark of 6am on a cold southern morning) I loaded myself up with book polish and a cloth. I thought if I layered and rubbed it into the smoother timber arms that push the other up to open...

You inspired me about year or so ago to design my own treadle feeder. I got to and used timber that was treated with non-toxic substance, so it would last the outdoor elements and be safe. And I recycled the arms of deck chairs for the arm mechanisms. It nearly exploded my brain to figure out...

I have scanned high and low in BYC and other online resources regarding what method is best for ending the life of a sick/injured bird. (I have to do this myself with my bird for there first time and thought others might appreciate this nut shell version of methods). Here are the main methods...

Seminolewind, thanks for you post above. To answer you question... Yes, my chickens have the garden to forage in /free range daily from breakfast to sunset. It is an urban yard. I am thinking it is not MD. She wants to get up and go. She has no body sores, no eye /perception problems, has...

Hi there, thanks for your responses above. I really have exhausted all avenues of what the intrusive noise is. So that is why I threw it into the forum arena. I am more at ease with it mostly but without understanding it leaves me in the dark. She was an only chicken when she arrived over a...

Oh I just thought too. In relation to risk of disease etc.... we had some mice and even rats this autumn season (not just my property but other neighbours too that don't have an aviary or chickens). I don't have any now, but I am thinking, that maybe they have carried something to my property...

Thanks for your input Seminolewind. You asked for my Poultry History: I have three current members of the flock, as I have spoken about above. Serogate mother to two @17weeks Chicks. One is hen and one it turns out is a rooster. The serrate mother, is Isa Brown, and she arrived on my urban...

Oh Guppy, I never did get your post sent to my mail box all this time ago. And I thought no one responded so I abandoned the search. And I am only online again because of a more serious matter with another chicken that I found this old post. I know the 'egg song' - which she rarely sings, she...

I have emailed the chicken farm that sold me the fertilised eggs (which my broody Isa Brown hatched). I await his response to my pictures and story. Because I will need to do something about the chick that is crowing more and more ---- she is a rooster! So if it if no Mareks Disease he can be...

Thanks. She ate her scrabbled eggs this morning (Australian time).

This marek virus is consuming for the chickens isn't it. I do agree with a post I read recently, that stress can induce e.g. environmental - weather, predators prowling. As with the human herpes simplex (that breaks out through the facial nerves - and potentially herpes complex - generals)...

Thanks Eggcessive. I will try the Vit B approach. If it was the virus, how soon would the other girls be affected? And what do people do, after culling the first/ affected ones? Just let selection take place??? After vit b 1.2. or multi B etc and I find it works, what shall I do then...

After reading and reading the forum on injuries of legs, I resolved around ten days ago to not cull my 16 wk chicken - Rhodesian Red. But I question now whether I have done the right thing. About three weeks ago one morning she presented walking strange, where she was walking on her right foot...

I am forced to revisit this question I will ask, since... about one month ago a chicken appeared in my enclosed front yard and has not left! I have had chickens before but none in the yard until this hen joined me. I would really like to know what it means when they let out the drone of a...

Sorry your girl is not well. Unsure what to say if it is the wasps, that she has ingested or been affected by. Have you considered these very simple remedies before? http://hencam.com/faq/diagnosing-a-sick-chicken/ I have a sick chick presently too, so I am searching for some pieces of the...

Hello, I am sorry to hear of you plight. And very sorry I am not a good experienced source to help you. I empathise only in this situation as I too had some urgent need earlier in the year, and had little help for what seemed like days when I had a sick chicken, who I ended up saying goodbye...