🦅🐦 We have a big problem every winter here in Western Colorado with wild birds trying to over winter in our barn. Our chickens sleep in the barn in their coop and go out to their fenced in run through their electronic door that opens automatically in the morning. The barn is big, and the coop...
Miles the Rooster seems to have a prolapsed rectum- or at least that is what it looks like. His vent (what I would consider his rectum where he exudes fecal matter) is red and raw. The fecal matter seems to get hard and compacted. I’ve cleaned it out several times by gently removing the crusted...
Over the past three days my little pullett Maren hen has basically started to lose strength and become listless. She’s about four months old, and at two months I had to treat her for coryza (antibiotics, removal of hard exudate in eye socket; see my December posts about this) and since then she...
Hi, I posted here a few weeks ago about my little chick with coryza. We treated her and I removed an abscess behind her eye, and she seems to be flourishing now. She’s about a ¾ size chicken, technically still a pullet and has been raised indoors all this time. She acts more like a parrot than a...
Hello,
I have a sweet little Maran Pullet about 9-10 weeks old that I bought from a private individual who had a small chicken farm. I bought two at the time, same age, and after two weeks one of them, seemingly not growing and not thriving but otherwise normal, died one morning. The other...
I am needing to order poultry feed online, due to health problems and difficulty being able to go and pick up poultry feed every two weeks. Does anyone know where on the web one can order chicken layer crumbles or mash (or other poultry feed, for that matter) from an organic source, preferably...