My buff orphanage face was covered and I flipped out and found a great thread last night from a gentleman here in central Florida who had the same problem. His suggestion of Adams flea spay and DE dust bath has those little blood suckers running. It's going to be a tough battle with all the sand...
My buff orpaghan started doing this weird head twitching while she was laying down in the sun today. Is this normal or a seizure. She's never done this before, or at any other time.
My girls have started to make sounds like my guinea pigs weeking sounds. The weather is finally nice here in Florida so we've had the windows open and my 6 guinea pigs week all day long and now my girls started making the same sounds this evening when they went to roost. Is this normal? I know...
Out of my 4 other girls of other breeds she is the oldest (4mths) but hardly has a comb or wattels. Is this normal for the orphan breed? (I know the spelling of her breed is wrong but autocorrect is being a pain.) my barred rock who is a month younger has more than her.
Wasn't sure where to post this but a category 4 hurricane is an emergency.
I happen to live just a short 30min drive from the happiest place on earth and yet it's anything but happy right now. We haven't hit the run for it stage here in Orlando and rarely do but we are going to get walloped. So...
I have a buff who is always starting something with someone, jumping on someone while sleeping, kicking dirt, knocking off perches. She's been this way since we got her, now she's pulling out others tail or butt feathers. She's gotten beat up more times than I can count, is she just a sucker for...
We had purchased instant grits on bogo sale and I opened one package this morning while making breakfast and it seems it came with weevils. If I make them with tap water and not hot water is it ok to give to my pulletts? The love scratch and oatmeal so I figured why waste the entire big bag. For...
I took in a 6wk old hen pecked lil girl who is so skinny it's amazing she's still alive, we have 4wk olds that weight more. She loves to eat anything you put in front of her, we are trying mealworms from the hand to gain her trust but we end up having to toss them to her. She's doing so much...
Overnight we lost 2 due to a rat. Now the other 2 are severely stressed out about going back in the coop. I found how it got in cause it couldn't get back out and after exacting my revenge on it I fixed the problem. Now my other 2 freak out and are going to end up hurting them selves when I put...
What can I give 4wk old chicks as treats to help them stay cool? We had our last batch in the early spring so they were bigger by the time the nasty heat and humidity of Florida kicked in. We used to give chilled watermelon out of my garden and veggiecicles ( diced veg in big ice cubes) but with...
We unfortunately had to rehome our previous girls but we were able to get the laws changed and now we have chicks again. I was devastated by having to give my girls away but they went to a great home. I now have 4 new girls barred rock, buff orphin, silver laced wynodot and what was supposed to...
I have a little bared rock hen who's about 27 wks old and has been laying for 2wks now. She was an every other day layer but this week she's laying a good egg in the am and in the pm she lays a soft shell egg. She then eats the soft shell, just hers she's not going after anyone else's eggs. Now...
I have a little bared rock hen who's about 27 wks old and has been laying for 2wks now. She was an every other day layer but this week she's laying a good egg in the am and in the pm she lays a soft shell egg. She then eats the soft shell, just hers she's not going after anyone else's eggs. Now...
she/he is 17wks old and has been doing this very loud scream/honk thing that sounds duck/goose like for about 2 weeks now. its starting to make me think she might be a he, its at any time of day and her/him sister and wattles are even close to size or as red.