This morning her crop was much smaller and the little that was left still felt gritty. I gave her wet food and she went right to it. Her Butt is still nasty. I don't know how to help her...
I really do appreciate your help, thank you
She's 3 1/2 years old. She has been laying eggs but not this week, that I can tell. Her eggs are always huge. I do think your correct that it's Cecal Poop but why would it suddenly start sticking? I tried and failed to get a good picture. When her cecal poop sticks, then I think the other...
I believe one of my chickens is sick. She has a very poopy butt and I'm having to rinse it off. It smells worse than regular chicken poop. I trimmed her fluff but that didn't help. I've checked her closely and there isn't any signs of pest hanging around. She is going in the nest box at night...
I feel your pain with the heat, I'm in South Central Texas and have the same temps. Can you or do you have electricity in your coop? My fan is inside the coop but is pointed out the window. It pulls the hot air out of the coop. In the beginning, I wasn't comfortable leaving the door open...
I live in Central Texas, I just add ice to my waterers and top of as needed. Adding shade cloth to block out any sun will help with both algae and water temps.
One of my waterers is an igloo water cooler with nipples. It's hands down the best one for me. Because it is totally enclosed there is never any algae, dirt and super easy to clean. Also, it's easy to put ice packs in it during the summer (I'm in Texas) At first, the nipple area would get...
My hen also had one between her toes. Today, I soaked it in Epsom salt for 10 minutes. At first, I couldn't find the scab but finally found it on the bottom of her foot after lifting up the fleshy part of her pad. I sprayed it with Vetericyn several times and used tweezers and was able to...
We have too many predators for free range, at least this would be something to expand their world. You did so much work on this, thank you for posting it.