My coop is OVERRUN with mosquitos! I've tried every natural way of getting rid of them but they WILL NOT LEAVE!! What spray or powder or ANYTHING can I use? Everything I'm finding can't be used around pets and I have dogs cats and chickens. I've hung planters with mosquito repellent plants all...
Thank you! I really hope she isn't a X, as you can see from the picture she is already named and ready to be a pet I'm not a capable enough person to process a chicken, I get too attached. I'll try and get more pictures
Any idea what breed this little girl is? I got her from TSC out of the barred rocks bin but just learned barred rocks chicks are dark. Here she is next to my little wyadonette.
UPDATE:
She's doing much better! I don't know what happened, I didn't do anything different but it's a lot less dark! She's not full of fluid, thanks to your guys help I learned how to check for that and she feels just like my other girls. I think she may possibly have worms so I'm going to get...
I'm new to this so I don't know if I did it right but she might be just a tiny bit squishy, nothing like I saw on the YouTube videos I just watched about it. After more than a week wouldn't she be more obviously full of fluid? Another question I have, if she is full of fluid is draining going to...
I have three birds including her. I'm sorry im new to chickens where in the abdomen do I feel around and what for?
She is not pale, she turned purple. I should have stated that she is the one on the left in the first picture. Her comb is usually the color of her sisters (on the right)
I have no way of knowing how old she is,i rescued her and her sister from a bad situation. She is drinking normally and eating the same as well. Her poo was a little runnie but not bad this is her compared to her sister
It started about a week ago, she is free range all day so i don't think its the ammonia in their coop (its cleaned regularly as well) At the moment we are re-doing their grazing area so they are wandering around the whole yard and laying under the house (where i cant get the eggs so i'm not...