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Too many of the chicks we purchased ended up being roosters. We are currently trying to find homes for four of them. They are bantams. They are about 2 1/2 to three months old now. Two are silver seabrights, one is a black rosecomb and one I'm not sure what the other is. They are all supposed...

Hmmm, I don't know. This problem started when the chicks were still in the brooder. It was a brand new brooder that we kept ourselves, and it wasn't kept outdoors at all. Unless the chicks had mites when we purchased them?

Although they may very well be picking at the bad one now, I don't think it started that way. On all of these chicks, those aren't feathers that were plucked out. They are feathers that never grew in when the rest of the feathers did. They have plenty of space, they are in a very large coop...

About a month ago I posted about a bantam chick with a swollen area around the oil gland on his butt. I thought it was getting better for a while, but it looks terrrible now. This is what it looked like when we first noticed it. Even worse, I have three other bantam chicks (about two...

My hubby built this in a few hours using $10 worth of scrap wood we found from the scrap wood bin at Home Depot. We had some small pieces of chicken wire sitting around. He has now also made a couple of roosts for the banties inside the coop.

I don't think it's just where she's been pecked at. It's hard to tell in the photos, but the sore is puffy, not scabby. Somebody mentioned an oil gland... I wonder if could be a clogged oil gland? If nobody has any better ideas, I guess we'll just leave it alone and let nature take its course.

One of our chicks (about five weeks old) is having a problem. The chicks are in that stage where they are losing their down feathers but their big chick feathers haven't all come in yet. One of the chicks has a weird looking sore at the base of its tail. We think it might be an impacted...

Well, to answer the original poster (none other than myself!), it is months later. The Salmon Faverelle turned out to be a beautiful, fiesty hen. The EE turned out to be a roo. As he grew we tried to hold him a lot and everything else we could think of. But alas, he turned out to be a mean...

Okay, I went and took a look at my buff orps (5 1/2 months old). I was wrong. Their combs and wattles are NOT that big and bright at all, and their tails don't stand up like that, either. Sorry - hopes this helps.

Okay, so my cockerel seems to have some kind of respiratory problem (rattling when he breathes). So I got some Terramycin (oxytetracycline HCI) soluble powder. According to the instructions, I need to give a dosage of 400 milligrams in every gallon on water. But I don't have anything that...

My entire big yard is fenced in, but within that I have a smaller fenced area for the dogs. That's the only place they are allowed. This keeps them away from the chickens and the garden, and keeps the dog poop out of the children's play area. We have only had an issue one time, when one of the...

I have two buff orp pullets (females) and their combs and wattles look identical to this one's. Not sure about the tail, though. I don't remember and I don't have time to run out to the coop and look right now! I look later if it will help.

Have you contacted your county animal control to see if they can help with bating some traps? I called the county health department, who said there was nothing they could do. Then I called the city, who said all they could do was send the neighbors a letter telling them to clean up their yard...

I went to Tractor Supply and bought Terramycin soluble powder and also Advance Pro-Lyte Plus nutritional/energy supplement. I am trying to find something to isolate my cockerel in and will begin the antibiotics this evening. I'll give the vitamin/electrolytes to the others, too, to boost their...

These are most certainly rats, not mice. We're talking a foot long (not including the tail). So I guess feeding once a day is not a good idea. Can I take the food up when they roost and put it back in the morning? The rats mostly come out at night. If it's okay to do that with the food, would...

No, that hasn't really been a concern. The rats have been around since we first got chickens a year and a half ago, and we've never lost a chicken to them. I wasn't aware they even eat full-grown chickens? Of course, some of ours are pullets, but they're a pretty good size now. We've done...

We are having a problem with rats getting in the coop and eating our chickens' grain crumbles. Our chickens currently free-feed. So we would like to go just feeding once a day, and only what the hens will eat at one time so we aren't paying to feed the rats. They are not free range, but we...

We noticed today that my roughly five-month old cockerel isn't breathing well. It gets extremely hot and humid where we live, so all the chickens pant all the time. So it might have taken us longer to notice than usual. His panting didn't alarm us. What did alarm us is a gurgle sound when he...

If you only plan on having four hens, you should only need one nesting box.

It's all in who interprets it. I called our city's code enforcement officer before we ever bought chickens a year ago. He said the city ordinance refered to "no livestock" but that he didn't consider chickens to be livestock (he said he considered them to simply be birds). Six months ago we...