California - Northern

Hi castorpony!!!!. Long long time...
I still have hens and one rooster.
Iam trying to make headway with our 12 year old Japanese bantam. She has a whole breast of scabbing. Took her to a chicken Veterinarian he her skin is never going to return normally.
But I Soak her in Iodine and skin antiseptic. Then dry to put on silver sulfadizine.
I have seen other posts about scabbing on hens too. I will ad pictures.

Ups and downs and ups.

Ups: currently getting an average of 7-8 eggs daily from various birds - 11 chicken hens, one duck hen. I'm a victim of my own bad chicken math. Excess eggs are inexpensively sold to friends to offset feed costs.

Downs: Buddy the dog is a confirmed chicken murderer, with 6 kills to his name. The first 5 are on me - I fell asleep early one afternoon, only to find 4 carcasses, one head, and two feet. This isn't the worst of it. A month or so later either a bear, or my cursed feral goat busted through my poultry netting. Result: 9 missing birds, one heavily injured bird (who managed to survive and currently is a good layer). The only loss since was due to a suicidal hen flying into Buddy the Chicken Murderer's pen.

Ups: 4 more golden layer ducklings and two (male/female) Toulouse goslings are spending warm days outside, nights inside. They are so naive, they follow Buddy the Chicken Murderer around like he's a parent. While he surely thinks of them as just super special squeaky toys. NO, he does not get unsupervised visitation with them.

Sidenote - anyone in the Grass Valley/Nevada City area that wants an 8 month old absolutely gorgeous Lavender Orpington rooster - contact me via PM. He needs to go very soon, as I'm two roosters too many, and my hens are taking a bit of a beating.

Hi castorporney, long long time.

Hi! Thanks for the tag. I still have seven hens. My oldest, one of the originals, is eight. The youngest two are going on four. I’m thinking of a few chicks this year, and if I get some, they will be from Alchemist Farm in Sebastopol.

Madhouse Pullet said:

Still a chicken tender here. 5 hens & 2 five week old chicks; are they even considered chicks anymore?!

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I had an NPIP Silkie breeder who called her birds "chicks" 'til they were 6 months old! We call our youngest birds in the flock "chicks" all the time even if they're 2 or 3 years old -- if they are the youngest then they're always "chicks" to us!

@mg15 -- I have seen other posts about scabbing on hens too. I will ad pictures.
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mg, what CAUSED the scabbing? Something new I haven't heard of in chickens?

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How's everyone doing? What's new? Do you all still have poultry? This year is my first year hatching turkey eggs and I am pretty excited.

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Yep, I still have chickens. I used to have only Buff Orpingtons but now my flock of 5 is 2 ameraucana (probably easter eggers), Plymouth rock, black australorp and welsummer. More colorful eggs and easier to see who is having issues based on egg laying habits.
I don't have quails anymore but I might hatch some in the future once we get a power outlet set up for outside. I'm not brooding chicks indoors anymore, too smelly!

Sylvester017 said:

I had an NPIP Silkie breeder who called her birds "chicks" 'til they were 6 months old! We call our youngest birds in the flock "chicks" all the time even if they're 2 or 3 years old -- if they are the youngest then they're always "chicks" to us!

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Lol just like calling the baby of family.

Hi there! I just had new chicks in the brooder for a week when I had to get emergency surgery for an infected gallbladder, then complications… Just got back home yesterday. My family is learning all about taking care of my critters (sheep, chickens, chicks) while I lay in bed and direct… to top it off, sheep stall needs mucking out very soon… Frankly I‘d much rather be doing all that myself than being sick .