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.