Recent content by Chez Poulette

Thank you for your response. I will do that.

We are in Massachusetts and it can get into the single digits or below. In our main coop, the droppings tray under the roosting bar has PDZ, but the droppings tray of this coop is all the droppings tray. The coop was purchased from Tractor supply as we had only the weekend to take the new birds...

We have a flock of 8 regular chickens that we have had for 3 years, this year we rescued 2 bantams that needed a home only to discover one was a rooster. He was too much for neighbors living near the coop so we moved the 2 bantams into a smaller coop and run on the other side of the property. I...

Thanks so much for your advice. I am not sure how old the new girls are , the previous owner thought about one year. They are not laying yet and their combs are just coming in. I am also worried about how the little rooster will make out. I plan on opening up a space between the runs for them to...

Update: she passed this afternoon. I would like to learn from this and figure out what we did wrong. Her comb began to droop on Tuesday and she died Friday morning.

Update- this morning she is not standing up. She keeps shaking her head and closing her eyes. I put some scratch mix with mealworms mixed with the monistat. She shows no interest. Should I try to put the monistat in her mouth with a syringe?

Also, she had access to water with apple cider vinegar mixed in. I did not know to take it out. Should she stay isolated?

Yes it was very smelly. What should I treat the sour crop with. I have read so many different things.

I need some help. We noticed that one of our 2 year old hens crown was flopped over and she was lethargic. After some research we thought it could be a problem with her crop. It was distended but not hard. My husband flushed it with some water and epsom salt, but she was not isolated. This...

I am not sure how old they are, they are not laying yet. We do have ample room in the main coop but I just ordered a 7x 9 foot coop that I will trick out with an elevated platform across the back with a PDZ tray and an isolation area below. The rousing bar will be above the tray. We need a...

Thanks so much for the advice. The coop in the video is a tiny one we bought in a half hour because we had to pick up the birds with little notice. The main coop is 3 times bigger than the numbers they give you and the run is 4 or 5 times bigger than needed. W also heard to put them in at night...

I need some advice on introducing 2 flocks. We have 5 hens that are 2 years old. We recently rescued what we thought was going to be 6 pullets that needed to be removed from a horse barn. When we arrived there were 6 approx 1 year old hens and 2 smaller birds that the owner thought were about 2...

I agree with many posts here. It doesn’t really matter what is getting them. You need to make the run safe. We used 1/4 inch hardware cloth on top and sides of run and dug down 3 feet and out 2 feet. The only thing gettin in there would be a bear and we don’t have bear in our area. It’s hard to...

Is it just pecking order? Why after a year? Or is something else wrong?

I don’t have a place to put her out of sight. I used a dog fence to section her off from the others, she has feed and water and I put a 5 gallon bucket on it’s side with a nesting pad for her to lay in. my plan was to use a cat carrier in the coop at night so she doesn’t have to stay out in the...