Recent content by cwildeky

Oops, sorry -- I missed your post about her not making it. My sympathies. :-( I now check the coop every night with a flashlight before I close it up. In fact, you'd think I'd have learned after the time I found a possum UNDER THE STRAW in one of the nesting boxes; he was hanging out there...

Quote: Great advise JJ, I don't know what the rasping and gurgling sounds could be either. Sounds like you need to find a avian vet. (Warning ... parts of this are gross. Delicate sensibilities should probably stop here.) Ditto. I had one invade my coop last summer -- evidently he climbed...

Alas, I think I'm going to have to cull my poor BuckBeak. She's a 2-year-old Americauna whose beak has gotten progressively more scissored since chickhood, ... I guess it's officially gotten too bad for her to eat now; she's been puny since Sunday. Last night I actually tried feeding her with a...

I can; I have the coop and run just inside the front pasture. And when they're out to graze and the darned hens mount an assault on the back porch, I see them all too well!

Thanks for the post about the scissor beak, and I'm sorry; it sounds like your poor chick had a lot against him. I've been curious about scissor beak as I have two Auracana hens with the same problem. Both from the same hatchery, both brown/golden-laced ... all the other Auracanas from the...