Thank You! I need to get some Black Oil Sunflower seeds, I have had chickens before and they loved those seeds! They are only 4 weeks old and I just started giving them grit because they have grass now. I did give them some of the electrolytes and have some of it frozen in water for todays heat...
Help! We put the Cornish Cross out in their outside coop today, It is 84 degrees and they are all panting with their mouths openl
They have fresh water, shaded pen and coop with windows and a fan blowing,
Thank you for the tip, I will be moving the waterers and feeder further apart when I clean in the morning. I have been pulling their food at night for two days now. In the morning there is a feeding frenzy, poor little things are starving! I think they are growing pretty fast. I got them 10 days...
I took a picture from the back and a short video after trying the hip reset instructions from Eggcessive's post (thank you!) but it didn't seem to help.I am trying to send the video of her erratic movements, which is too large so can't send. It is hard to get her to stand, so this last pic is...
I will try to get pictures from the back and post them. I don't know if she was injured, the girls were with them a while that day, so it is possible one was hurt while I was not there. I plan on treating the crooked toes, I have the tape, but I wanted to treat the hip, wing or tendon problem...
Hi! My chick is now 7 days old and two days ago I noticed she was flopping and floundering.
Her hips are sticking out to the side and one leg has curled toes. I did not notice anything
wrong with any of them (except pasty butt) till now. I have been searching the internet
and I cannot find...
I got 12 Cornish Cross chicks yesterday and one has splayed legs so she didn't move much. I used the athletic tape and wrapped it around her legs with about an inch in between them. I didn't know if she would make it through the night because she seemed pretty stressed. She did make it but what...
Hi! We are getting ready to raise a small batch (maybe 6 or 8) Plymouth Rock chickens. I researched to find some cold hardy for our northern Minnesota winters and they are described as 'very cold hardy'. I have found so many ideas already on Backyard Chickens, so I thought it would be a good...