Recent content by gabrielle harri

oh she laid an egg this am but not sure if I should eat it??

thanks you I have de wormed her and rubbed her with a bit of daitramatrous? Powered and cuddles. I'm in NZ do you know what product I can get for the coccidious? I can use some of this. I will upload some pics she's happy in the cage now...lots of chicken love

HI thank you! yes I think you are right I just replied to the other post. She is being well loved now and we are going to call her lucky. I believe in a weird way she came to me so now she's the luckiest girl in the world. I'll post an update. But question do you think ex battery will be...

thank you for your lovely help. I think you may be on target with the feather picking. I posted this online and a woman from a bird rescue tells me she is exactly like the 3000 chickens they are re homing from a farm. Yes the chickens pick each other ( eewwwhh poor things). And yes high protein...

hello this wee girl was brought to me today I put her in the coop but under advice now have her in a cage, She was very hungry and thirsty and ate a lot and seems perky but her skin is very hot and red and as you can see from the photos she has lost lots of feathers. She was wandering around the...

I think this might be my first chicken success story. She is back up with the girls and got onto the roost tonight so I consider that a victory. thank you so much for your help I think everything is going to be okay. So if you chicken get's attacked by a dog here is all the advice from various...

Hi I think she is improving but still gets tired. I'll keep you up to date. I think you are right about putting the sugar and pinch of salt in the water it causing a diuretic effect. I read so many blogs to do this as it was to keep the electrolytes up. But I'm sure that was keeping her with the...

Hi Thank you for taking the time to respond it's most heartening after being told to give up. I live near Wellington in new Zealand. there is a lack of avarian vets so I just try to work things out myself. I read lots of blogs about giving chickens a type of electrolyte mix but I have ceased...

hello we had a terrible time when a dog came into our compound and killed one chicken and grabbed another one and took her feathers out. She went in to shock and we brought her inside and gave her rescue remedy etc. Two weeks on she has developed a very watery explosive diarrhoea. I looked at...

I just posted a thread on my success story about my chicken using hypercim and Rhus Tox. I want to load a video but don't how how If you know tell me and I'll put that out there also

Hello I just wanted to share a success story. My wee girl a speckled bantam was around 10 weeks old when her legs suddenly collapsed under her. One leg shot out to the front and one to the side and she could really only lie on her belly and sometimes get up. we isolated her but she was still...