Recent content by HappyFeetHens

Thanks! I’m going to have a fecal done ASAP and see if my vet has a recommendation for a wormer if the fecal shows it wasn’t very effective. I’ll also check her again for lice. Thanks again for the help!

Res, I’m honestly not sure what dewormer as my uncle bought it... Parasites might be a possibility. I will deworm again! She is due to be dewormed soon anyway. She does graze. Thanks so much! Cassie, it is definitely possible she’s just not a great doe. I understand that. But she does come from...

One of my Boer does is a yearling (born November 2018) and she’s just so small for her age. She’s a normal height, very long body and nicely built, and at fair, we were told she was built very well, with a nice long body and neck, but simple too small. She has no depth, little width, and I just...

Correct, it’s a smaller, sealed container inside the larger water reservoir. And I suppose if it’s because of the lower freezing point, it helps to exchange heat with the water surrounding it? Not sure how it works but it has for me!

Not sure how many people already know of this, but last winter (and now) we’ve been having great success with preventing ice with a small container of salt water inside our waterers! Depending on the size of the container you might use bigger or smaller. For our hens we use little spice jars...

I use it with my hens (I only have 3 left and it’s quite cold so laying is not reliable) and they seem to be doing well! Two have molted while on it and soon after eggs have been great! They seem very happy with it and actually more feed efficient — they eat significantly less on this than...

Thank you all so much! I can’t wait to keep trying and use some of these tips and I will try to find some horse treats soon! I did buy a martingale collar which I think will help me to catch her and lead her easier than with the halter since they have a huge pen and she just runs! But we got the...

Thanks! Good to know. I figured I would need that relationship to get her back to walking how she was before but works just as well for me. It takes A LOT to get a halter on her... I mean cornering her and having another person keep her there. Any tips on getting her to be more willing and...

Makes me sad that she doesn’t love me like she did before because look at how cute she is! Also gives you a bit of an idea on size/age if that matters. She’s about 6 months old and I would estimate she weighs around 55 lbs? Not for sure, she hasn’t been weighed since we got her. She weighed 45...

This year I’m showing a boer meat breeding doe at my county fair. When we first bought her, she loved me. I has her to wear I could skip a halter on no problem and walk her without any big issues, just training her to stay where she needs to be and such. She was super sweet, was cuddly and...

One of my hens is laying pretty consistently through this crazy bout of weather. Yesterday, I found another egg from her (can tell by the color; she’s a leghorn and my others are RIRs) and then I found two broken egg shells in the other next box. They were completely crushed but not much liquid...

I finally got the door open (accidentally broke the lock :barnie) and I was able to bring her in with some water and feed. She is eating and drinking normally now and has perked up quite a bit just in the 15 minutes since I got her out. But I’m still concerned about her tiny size as well as...

So last night it snowed and the temperatures are very low... the only door not frozen shut for the coop is where I feed and water, which is up high where the nest boxes are. The run doors are frozen shut. Unfortunately, that means I can’t get to her. She wouldn’t come up to the upper part of the...

If you can get any pictures, I may be able to help. I have a hen who hatched with deformed legs (not sure how to describe) but I was able to correct them and she’s fine now. Are the toes curled or legs sort of broken inwards beneath her, toward each other? If so, that was the issue with mine...

I have a 2-3 year old RIR hen who is definitely molting, but she seems to have been losing weight recently. Another hen is molting too, but the one I’m concerned about is considerably smaller. I’m thinking she may have been losing weight prior to the molt, but when you see them every day it’s...