Recent content by hooverchild

My chickens are on a dirt/small gravel run and their nails still grow real long and they dig and scratch all the time.

Thank you both, so much. I was hoping that if I let it run it's course that they would be okay. Would it be wise of me to still give them a Fowl Pox shot incase there is another strain going round or is that a waste of money?

Hello, I am a newbie in the Chicken world. I purchased 13 full grown birds(12 hens, one rooster) from a gal in town who has 400 and was selling off half of her group9she is moving). I didn't know about the avian pox until after I purchased them and I noticed the black bumps on their crowns and...