Recent content by Kukelekuu

Thank you both so much for your recommendations! It was very helpful. Last night when I checked on her, the fluid build up in her crop had disappeared. I think the partial impaction that caused the sour crop shifted enough for the fluid to pass. With the fluids gone, I could feel a large...

Hi Backyard Chickens Folks, Thank you in advance for your help! I've been struggling with a hen with an impacted crop that turned sour for several days now. I'm absolutely desperate because I haven't been able to feed her for 36 hours, and she hasn't absorbed any real amounts of liquid in the...

The bottom picture looks like an ISA Brown, which is a standard production breed. Pretty darn cute little chickies!

I had the same once with a black orpington... strange feathered legs! Mine turned out to be a cochin cross. I'm not sure why this keeps happening to people with orpingtons, but yours does look like a healthy silkie cross. Silkies are lovely birds. I hope you have fun with her!

I'm so glad to hear she recovered. Good job for taking such good care of her! I hope you are blessed with her presence for many years to come. :)

Anymore news? Hope all is well!

Oh, and the skin on her back end has turned a bright, sunburn red. I noticed this in some of my other young hens too. Should I be worried?

Something similar happened to me last fall with my hen Philo. She had a head wound down to the skull. My suggestion (from painful experience) would be to not cover the wound in any bandage or cream. With Philo, I covered the wound in antibiotic cream given to me by the vet and the next day she...

Hello BYC, I'm worried about the chickens in my flock. I have a multi-age flock of mostly heritage breed chickens. Nothing ailed them all winter until the week we lost two chickens - one to an attack and one to flystrike due to the diarrhea on her feathers. That chicken was always one of my...

Hello, At my school, my friend and I are in charge of feeding the chickens belonging to the woman whose property we stay on. She has a lot of chickens and though she cares about them, there is very little hygiene and the place is rife with disease and all sorts of infections, especially scaly...

I apologize for the quality. I couldn't get good enough lighting to do a proper close-up. I'll try for some better ones tomorrow. I noticed that he A LOT of lice, so I will be putting the whole flock through treatment. I'm just a bit nervous about treating him with these lumps, or growths, or...

I made a post earlier today about my rooster, Vivaldi, who was acting oddly. Tonight I decided to give him a check-over and see if all was well with him. What I saw scared me. I lifted the feathers on his butt, and right at the base, near the follicles, were these awful warty-looking pustule...

Okay, so I looked at him and he is definitely not alright. He's got awful, bright red warty pustules around the base of his feathers by his vent area. It looks really scary. I'm going to create a separate thread about it and see if anyone knows what it is?

If he comes into the coop tonight I'll grab him and check him out. It'll give me a chance to trim his spurs as well! It's hard to tell right now if he's healthy or not because he's quite bedraggled with the moult. Do you think this behavioural change could be do to the moult?

My rooster, Vivaldi, is a ripe two and a half years of age. He's a golden laced wyandotte who appears to be going through a moult at the moment. He is the only governor of a flock that consists of eighteen hens, many older than he is. He is very scared of people and dislikes them as a rule, but...