I put a band-aid on her legs last night & she was sleeping with her legs out to the side which I couldn't get a picture of because as soon as I got close they all started chirping & woke her up!
Today when I came home the band-aid was off so I have put another one on but, she still seems very...
OK, so I am a bit of a duffer. I didn't think to do an EcoSearch on it & I saw YouTube videos on putting bandaid/plasters around the chickens legs. I had read it here but, wasn't sure exactly where I was to put it.
What I worry about now is that when she (I hope) lays down the whole...
Hello everyone,
I've read through a few posts but, I'd like some confirmation here. I have 4 barely a week old chicks & 1 of them has one of it's legs out to the side most of the time (more so than any of the others) but, I've noticed as the others have grown stronger it seems to get weaker...
Hey! How have you gone?
I've done my gir's legs a few times but the 2 I am really concerned about still seem very scaly. They are getting a new coop soon so I am hoping that will help. I've looked around under their feathers & don't see any sort of mites but, they have bad scaly legs.... so I...
I usually wait until I've had some sort of "inspiration" or something just sounds right for that particular hen. We currently have
Snow White (adopted with that name) who is a leghorn cross I think
Pinkie (also adopted w/name already) who seems to be an Isa cross
Freckles - he only made it to...
Hello everyone,
I brought my 4 chicks home that were incubated,oddly by someone I never met nor ever heard his voice, a bit weird but, it worked I suppose. I now have NO IDEA what type of chicks I have as I had the eggs marked & well.... now they don't have that lol.
Anyway, I have 2 little...
Well, I am still new but, I think it's worse than chicken math but, become animal math!
I live in what we call in Australia "public housing" but, since we had approval to make a community garden several of the residents asked me to approach housing & ask if we could have chickens. We got the...