I had a magpie fly into my run through the open man door then through the little chicken door into the coop and steal a baby chick (about 8 weeks old)from its mom.
My broody hen pooped in her nest today and it seriously gave me the dry heaves. It had to be a half pound of the sickest smelling crap on the planet. I hope I never have to smell that again.
I bought croad langshans from this same person in Ohio. Her pictures of pink and purple eggs are not accurate. My eggs are not pink or purple. If you enlarge her pics you will see pink and purple smudged outside of the eggs outline. However with that said these birds are the most beautiful...
My vet put my rooster on oxytetracycline today. Mine came in powder form and was from Agrilabs. It is a 4.78 oz bag and makes 128 gallons for the strongest dose possible. This ends up being just under 4 1/2 teaspoons per gallon. I am putting him on the strongest dose since he has pneumonia. Hope...
My rooster is sneezing and quit crowing. His nose is runny but clear. I've noticed several of my chickens have their eyes closed a lot more. I started treating the whole flock this morning with Sulmet. I don't want to risk losing them. Lucky for me I don't have any layers right now.
I named most of mine after ancestors but the few I didn't are named:
Ozzie and Harriet (breeding pair)
Jujube (jubilee orp)
Thunder and lightning (named by grandson)
Pink, Feathered Pete, Peacock, and Crush (named by granddaughters)
Veen (nephew)
Jellybean (niece)
Baron (she was pooping blood...
I bought three new chickens yesterday. All of them were fine when I brought them home but now one has a lot of bright red blood in its stools. It has never been on dirt and seems to be very healthy otherwise. The stools seem normal consistency otherwise. The first two stools were bright red and...