Recent content by MariaChickenMama

  1. M

    What is a normal weight for a hen?

    I have a Henn and she is so light. When I pick her up, she is so thin. I’m just she’s been isolated because she hurt her leg. This is probably the third time she hurt her leg. I let her out and then somehow she got into a squabble with some other chickens and hurt her leg again and I don’t know...
  2. M

    Best bedding for isolation

    Well I do have a dog kennel that has no floor. I’ll put her in the run when I can but I’m not making her stay out there at night by herself.
  3. M

    Best bedding for isolation

    She hurt her keg numerous times after confronting a hen. When I say fragile she is so small. She is a brown leghorn. I let her eat as much as possible but can’t seem to fatten her up. She is one of my favorites so I’m not getting rid of her. I just need to figure how to fatten her up.
  4. M

    Best bedding for isolation

    We have one chicken isolated because she’s fragile and has a leg issue. I’m just curious during these hot months what is the best kind of bedding to use in the isolation crate which is a dog crate. I’ve been using pine bedding, but it feels like I have to clean it daily because it gets dirty...
  5. M

    Comb color

    I was wondering if that was it. I wish I could get her to sit quietly but not sure possible with all the noise anyways. She also has been breathing heavy at night but tonight it didn’t appear as bad other nights. But her comb still looks awful. But she is a fighter.
  6. M

    Comb color

    My hen has a respiratory infection and I’ve been treating it with Tigard. This is like day three. I also put vet RX on her comb or wattles her beak and underneath her wings at least two times a day.. every morning when she wakes up, her comb looks great but then by bedtime it’s starting to get...
  7. M

    Stressed chicken?

    Someone had once suggested Tiagard for respiratory and I actually have that coming from Amazon and being delivered today. Should they go ahead and start putting that in her water? What do you think about the rest of the chickens who appeared to have no symptoms from what I can tell?
  8. M

    Stressed chicken?

    Well, when she was in the shed area, I was opening the door to the shed and that was getting outside air. We don’t free range our chickens we have a covered run. But I’m not letting her out there with all the other chickens because when there’s something new, even though she’s not new, they seem...
  9. M

    Stressed chicken?

    Do you think is still worry about worming the flock and I still not 100% sure she doesn’t have some kind of respiratory issue.
  10. M

    Stressed chicken?

    The only way to increase ventilation in the shed area where I was keeping her would to be to add a window. I actually put her in the chaotic coop tonight. She wasn’t breathing as heavy as last night, but she was opening her mouth a little bit. She might have been stressed with all the noise of...
  11. M

    Stressed chicken?

    That bigger structure of a crate was in the shed, which doesn’t have any windows. It has a little bit of ventilation on the top, but not a lot. I had other chickens in here and they didn’t seem to have any issues. they were in the shed in the winter time and I never open the doors because of the...
  12. M

    Stressed chicken?

    I think she’s a little bit happier, but I don’t know about the other chickens and the run with her. They were really crabby.
  13. M

    Stressed chicken?

    During lunch, I’m planning on putting this chicken outside in the run in her crate. And I will put her in the coop tonight with everyone else, but in her crate, of course because she’s not been in there a while. I just witnessed her trying to jump up onto this little bar I had in the big crate...
  14. M

    Stressed chicken?

    I have never wormed the flock. No one else seems to have any issues. She has not been laying recently. And maybe that was due to stress and it being winter because I had one chicken that was isolated in the shed didn’t for like two weeks straight and then when I put her in with the rest of the...
  15. M

    Stressed chicken?

    the only ventilation in there during the day when I open doors. I had 4 other chickens in there and they didn’t have any problems. Maybe I’ll put her and the other chicken in there in the coop at night! I use pine bedding. I think the shed area is about 16x 10. I’ve been feeding her the chic...
See more
Back
Top Bottom