Recent content by mellephone

Situation: 10 month old chickens (Easter Egger, Austrolorp, Orpington), eating and drinking and energetic. Some of them have diarrhea and some have white poop painted around their vents. They have tiny white spots on their combs, a few have one or two tiny black/brown spots. Four of them appear...

My 10 month old Easter Egger Lily unexpectedly passed away yesterday. Cliff Notes: A few weeks ago I noticed someone was having watery, almost florescent green poops, and they appeared to potentially have tiny worms in them. I also noticed that someone was dropping soft shell eggs from the...

I don't think there was any chunks of muscle missing and it seemed like there was something over the muscle underneath. I saw some pictures in other threads with obvious muscle showing and it didn't look like that. After I cleaned them up I wasn't left with bright red tissue, more like fatty...

They did good. I did spray Marlene with the bluekote and put her out with her sisters and watched for four hours. I wanted to get her away from Beth, who wanted to peck at her wound. She did fine and the flock treated her like normal. I put her back in with Beth at bedtime and slathered her with...

48 hours and they are still eating and drinking and this morning there was a substantial amount of poop in the coop so that alleviates that concern. Plus, their vents don't seem as swollen today. Marlene's comb is a little paler (more pink) today but much paler than some of my other girls. Both...

My chickens were attacked by dogs yesterday; two of them rather badly. The dogs pulled the feathers off their rear ends and it took the skin with it, you can see muscle and fat underneath. I didn't see any obvious puncture wounds. I soaked the wounds in an epsom salt bath. It has been 36 hours...