Recent content by MIghtyClucks

Hello :) It sounds like the ladies are acting normal. Are you sure those are not just peck marks? :) The girls will peck (especially the comb area) to establish dominance and pecking order. If it's frostbite, I would use a think layer of a salve called Waxelene on their combs.It helps heal...

Shoot. Yeah, that's almost a two hour ride. Even if I could bring the girls to her, that's quite a long journey for them!

Hi BekahsChicks, We are located in the Akron area!

Hello! We have 20 hens who will be 3 years old in April. They are part of a non-profit vocational program for adults with developmental disabilities. One of the individual's jobs is to care for the hens by collecting eggs, cleaning the coop, feeding, giving the girls water, etc. Most of the...

Hello kdvail, Any improvement?

Hi, I'm so sorry to hear about your hen. How is she? Has she made any recovery?

Here are a couple of links for treatments for bumblefoot...in case you haven't already found a cure! http://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2012/03/bumblefoot.html http://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2014/11/treating-bumblefoot-in-chickens-and.html

Hello, Have you tried giving her epsom salt baths? I'm not sure that I have ever come across an enlarged abdomen like that...

Props to you for taking those poor hens in...they are truly lucky that you had a heart to nurture them back to health. Some people...ugh. It sounds like all of the suggestions so far are great! I don't know that I would use any VetRx. The only other thing I would suggest is putting NutriDrench...

Hi All, I have some concern over a few eggs we have been gathering lately. I have been coming across, what appears to be, super calcified eggs but today I gathered one that is very oddly shaped/deformed. Should I be concerned about this? From what I have researched a lot of sites give...

Hello, I noticed that this was posted a week ago. How is her eye? From the picture, it looks like she was pecked a few times and that it may be injured from that...

Poor guy :( Are you able to isolate him in a dog crate in your house to give him a little TLC? What medications have you tried? It sounds like some sort of upper respiratory infection, but I'm not super expert. Have you tried using VetRX? It's pretty great! Here's a link to Fresh Eggs Daily...

I hope all is well and that you have been able to help the little chicks, but... They really need to be in a draft-free area. Their tiny systems are too sensitive to handle drafts and chills. When a couple of mine had "pasty-butts" I filled a small tupperware container with lukewarm water...

Poor thing :( Another idea may be to soak her feet in warm water with epsom salts. If she's inside and separated now, you can give her a warm epsom salt bath and dry her with a hairdryer after- it sounds silly, but they actually like it. The epsom salt baths may help draw out infection and make...

One of my girls was hobbling around when we noticed that she had a little black circle on the bottom of her pad. It was infected to the point that her toe/foot started to swell and the scales were a bit nasty and falling off. We had her separated to keep her protected from the outdoors (it was...