We use Peck-No-More lotion. Been using it for years on different flocks weve owned from Texas to Colorado. Works very very good and instant. I just used it on a red star chick on her tail/butt area. The other chicks are pecking her tail area all over so I just applied it and the whole flock saw...
If our red or black star chicks see a broken egg they'll go after it. Chickens love the sight of a broken egg. Notice how chicks ignore eggs they lay in the coup but when you move them they want to attack them and peck at em! As for the missing shells, we've seen our chicks lay eggs without...
aart above ^ was spot on with this. introducing the chick in her own small space by the wall of the other coup works well. Weve done this successfully and weve tried other failed methods to introduce chicks. This is very similar to introducing sugar gliders by swapping their pouches to get used...
The lump was white in color. Picture a large marble under the chickens neck skin. The white skin stretched over it making feathers push out around it. It looks like this photo here in another post but way more pronounced and bigger, rounder. Very noticeable unlike this photo which is hard to...
UPDATE: So we had a black star female, not even 6 months old yet, that had a bulge in its neck. A feather was trying to poke out so we took an exacto knife, cut the skin and pulled out a slimy feather about 1 1/2 inches long but the bulge was still there. So we took the hen to Total Care Mobile...
we ended up cutting the follicle and I pulled out a black small feather that was about a inch or more long. However there is still a large big marble sixed lump. is there more feather under that bump?
I'm having a really hard time finding any chicken vet anywhere in my area in Colorado Springs...
my chicken has this too. its like a larger marble sized cyst looking thing with a point of a trapped feather under it trying to poke out. do we just cut into it and pull the feather out? is there any fluid to be expected?