My 4girls are approaching their first molt. The mother-in-law says they will have an easier time and come out of it faster if they have a roo. A local guy has a 10 week old to rehome, (no roos allowed in his neighborhood). How do I introduce him? Is he too little to be with the big girls? Will...
So Sally is so far so good. She's not laying but other than that seems to be her old self. I dosed her with cephelexin, and started everyOne on drench.
She hasn't been acting sick at all since Sunday she's back to his good old self. Just no eggs until this thing. I guess we're going to have to wait it out at least until I get back from Seattle. Thanks for your advice
She is Rhode island red. I've only been a chicken mom for a little over a month. The girls are about 1 1/2 years old. I don't even know when they should molt. And though she is my favorite hen, I don't see a visit to the vet in her future. Her diarrhea did appear to have egg in it
She is the hen that has trouble making enough shell to cover her super sized eggs. 3 weeks and lots of egg and oyster shells later she was laying a beautiful egg every day. On Friday she was listless, slow , fluffed up and miserable with the diarrhea. Also no eggs for 3 days. I gave her a warm...