Recent content by musicteacher456

My niece was playing with her baby chicks this morning and she put one under a cup and then noticed that two of the toes were bleeding. The chicks were separated immediately and after examining them, I'm pretty sure only one toe was bleeding and it looks as if a clot was developing, but, I put...

Can my 4+ pound yorkipoo get sick from sharing food with my sick BO? I am not sure what her illness was, but my husband culled her tonight. She was very near death. I had tried to get her to eat a small amount of scrambled egg by placing her beak in the food. She didn't really eat any, but...

So.... we got our first two hens about two weeks ago. Both were about 16 weeks old. They were doing fine and adjusting their new home nicely. The Black Australorp had established herself as the alpha. She would peck at and, what seemed like, corral the Buff Orpington around the run and coop. The...

So I'm a new chicken owner. I've had 2 girls, both 4 months old for about 1 and a half weeks. They both were doing fine until we left town for 2 days. I had a neighbor lock them in the coop at night, let open it up in the morning, and make sure they had food and water. When we returned our Buff...