Yes I have thought about that but also I'm currently in a temp living situation where I'm at at the moment, my thoughts are I would try agian a year or two down the road when life isn't throughing such steep mountains to climb at me .
Hello sorry 😞I have discovered its something way more serious I now have lost most of my flock to I believe to markes disease and still losing them none have had exactly the same symptoms of each other some take longer then others to show any sort of sickness and some I have just found dead...
I'm only saying it's a male because the other two have nice rounded heads and fluffy bunny tails lol oh and absolutely no wattles, here's a pic of one I'm assuming pullet they both look alike unlike the scragglyheaded "boys" lol
I know it's way to soon and silkies are natroriusly hard to sex but I have to ask do you think this one may be leaning toward cockerel?
They are all 7 weeks (8 weeks tuesday) but this one has mighty big wattles compared to the other 3 .
Today I had to make a tough decision about my sick pullet Hazel she started out acting like she needed to lay on the 16th after not laying for over a month (broke broodiness) she would get in and out of the nesting boxes seaming like she was trying to lay which was not productive, the next few...
Unfortunately Hazel is now refusing to even try to eat or drink anything, she's not pooping either but that to be expected since she is not eating...she can no longer walk at all, she does have function of her legs she just doesn't have any balance to stay up right ,two days ago she was able to...
Would that be a treatable condition?
Also the one pullet is now lame she can't really get up when she does she stumbles and falls would that also be caused by this ? She doesn't have any eye swelling
Alright so it started out with my pullet Hazel seaming like she needed to lay after being broken of broodiness she hasn't laid in over a month .
Slowly the past week she has gotten worse she is now at the point where she can't walk , I have given her warm bathes ,felt inside and out on her no...
Ok im starting think she maybe egg bound she has now started vent pulsating and Stumbling I'm soaking her bottom in warm bathes hoping it will help her