Recent content by scatchandmax

Has anyone transported their flock to a different state? We're moving 900 miles away, about a 13 hour drive. I know it's more practical to rehome our 5 hens here and start fresh at our new home, but I wanted to at least look into transporting them in case it's not prohibitively expensive. Has...

I noticed this hen was standing like a flamingo, and the one foot she was holding up was curled up under her belly feathers. When I inspected that foot, I found this. Looks like a new nail is coming in but the old one is still attached. But where the two nails meet, there is some blood. I...

Hello, wondering if anyone knows of local New Mexico companies that make larger chicken coops and runs? We built our first coop ourselves but don't know we can find the time to do that again.

Hmmm...not sure? This whole ailment has been super mysterious.

I posted a week ago because my BO hen suddenly had spreading black marks on her comb and wattles and crazy swelling, including on her ankles and feet. I still have no clue what caused it, but happy to report that with antibiotics and supportive care, the swelling is going down and she’s acting...

I was just thinking to myself, this seems like an allergic reaction or something! Thank you for validating this. She acts totally unbothered. Normal energy and appetite. And I hadn't noticed that cut before, but you're totally right. She is at the bottom of the pecking order. Good to know...

Here’s the best I got. Thanks for your help.

I don’t think it’s from injury or pecking. She’s had spots from that before and it was much smaller and scab like. However, she did get knocked in the head by a kid on a swing a few weeks ago...?

also note the blue mark on her comb. Her feet are also bumpy and irregular looking, swollen too. I searched for these symptoms and it looks like it might be Avian flu, but I keep reading that the highly pathogenic version of that is very rare, and I only have five hens who never interact with...

We had the same issue when we introduced a singleton into our small flock. It was weeks, longer than I had heard, and even now months later she still gets pecked occasionally by the big girls. She seems to know her place in the pecking order, but she aggressively tries to cuddle with our Buff...

I have a small flock, three hens. One EE who is just about to start laying and is the youngest. Our yard is fully fenced in, but I think this afternoon the gate was slightly ajar for a short amount of time because I went out and the EE was gone. We searched all afternoon around the neighborhood...

I was literally about to post the same question! My black sexlink who had been a great layer of jumbo eggs has been laying these shell-less eggs for a week. They are also under the roost in the morning when I let them out. And then a few hours later, she sits in the nesting box for a while with...

Thanks for the reply Eggcessive. Those pix look like what I'm dealing with, she just has less spots. Maybe 2-3 on each side of the comb and 1 on the wattles. So my question is, is it too late to think about vaccinating the other two? Are they too old? And now that the BO's spots have...