Recent content by SheenaBee

One of mine 2.5 week old Welsh Harlequins makes the EXACT same noise as in the video. Primarily the noise when it’s sleeping but have heard it other times as well. Nothing else that would make me question health. Was initially rather concerned, but now I’m pretty sure it’s just odd snoring or a...

Thanks all. So appreciative that this forum exists, always awesome to have a second opinion. I haven’t really had a good feel of it yet, but when hubby gets home I will - she’s a little squirrelly to hold right now since she’s brooding a few little Silkie and Serama babies.

I have one hen that has an odd ‘growth’ on her face. It’s been there since last fall but is slowly increasing in size. It looks like some of the pics I’ve seen of fowl pox, but it’s only 1 lesion and has had such slow growth that I don’t think that it could be. No other symptoms and the lesion...

White, grey, blue, black, black satin & partridge Silkie chicks available 16 (Hatched Dec 25, 2018) 16 (Hatched mid January 2019) 8 (Hatched Early Feb 2019) & 2 free roosters *deep south-west Alberta.

Thanks! They’re giant personalities in tiny packages, lol. So far, ours have been house pets as well... though they have had supervised excursions outside for a few hours at a time with the main flock when the weather happens to be really warm, sunny and calm (for winter anyway, above zero at...

Your idea might be worth a try! Doing it gradually hadn't even crossed my mind. I think I’ll try that tomorrow. Thanks!

She is roughly 17 weeks. The other hen just laid her first egg a couple days ago. And the little ones comb is starting to redden, so I gather she’s getting close too. Roo mounts both of them. Sorry, don’t have any better side shots at the moment... The other hen and the roo: And the 3 together.

You’re correct, it’s the larger back toe. There isn’t an avian veterinarian within a few hours drive from where I am, they can do some basic things but it’s rather limited to what they would have dealt with for large local egg producers - infectious disease etc. but nothing requiring anesthesia...

Good afternoon all, I have no idea how I didn’t notice this little ones toe when she was a little chick. By the time I saw it, she was about 12 weeks, but didn’t seem to be causing any problems or lameness and it was past the point of an easy chick-shoe solution. Fast forward to today, at...

I honestly didn’t know that the amount of ‘frizzle’ could vary. Good to know. Learn something new on here everyday

Thanks to all for the replies. I just wanted to ensure I was on the right track with the frizzled thing and this wasn’t just a case of ruffled feathers and a mystery illness, lol. ♥️

My son recently got a trio of young Seramas for 4H. The feathers on the smallest pullet (same age but half the size of the other hen) always appears ruffled. They don’t obviously curl outward but they certainly don’t lay flat. She doesn’t appear to have any health problems. I raise a large...

Thanks so much everyone for your advice and help. So very appreciative. It’s so nice to be able to ask a group of knowledgeable chicken people when google just doesn’t do the trick. ♥️