Recent content by Silkiechicken66

It definitely makes things difficult. But we’ll work around it. I do use straw and hay in nesting boxes. From my experience, chopped straw doesn’t matt up nearly as much and is softer. But the chickens loved dust bathing in it, so it was everywhere.

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll keep that in mind!

We are going to get sand and use the gravel elsewhere. And a side note, it’s not a traditional coop. It’s a metal shed we repurposed into a shelter for all the birds. So weight isn’t an issue, cleanliness and the birds health is.

We could return it, but we thought up some ideas we could use it for besides the coop.

We are going to use it to fill in muddy parts of the yard. We decided to switch because our local store stopped selling the shavings we use and several people in my family are allergic to different kinds of wood. We could only use this one brand. We already switched one coop, and they did great.

So we are switching our bedding in the coop from shavings to sand. My mother ordered the sand, but she accidentally ordered multi-purpose gravel. Instead of taking back the $100+ worth of gravel, would it be safe to use as a bedding? Or is it too coarse/big.

The skin finally fell off today!

I’m using Vetericyn and Neosporin. I’m doing it two-three times a day. This was after I cleaned it and before I applied more medicine.

Just an update. Still waiting for that flap of dead skin to fall off, but otherwise doing great.

Eating and drinking great. Definitely on the mend!

The chick is very active today and the wound doesn’t look as swollen or red. I sadly don’t think the skin flap is salvageable, as it scabbed up and I can’t get it to move over the wound anymore. I’m still applying medicine under it though.

Alright thank you! I have it inside under a heat lamp and am keeping the wound clean. The chick acts perfectly fine and is extremely active, and the skull itself looks okay. Just the skin. I’ve been spraying with vetericyn and using Neosporin(no pain killer).

I was at work all day yesterday and today so I’m not entirely sure.

I have also separated the hens and given each of them a few chicks to help prevent any more injuries.

Recently my seramas started hatching out a bunch of chicks, but all the hens decided they should be the mothers. So occasionally there may be a little scuffle every now and then, but nothing more than a few pecks. I noticed one of the newest chicks(1-2 days old) was scalped. I think it got in...