Recent content by Spiritwalker76

Thanks for all of the positive feedback! We learned that the chair needs a strap/seatbelt across the front as he sometimes tumbles out on his face, poor guy! I will be adding that tonight. Purpletree23: we took the no crow collar off the day or two after he started acting funny. It didn't seem...

Hope you can see the photo. This is Nugget in his wheelchair. About a week and a half ago he started losing his balance and now can't walk at all. Not sure if he has Merrick's disease or if it was nerve damage from thrashing around after we put a No Crow collar on him. Not sure how long we have...

Took the collar off and he seemed somewhat more stable, however in the coop tonight he was having a lot of trouble getting up to the roost and was unstable while roosting.

Thank you! The chicks were supposedly vaccinated for Mareks, so I hope it's not that! I will certainly read the article though and get him started on the poultry vitamins ASAP. We will remove the collar if he is still acting weird tonight when we get home from work. Thank you so much for your reply!

Hello BYC community, I live in a city where roosters are illegal. Unfortunately, one of our four chicks ended up a roo. He is a speckled Sussex just under 4 months old. We fell in love with him and are trying to be able to keep him. We got a no crow collar and put it on him 2 days ago. He...

Thank you for your reply. They are under a red heat lamp with no other light source at night. I have actually been hearing them less at night and I wonder if that means maybe they are sleeping at night for longer periods of time.

Hi BYC community! I just got my first tiny flock of four day old chicks. They are housed in our living room as we have no suitable extra rooms or garage/shed space. I know that chickens sleep all night and I guess I assumed chicks would too, but it seems they wake up several times a night. I...

Just got my first flock 2 days ago. I am already in love! 2 buff orpingtons and 2 speckled Sussex. Can't wait to watch them grow!