Recent content by Suzannah

Thanks for all of the info and suggestions! We are going to go to the extension office this afternoon and see what we see!! I will post pictures and results as we get going; if you want to know about my school, this is our website: www.honeyfern.org.

No, not homeschooling. I am a small, non-profit private school where each student designs their own project for the year. (I am here: www.honeyfern.org). One is building a tiny house (www.tinymaison.blogspot.com), a go-kart (www.go-kart-go.blogspot.com) and now my chicken girl...

We have a different kind of school set-up; not traditional at all. 104 on the automatic turners, though. We have a place to go; the student is designing a chicken coop, so they will go there when they are grown, and there is a place for them when they are not, too. No fertilized eggs where we...

I have a student who is designing and building a chicken coop for her school project this year, and we have decided that we might like to try to hatch the eggs while we are building. We were looking at this set for quail, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for other sets. We would...

Cynthia Chicken The Chicken Sisters

Srsly. Sorry.

I did it. GAG. I am glad, though; it went from two dime-sized spots to deep, quarter-sized divots overnight. I am going to check her again today and do it again if I have to. She is in a little isolation area. All other chooks are clean. Cleaning their pen after breakfast today. Couldn't do...

This will be my plan for tomorrow - thorough cleaning of coop and behinds. The other birdies look ok, at least the ones I saw today. WIll check everyone. Thank you for the help!!

I honestly don't think I am capable of digging like that. I am seriously nauseous thinking about it. Can I smother them in something? I can do everything else, but I don't think I am physically capable of doing what you say. We do have flies, pretty bad, in their coop. Will diatomaceous earth...

My flock has had fairly poopy butts lately; nothing runny, but just like they can't get it past their tail feathers. I grabbed one chicken to give her a trim and wash and found two round "sores" (they weren't red, brown, with no blood) filled with tiny, writhing creatures above her cloaca on...

Thanks!

Oh, and I did try the dunking her in cold water. Didn't work at all!!

I put Mabel, the black Orp, in a wire cage a couple days ago; how do I know when to take her out? It seems to me that she might just run straight back to the nest at this point. We don't have a rooster, so there is no sense in a broody hen, and she has been very persistent.

I don't have any Tylan. Where does one get that? Just at Tractor Supply?

Anyone? I put her in the "chicken hospital" - in a large, open dog crate in front of a fan with a little food and water with electrolytes and probiotics. I don't know what else to do. I checked her butt, and it looks totally normal. Only a little diarrhea on her hind feathers.