I have a chick that walks with it's leg kicked out I couldn't cull it yet one knee joint is twice the size if the other I was checking it out today and thought it had some dry gunk on it I peeled it back and it was a scab I looked closer and just looks like a fleshy knot was wondering had this...
I live in cartersville ga
I have 10 americauna hens get a little over fourty eggs a week
they have twenty acres of pasture to graze during the day and I lock them up at night and let them out in the morning
I feel for your hawk problems I had some start poking around my coop and tried to pick up one of my big ol barred rocks one day to remedy this while they are in there pen I have several runs of netting at about 8 feet high this keeps them from swooping in at speed my rooster helps if they were...
I would not use either straw after seeing the crop surgeries on here it seems like sometimes they eat and it clogs up there crops search crop surgery on the forum before you buy any straw