So I looked today in better light and it looks like a healing wound. It was hard to hold her and look, normally I have my husband hold her but he isn't home.
We had a chicken get egg bound awhile back she survived, but I think there was nerve damamge she doesn't walk well since. So she lays down a lot, my husband picked her up the other evening and there was what looked like dirt/poop stuck on her chest. So to check took her in gave her an epsom salt...
We had built this for our quail, and decided to use tractors. So wanted to build a small coop for her. It is right near our bedroom window so we could hear her and not far from the other chickens. We need to put a roof on tho, right now only chicken wire on top.
Last summer we had a chicken get egg bound, we gave her care expecting she would die...the egg broke internally. We thought now for sure she will die. We kept doing what we could. When she seemed healthy enough moved her from the house to the shop. The egg must of pinched a nerve she can't walk...
I was so sad, everything thing we read and heard she was going to die! She is alive and so healthy and fiesty.
She doesn't seem to want to be with the other chickens now. Not sure if it is because she has a weird toe or just like being spoiled. We had them all in the yard she would start a...
Couple months back I posted we had a hen by husband found it wouldn't get up, couldn't walk. She was egg bound, it broke internally. Everything we read she was going to die. Well this was July, Aug she lived in our guest bath in a dog crate eating yogurt, receiving 2 epsom salt baths a day...
I currently have 4 males and 10 females so I have all the males divided for safety.....some were raised together but now that they have been separated worry about putting them back together. We started with 2 were told they were females......both males. So then bought more because we wanted the...
Do any of you have more than one Male per pen? If so to keep everyone happy what ratio then? I am not worried about breeding so much just ended up with males and don't want fighting.