Recent content by Ebony Rose

I use the broomstick method as well. It's virtually instantaneous, and I can accomplish the task alone, even with my arthritis. There are some excellent videos on youtube about the method.

Canned cat food plus your choice of raw minced meat and/or fish (raw or canned) will be very helpful for her. Do not offer her dairy products as cats don't make the enzyme needed to digest it after they're weened and it will give her the 'runs'. I'm guessing that you have poultry (since...

For gleet? Monistat cream found in female hygiene aisle at pharmacy. Squeeze about 1" of the cream onto your gloved finger and rub it ON and IN her vent daily. If this is the issue, she'll start looking better in a week.

She might have gleet.

Thanks for the update @Petukh

https://cleverpetowners.com/chick-hatched-with-intestines-out/

Rule of thumb is a quarter pound of feed per bird. Bigger birds slightly more, smaller birds slightly less.

Perhaps bantam something is in her ancestry. I have a hen with pretty much the same situation you're describing... long story short, she's a year old now, still tiny, and never a problem with health or with getting along with the other birds. As small as she is, I am often surprised by the...

I am so sorry you had to go through this. I believe she'll be waiting for you at the rainbow bridge when it is time.

I've seen that in chickens before, in my case it was ovarian cancer.

My interpretation of the image is a juvenile naked-neck bird that is in a virtual state of constant molting that somehow injured itself, perhaps on a fence, or was pecked at or feather pulled, until it bled, and then the bloodbath ensued. I agree that they might end up killing it, if it is...

Part of being a good caretaker is making do with what you have at hand to resolve emergencies. If your folks cannot be swayed to purchase first aid items for your birds, then clean the wound, separate the injured bird from the flock, and return the bird to the flock as soon as possible after a...

Separate the bird from the flock, preferably in a wire cage or dog kennel that you can leave in the coop near the other birds to maintain this individuals pecking order (so they won't have to fight to get their pecking order back). Rinse the wound with saline if you have it, or water. If the...

How's your girl?

The submissive roos are not supposed to crow, as doing so is a direct affront to the status of the alpha rooster. Said another way, a submissive rooster that crows is cruisin' for a bruisin'.