The little gal pulled through. I couldn’t get the supplies Eggcesive suggested so I went and got turkey vegetable baby food and watered it down to go through the syringe. It’s been 5 days now of giving tiny bits of water and food every hour by day and letting her sleep at night. I’d run down and...
Hi! I live in SE AK and have 14 chickens of various ages, 3 Broad Breasted Boronze turkeys a Karakachan to keep bears and wolves at bay, a Berger Picard that barks a lot but would eat chickens if he coul, a Siberian Forest Cat and the smaller blue bundle of chaos- a rescue cat.
I have a kitchen scale, next time I move her I’ll get a weight. We only have a Petco- not sure if they’ll have all the supplies or food.
Thank you! I may be back with questions later.
My month chick was attacked by a ferret two days ago. She won’t eat or drink on her own. I’m going to get baby food for her but how many ml do I give at a time? Home many times a day? I’m giving her water every hour but again, how many ml at a time and how many times a day?
I gave her some...
Thank you! I’m sure we will. And I know that, just needed to hear it. We’ll have to improvise since we weren’t planning a roo at all but he’ll fit in somehow.
I was here years ago but when the last batch got older and we decided we were going to move they went to the soup pot and we were chicken-less.
5+ years later, we have our new digs and acquired a roo (see post about that) and are starting the new flock.
The coop is in process, the lumber...
I’ll do an introduction post later but need a bit of help now.
I SHOULD have figured it out but didn’t. We moved to a more rural area and haven’t got a coop in yet but I got a message there was a chicken a mile up the road so I grabbed a box and oatmeal and went up the hill. It was semi-dark...