Recent content by WiddleChix

It ended up being nothing. They were all fine. How are yours acting?

I’m also unsure of why she is acting like this. I checked for mites but didn’t see any. I also felt inside for an egg or broken egg and found nothing. Her wings droop and she has low energy, I had to tube feed her this morning because she is so thin and only pecked at the Kaytee Exact that I...

hi so I just started tube feeding my 2 year old hen because she is underweight and not interested in food along with being lethargic with a pale comb. I just wanted to know if I could accidentally injure her if I inserted the feeding tube in too far? I’m using a piece of aquarium tubing and...

Also, if she's stressed you could keep her inside or seperate her if you have other chickens, somewhere quite where she can get back to her normal self.

I've had a chicken who was scalped down to her skull and what I did was clean the wound with some antibacterial soap, warm water and a wash cloth. After I cleaned it about once a day, then I applied some neosporin or triple anti biotic ointment (no painkiller in it) a couple times a day until it...

Thank you! I've learned to love chickens so much in such a short amount of time and if I can help other chickens then that's what I want to do. My chickens have no use for them because it doesn't get could enough here in SoCal but I know facilities in cold temperatures could use them for their...

I've been reading a lot about how I can donate sweaters to ex battery hens who have no feathers, I don't have the money or else I would donate it. I read about the Little Hen Rescue but I'm pretty sure they shut down because they kept getting burglarized. Does anyone know of somewhere I can...

Yeah drinking extra water can cause runny poop. Is it warm where you're located? Mine do on and off as I'm in Southern California and the weather's usually on the warmer side.

Lol thanks I plan on collecting eggs daily, I don't really like the idea of letting them sit in the coop especially when it's warm all the time where I live. Thanks for the info! How fully I'll gets eggs really soon!!

Haha yeah turkeys are crazy. These will be my first laying chickens. I had chickens last year but something came through and they all got sick and none made it, it was pretty devastating but I never knew how cool chickens were before then so I decided I really wanted more and this time I'm very...

I have about a 3-4 inch lip or so on the boxes, I made them so I just kind of eyeballed it but I could always readjust it. The boxes are on the floor of the raised coop so I'm not worried about them breaking from falling(it's the turkeys kicking them out on purpose) but from the chickens pecking...

Thank you so much!! I plan on hatching atleast a couple given my run size and I was just really interested what they would look like! My EE is black with some buff around her shoulders and chest She hasn't layed any eggs yet so I'm not sure the color but she definitely has a small pea comb. I...

I have a gold brabanter cockerel and I'm wondering what the offspring would look like. The pullets I have are: 1 buff Orpington 2 buff Cochins 1 partridge rock 1 EE 1 Dominique Does anyone have any mixes like this or know where I could find any pictures? I just want to know what they could...

So, I have 6 pullets, 1 cockerel and 2 heritage turkeys of unknown gender who are all about 5 months old(give or take a week). I put their nesting boxes in the coop with a fake ceramic egg in each when they were 4 months old. When they first saw the egg they were all pecking at it and kicking...

Backyard Chickens is a community of very friendly, kind people who try to help those in need in any way possible,but if no information is given, no one can help you. What other symptoms are you noticing? If you can tell us the symptoms we could help you, however if you can't tell us what your...