Thank you for all the answers:) I think we’re going try to work out a bachelor pad for them. They free range on 2 acres during the day so, We will need to figure that out but that seems like the answer that would work best for us. But for the bachelor pad itself, we just need to find a great...
Thanks! The bachelor pad idea would probably be one we could figure out. My 13-year-old daughter is our family chicken whisperer and she loves them like pets. Some of them fight but maybe not if the hens were around?
Thank you everyone! That’s what I thought. Unfortunately this means that we have at least seven (maybe 8) roosters in a flock of 23! To make matters more complicated, I had a chicken die a couple months ago and the vet thought that it was probably Marek’s so now I should consider the whole...
I have some really gorgeous roosters and too many of them. I have a beautiful Chilean Araucana who has not been getting along with my Ayam Cemani And I also have two beautiful best buddy lavender Orpingtons who have turned out to be male, A black silkie rooster and two seramas! My problem...
I have some really gorgeous roosters and too many of them. I have a beautiful Chilean Araucana who has not been getting along with my Ayam Cemani And I also have two beautiful best buddy lavender Orpingtons who have turned out to be male, A black silkie rooster and two seramas! My problem...
Hi! I have two lavender Orpingtons that I think may both be roosters. Could somebody confirm my suspicions? They are 3 to 5 months old. Unfortunately this will mean that we have entirely too many roosters!!
Hi! My goose has been sick for over a month now. We took him to an avian vet Twice now and has been on Three other types of antibiotics, as they have been concerned that he is either septic or close to being septic with a very bad bacterial infection. The antibiotics seem to keep him going but...
I found a place that I can get tylan today via curbside pickup so I will go grab that if you think it’s the best first response. We have the sick ones Quarantined in a separate coop so hopefully that will help it not spread! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your thorough reply! We are under a shelter in place order here so trying not to leave the house but I will try the Tylan first. The only problem is it doesn’t get delivered until the 28th so I’m a little worried about that. The baytril will be here on the 26th but as you...
Hi thank you for your response! This morning it looks like this… One other chicken it looks very similar to this and then the one who has audible respiratory issues has clear eyes
Hi! This morning I isolated one of my hens because she was breathing heavy and raspy and sneezing and coughing and I ordered some baytril. Tonight my daughter noticed that two other hens had large amounts of white discharge coming from their eyes so we isolated the both of them in a separate...
Sure - I’ll take some tomorrow. I did look at a chicken poop chart and there isn’t any blood or anything. It’s actually starting to solidify a little bit as of tonight and looking more normal. There is a ton of it all over her we are feathers, but I looked at her vent and it looks fairly normal...
This morning I noticed that she is having diarrhea but her face seems much less yellow and more red and normal looking so I think that’s a good sign. She is eating but seems very light and her crop is not full.
Hi! Thanks for writing. I just noticed her acting strangely today and staying on the other side of the yard from the rest of the flock. I put her in a clean dog crate with food and water and a heat lamp and thought I might try to treat her for mites tomorrow in case that’s it but I really have...
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I am wondering whether to remove a baby chick from her mothers and put her in a brooder. She is about 1 week old and the only chick that hatched. There are two hens that sat on her and bonded with her so they are all 3 in the "nursery" portion of the coop. Two days ago, the chick's leg was...