My girl’s bumble foot is back. 😢 I got out what I could (no kernel) and treated her with prid last Fall for what seemed like forever. Took her to the vet and he just gave us children’s bubblegum antibiotics 🤦🏽♀️. I gave her colloidal silver on bread instead (they all ate it, of course—I was...
I have 7 hens and a roo. Four are almost 2 years old, and 3 are 9 months old. We started getting eggs in January, and had worked up to 4-5 a day. One day early in the week, we got 6. The past two days, we got 3, and today I just got one! I have no idea what is going on! The backs of two are...
After my above rant, I realized I forgot to say what my “hopeful/current plan” is. A friend at church told me a while back to get a rooster. Soooo with this group of chicks, I was hoping to get a rooster that might “take charge”. I guess it’s a crap shoot…
I have the same problem. We had six pullets we got almost a year ago. When the two “alpha hens” went broody in March/April, we got 6 fertilized eggs after other attempts to keep them off the nests failed. One is white, 4 black and 1 brown. It’s the white one that gets bullied the most, of...
Can I ask a question. Here? I’m new, though I’ve read this forum and FB page since before we got 6 pullets last September.
We had a hen go broody a couple months ago, and I couldn’t keep her off the nest. Then a few weeks later, a second joined. They were trying their derndest to hatch wooden...