Is it really that easy lol? I’ve read different articles with some saying just petroleum jelly and others saying you have to soak their feet everyday and then sanitize the entire coop! Sheesh what a headache 🤕
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these are the feet of my 3y/o polish hen Bubbles. I’ve never had a problem with mites, but I didn’t even know they were a thing until recently. The scales on Bubbles legs have been raised for awhile, but they don’t have the crustiness which seems to go along with scaly leg mites (at...
Thanks to the people who gave their advice and best wishes for Margarita. We made the tough decision yesterday to have her humanely euthanized as she was rapidly losing weight, was still immobile, and neither eating nor drinking on her own. She was such a wonderful chicken and she will be...
Hello fellow Washingtonians!!
well, I have a very sad predicament. I’ve been raising five chickens since 2017from day old chicks...I lost two this year and the third is suddenly not walking, so her future is uncertain. I’m going to college next year, and I also think it’s sad to only have two...
I had thought it might be arthritis. The first time we took her to the vet they didn’t say anything about arthritis, but she has an appointment coming up so I will definitely ask...I can’t imagine it’s sustainable to just keep giving her meds for it if it is arthritis, do you know of any natural...
Ok, that’s good to know. I hadn’t thought about any type of poisoning...I know my dad had sprinkled something with copper on the roof of our house to kill moss, I don’t know if any of it got on the grass. It did rain a lot between then and the time I let them back out to forage...maybe it could...
Hm, that’s good to know other people have had this happen. What kind of care did you give her? She’s inside our house in a medium dog crate now with her food and water and we’ll take her outside so she can stretch her wings multiple times a day and see if she’ll walk around at all. It’s cold now...
We’ve been putting vitamin b oil in some eggs and yoghurt and she will eat that pretty willingly...usually if she walks it’s so suddenly and for such a little time I don’t have time to video it, but I’ll try.
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well, this has been a difficult season for my chickens! I lost one earlier this year to a mysterious sickness, I just lost another to complications from sour crop, and now I have an Amerucana who can’t walk...I have two healthy hens outside in the coop right now (but they’re both...
Hi all. Ok, so my polish hen has been acting wierdly. This morning when I let her out she was drinking and eating etc, but I come a few hours later and she's roosting and the other are all outside. I brought her down with the others but she was acting really wierdly....closing one eye and...
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So...unfortunately we built our coop and run on the hill...the valley part. And now since its raining so much the run is flooded. The coop is dry and fine, but there is water in the run. Will the chickens get sick?? We're planning on moving the coop and run when the weather clears up. I...
HAHA I have two ameraucanas that look just like yours!! And if it isn't crowing, then it probably isn't. The silkie roo I had started crowing at about a month or two.
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So tonight I was waiting for my one of my ameraucanas to get her last drink before putting her on the roost with the other (Trying to train her to use it :) I've given up with my silkies ) and as I picked her up this clear liquid came out of her beak. She was mouth breathing for a...
I'm a teen and my chickens love me! I have two silkies, two amerucanas, and one polish :) The silkies are just cuddle monsters and one of my amerucanas will give me chicken hugs :) They all get jealous of each other when spend time with the other ones and will keep rubbing their beaks on me and...
The wire is hardware cloth and it is very secure onto the posts. We built it over an old patio so the floor is just sand over brick...nothing can dig up:) the coop is raised and I always close them up at night so they aren't hanging around in the run...