Honestly, you can do whatever you want. Although, it seems you and your puppy are giving it enough love, and it might be frightened of it. My suggestion is to put a mirror in its coop, because I have found this helpful with erm, chicken loneliness.
-GoofyPoofy
My Cinnamon Queen hybrid layer chicken has what I call chicken asthma, but it is more like chicken pneumonia. She has been coughing sounds like a goose honking. her I held her for a while to see what was wrong, she honked and a yellow kernel of mucus-stuff came out. Her breathing sounds...
Well, "Rooster Don", I'm sorry to say, but unless the other chickens have any symptoms, I'd say everything is fine. Sorry for your loss, my favorite hen just died of a terminal reproductive disorder. All my other peepies are in wonderful health. So, to sum it up, if no more birds die and if...
Yes her leg was sprained, I think she's just beginning to get over it. She sleeps in a 2-foot up nest box with her friends(they seem to sleep with her more ever since Carles died). Oh, ha-ha, the game old biddy stopped laying a long long time ago. She can walk, just very slowly. She "has no...
My Blackstar hen, Sam, has been acting odd. She injured her lag a while ago. It healed up but she walks slowly and oddly. That's ok. But she has been sitting around looking sad with her tail down, which is odd since she is top of the pecking order. She will dirt bathe, and she is eating and...
My Blackstar chicken, Carly had this problem. She passed yesterday at 4 and a half years old.
R.I.P Carly
The lash egg thing.
Here is a pic of Carly, I miss her so much.
Hey ya'll thanks for the help. Obviously it was something terminal because yesterday morning, dear old Carlz passed. Poor girl.
Thanks for trying though.
R.I.P. Carly
Hey yall it's Goofy. This is rare, but i need help. My four year old Blackstar chicken "gave birth" to a weird fleshy thing and some egg yolk. A stringy white eggy thing came out a few days ago. She has been acting depressed and i put her in a weheelbarrow wiuth some food and she stayed there...
Don't let the Buff Orpingtons free range. As for the RSL's, your options are:
-Separate the Buffys from the Reds.
- Give away the Red Sex Links. Buy more and try again.
-Or the horrible option,
butcher the Reds.
I'm sorry but this is all the advice I have.
-Goofy
You can feed them for a day or two on instant oatmeal, flaked infant cereal, or other whole-grain cereals. You can put whole grains (rice, wheat, barley, old-fashioned oats, anything) into the blender and blend them slightly. Do not blend completely to a powder --- the feed should have some...
She won't miss her old chicks because she will have others. Be careful moving her, though. You can if you trust yourself. Sorry about the whole "neighbor rooster" thing. Any more questions?