One that keeps running away. We are keeping him separated from the others for now. Unfortunately I just don't have it in my heart to have him culled and processed So I guess it has come to the point that I'm going to have to find someone who is willing to take The others and do with them what...
There is definitely physical contact. Usually one of them will grab another by the neck feathers and sometimes even climb on top of them like he's trying to hold the other one down. There has never been any blood. I would love to find them a good home where they could be actually used as a...
So we hatched some eggs this year. One hatch was 11 chicks. We separated five of the 11 after hatching with another group that hatched shortly thereafter. That left six. One turned out to be a pullet and the other five are roosters. The five roosters were kept in a bachelor pad since we took the...
She was 1 of 11 hatched. 6 were separated from the other 5. It turned out she was the only jen with 5 roosters that we chose to put in their own bachelor pad. Before we knew for sure that 5 of the 6 were roosters, they started picking on her, hanging up on her, so we brought her inside. She...
We hatched some chicks this year. 1st year doing so at this level. I am not sure what breed this is or if she is a mix, but she started laying a few weeks ago and has laid an egg every day. She is a house chicken that wears a diaper as does her house mate chicken, so we know it is her and only...
This is what I been able to find on Amazon that can arrive the soonest, Sunday. Even though it says food grade it says do not ingest. I'm scared I'm going to give her the wrong thing and hurt/kill her, I just don't know what to trust. I want to get started on this ASAP because she is so pale.
She has had access to feed, worms, and grit and she has no interest in it. When you say she can have food and water in between. Flushes which would mean in between the a.m. And the p.m. flush, does that include her liquid tube feeding formula which also contains a good bit of water? And as far...
I can absolutely try that. Since she really won't drink on her own right now, should we tube feed her water, and should we continue with the 60ml of formula 1x daily
So Mae's crop has not improved. We even got her to wear the crop bra by tying it a different way. She is still showing no interest in the grit or food or worms..Her poop has turned yellow, which I read "can" be caused by not eating enough. We are tube feeding her about 60ml 1 time a day at this...
I read your article and it is very informative, thank you. My next question is this: She is on a liquid diet, so it always feels soft and squishy. Other than her vitamins/supplements, she doesn't get anything solid and I have never felt her crop to be hard (except for the short period of time...
Thank you for that information. I did actually think about grit but I didn't know how I would get it in her since she won't eat and it won't go through the feeding tube. But I'll certainly put some in a bowl and see if she will eat it. It would be great if she would start eating on her own...
I need help figuring out how to help my girl. Mae Is a 9-year-old blind house chicken. We have had her in the house since she went blind over a year ago. We tube feed her and give her her vitamins and supplements and she has done very well on that. She did eat on her own for a short time but she...
She has been doing good all day and still is. The noise she was making and mouth breathing stopped this morning. I just gave her some coconut oil and massaged her crop, which still has some in it but not as full as this morning. I'm concerned that her emaciated state could be causing her crop...
First of all I've had chickens and I went through a lot with Ethel, a blind totally emaciated chicken that we ended up caring for for 7 months, so I know a bit about tube feeding and such. One of my customers went in the hospital and a couple days before the hospital her chicken came up sick. I...
I'm not sure if this is anything I should be concerned about or not, but I just read today that darker eggs should not be incubated with lighter eggs because they require different humidity. If that is correct, what should I do?
I put 22 eggs in the incubator. 12 were light blue (Americauna...
P We are getting ready to build a new coop and plan to use some weather boards we get collected. I had previously read somewhere in this group But of course I can't find it now, about using a penetrating something. I can't remember what it was, maybe a stain or a pesticide or I don't know what I...