Hello! I have a broody silkie who has kicked out all of her eggs but one, and her one egg is hatching.
The baby pipped earlier today, maybe four ours ago. Silkie momma has been switching around nests with one of my other broody hens that acts as a baby sitter, and I’ve checked on the chick just...
We sprayed her with the spray we had, and she jumped out of the coop pretty quickly. She’s already been drinking quite a bit. Her wound is just dripping blood but there are no cuts or punctures in her wound that we can see. I can’t do much for her because we have no supplies for surgeries...
We have a spray wound care from a feed store from a past injury. Blood is dripping from the wound. She’s moving around quite a bit and ran away from me when I caught her. She’s mostly sitting hunched over. She also got very watery poop running out of her vent.
My hen was attacked yesterday and we found her in the coop last night with some tail feathers missing so we thought that was the problem. We realized today that it’s not. Pleeeaaase help. What do we need to do and can we even save her? If it would be better for her we’re willing to put her down...
I’mWow sounds amazing! I know when my austrolorp started laying I was amazed at how big the egg was. All of hers have been double yolkers from the very beginning of her laying. So happy for you! ;):celebrate
I agree with what you said and that’s what we would have done but she was in bad shape. It was the only option we had at the moment, but I wouldn’t advise anybody else to do the same without taking caution because it could cause pain for the chicken.
One of my chickens was bitten by a dog once and had similar symptoms of seizing, not eating, and not drinking. We got her in a coop alone with food and water, kept it ventilated and dry and relatively shady in there for her. We poured hydrogen peroxide on the wound, then put triple antibiotic in...
So I’ve been thinking about maybe line breeding some of my chickens, but not the usual kind of line breeding. I want to line breed two chickens of different breeds. Possibly a silkie and a mottled Cochin or silkie and a Mille fleur D’uccle, but I was wondering if it’s safe to line breed like...
My mother is scared to death of my roos and when she helps take care of them they take advantage of that fear. This is going to help our problem so much
I agree with everyone else. Bantams aren’t good being kept in the cold, especially alone. I’d keep him inside where he can’t get too messy yet still has some room to move around. Hope this helps! :D
That’s what I thought about the Brahma. The other is from the same coop and my silkie is at laying age. No other eggs from our older chickens have looked like that but our older chickens often sneak in the bantam coop when we let them out to explore the smaller coop. Sometimes they lay in that...
They are just taking a break, it’s what most chickens do. No need to be concerned, they just don’t really like laying when there are big weather changes. Hope this helps! :)
I’m So we’re re trying to hatch eggs but want to know exactly what we’re hatching. I have two Porcelain d’uccles, one brown Brahma bantam, and a white silkie. We’ve just started getting eggs from them so we’re going to wait a little longer before we start putting them in the incubator, but I was...