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I agree with Wyorp Rock. I had two Jersey Giants that were bare bottomed, had the rattiest neck feathers and were practically bald for a year due to pecking. I sewed a chicken saddle, and that seemed to help stop the bullying a bit, but it took nearly a year for their feathers to come back. If...

This is the article I followed: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/fermenting-chicken-feed-a-straightforward-method.75967/

Personally, I buy the higher protein game feed for my flock (chickens, goose, turkey, quail) and use it as a supplemental feed to a mix of fermented grains. I've only been using this method for a few months, but have found that my girls are eating less, have better body composition, less health...

Do you have a picture of the chick? You will probably need to raise her separately to give her a chance.

Also, welcome to the BYC!

Regular triple antibiotic will be fine, so long as it doesn’t have "pain relief" in it. I would turn on the heat lamp so you can monitor the little one for a bit before you head off to get some rest. If you have a thermometer, you'll want it about 95ish. Has the chick been drinking? It won't...

Ideally, we change the chickens' water daily, but my younger brother is in charge of water duty and occasionally it gets put off to "every other day".... or whenever I start chewing his ear off :rant:smack

Thank you. We've had parrots/birds longer than chickens, so it was definitely an experience... she was a sweet one but I can’t get over how quickly it all happened. Vet said it may have been canary pox? I've never heard of pox causing arterial spurts though :idunno

Hello all! Curious question for those of you who've kept birds- have you ever had an instance where a major artery literally explodes? We had a 2yr/o canary that had a bad case of scaley mites which we had treated by a vet 2x (revolution and doxycycline). Yesterday I noticed she wasn't getting...

Hello! Are you in South Orange County SoCal?

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Thanks y'all for your responses! Good to know- he's an absolute sweetheart 💕 I don't plan to show him, as he was gotten as a companion bird. Though, even if I wanted to breed him, I'm not sure I could.... he's half the size of our silke! :lau

Hello y'all! I had picked up this little guy from a mixed bin of bantam chicks at TSC a few months back, and he is now 9wks old today and I have no idea what he's supposed to be! Someone had suggested that he'll turn out to be a BB red old English game and another a silver duckwing- problem is...

1 looks to be an LO

The louder bossy one might be a male, or he might not. Our Gussie was fairly docile when he was little lol. From what I've noticed, most stores sell Chinese brown geese as oopsed to African geese (though they might advertise the gosling as African). So far, from the slender necks I'd say they're...

They look to be either Chinese brown geese or African geese. I'm betting on the first one since they look a lot like my Gussie did at that age :) As for gender... it's going to be a while before you can tell. Not unless you know how to vent sex 😬

I'm so sorry :hugs

I've primarily hatched quail chicks- and with each hatch I've had to assist at least once. It may be the fact that they're all so staggered that by the time I need to removed a fluffy chick, someone else may be hatching and gets shrinkwrapped. All of the chicks I've assisted either die shortly...

It looks like she may have scratched/scraped her waddle. It should heal just fine on its own :)

Hello All! We currently have 4 rooster boys that we're hoping to find a home for. These boys are not stock-pot material, but would make fantastic breeders! Somehow, we hit a lucky streak with these boys, as all 4 are very friendly, healthy and non aggressive despite having a few, brief...