Hi!
What follows is a bit of an epic post. Sorry for the length. We've just been dealing with these 2 sick hens for a long time and are at a loss for solutions. So we thought we'd lay it all out here and see if anyone can offer some advice. Both birds got sick around the same time, although...
Here we are! Almost Christmas and my only wish list is full of supplies to help me take care of my girls...
I live in Canada. Beautiful country, nice peeps, sweet weather (although it doesn't make it easy on chickens keepers!)... but here's where it stinks: all meds, from antibiotics to...
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I was wondering if someone ever used essential oils in a mist to ease a respiratory disease? I ordered antibiotics and oxine but I still need to wait until next week to get them.
I was thinking about using a mist of water and oregano oil as it has some antibiotic properties... just to...
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It's time to give your opinion about what we should do... Let's do a poll!
Easter is impacted AGAIN! It's been going on and off for a month now! We did try oil, massages, soft food... We slowly brought her back to regular food... She's acting fine: eats, drinks, no discharge, etc...
Here's a video of our Easter Egger coughing...
She's been doing this for 3 weeks now.
She had an impacted crop that we treated with massages and olive oil and seems to have gone away... but the cough remains.
Other than that, no symptoms... clear eyes, no discharge, regular energy...
hi guys!
my Easter had an impacted crop and has been "living" with us in a dog cage with a heating pad for a week now... Her crop was really bad: the size of a tennis ball!!! And sooooo hard... But, every few hours, every day, we've been massaging her, giving her olive oil, feeding her baby...
So the consensus so far has been that our buff brahma is a lady.... But lately these feathers showed up on her back.
Are these the dreaded saddle feathers? Is this for sure an indication of maleness? (s)he doesn't have much in the way of a comb or waddle...
Thanks for your tips!
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I know brahmas take up to 2 years to mature, but any ideas of what we have here?
The feathers on her back is getting me confused... Her comb/wattles are still pretty pink and small, but since she is my only brahma, I have nothing to compare her with...
She must be around 15-16...
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Our Buffy is making weird noises since a week or so... She never made that sound before and is still chirping like a chick even though she's more or less 16 weeks old... She acts normally, eats, drinks, she's active... nothing changed but that weird and fast "honk-honk"!
I know it's...
This little fury thing is one of our last addition to our flock!
She is 4-5 weeks old; is it too young to tell if she's a she or a he?
Also, we were told she was a splash: is she?
And is it me, or she could be frizzled? How can you tell? What do you look for?
By the way, we still need a...
Here's our Blueberry, around 10 weeks old more or less...
She or He?
Her wattles haven't change in the last 2-3 weeks... her neck seems to get a little darker than the rest of her body though...
And we were told she was a Blue Cochin, but she seems like a really dark Blue Cochin, or...
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You know when you have one chicken you keep going back and forth every day; "Cunegonde is a she", next day: Cunegonde is a he!" and the day after, "I think Cunegonde is a she"...
Well here you go! Maybe you guys will be able to help me (she should be around 12 weeks old now)...
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Our little Easter (I know, not original... ) is now somewhere around 12 weeks... She seems to have a cushion comb... Not even sure if she's an EE: green legs, cushion comb, not much of a tail... but not much of the typical kinda neck all EE's pics have seen have either (sorry, I don't...
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These pics are of our new faverole chick; she's about 6 weeks. She seems to be unable to completely close her beak... also, her right eye is a little funky... It got watery yesterday and for a little while she couldn't close it all the way.
Today her eye seems a little better...
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I've noticed this morning that Paulinsky, our golden laced polish, seems to have new feathers on her tail coming out... And seems like the tips are blue in the sunlight! Is it a clear sign she's a "he" or polish hens also can get colored tail feathers?
I find really hard to sex...
hi guys!
our flock is getting older and now comes the fun part where we try to guess the sex of our babies... maybe you guys could give us a little help!
also, i have a chick that i'm not sure which breed is; we've been told she was a brahma dark, but somehow she doesn't look like any pics i...