My daughter was waiting for the bus early yesterday morning and heard what to her sounding like a large animal digging near the chicken pen. As I investigated I couldn't find anything or hear anything. Today she showed me where the noise was coming from and we found a rather large whole. The...
Hi everyone, I received an order of 6 chicks yesterday all alive one of my chicks turned over on its back by itself. When I helped her over she seemed back to normal. I gave them electrolytes in the water. And are on medicated chick starter feed. Last night before I went to bed I noticed she...
My 10 week old duck seems to be having seizure like activity. She's been like this for about 3 to 4 days. Doing research I thought that she may have a niacin deficiency I took her to the vet she gave her a shot of vitamin B and gave her a prescription for doxycyclinethinking that it could be...
I need some help, I have 8 chickens of different breeds I am new at chicken keeping and need some advice before winter hits I noticed my chickens we're losing feathers I thought it was weird but figured it was molting I keep a heater in the coop so I wasn't too concerned they act normally eating...
Now that the winter is coming, I'm trying to think of ways to keep the snow out of the chicken run, right now my girls have a 10x10 dog kennel that they use as a run, I have a elevated bar down the middle of it covered by a tarp for shade and to keep them dry in the rain, the tarp only covers...
Hello everyone! I'm new to this whole thing, any advise or comments would be appreciated. I do not have any chickens yet but am looking for information on the proper way to care, house chickens, I've decided to get them for eggs but looking for suggestions on the type of bird to get. I live in...