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  1. Chicken Ma

    Sick red Frizzle rooster - please help!

    Got home from a short vacation (adult was taking care of pets) and discovered one of my roosters just standing in one spot with his eyes shut. It got very cold while we were gone and I have a feeling he stayed in the enclosed yard and did not go in the coop because he normally sleeps outside...
  2. Chicken Ma

    Help!!!

    Came home from 2 days gone and found my female banty with a swollen abdomen and sitting in an upright position. Please help! She seems to be skin and bones now. Could not feel any egg and she did poop. What can I do??????
  3. Chicken Ma

    Help!!!

    Just got home from 2 days away and found one of my female banties with a swollen abdomen, sitting in a straight upright postion, like a kangaroo. She is skin and bones. Was fine previous to our leaving. She had watermelon as a treat the day we left. She is my BABY and I am sick about this...
  4. Chicken Ma

    Need flock advice

    I have 11 bantam hens and 6 bantam roosters. Have tried to find homes for the roos, to no avail and I just cannot bring myself to put them down. So, I have two roos each (they get along, but only with one another) in one cage, two others that get along in another, and the third pair that get...
  5. Chicken Ma

    Still Broody!!!

    I wrote before about my hen not leaving the nest, but also not laying any eggs. Well, I've changed everything around, including the nestboxes and now she is "nesting" on the roost and not leaving it. Still no eggs, but she is determined to just sit there. If I move her and put her by food and...
  6. Chicken Ma

    Broody hen - but no eggs? Please help.

    I have a 6 mo. old bantam hen that went broody about a month ago, sitting on two eggs. I removed the eggs and every day for about 3 days, I had to take her off the nest. Then she would eat and drink and after 3 days, seemed to get over the broodiness. Last week I noticed her in the nest...
  7. Chicken Ma

    Lumps in both rear legs

    Just discovered lumps in both rear legs of my Westie. She is 14. At first I thought it was her leg muscle, then realized it was not. Both legs have one and they are between a quarter and a fifty-cent piece size. I have a vet appt. for Monday, but wondered if anyone else has encountered this...
  8. Chicken Ma

    Rooster's spurs

    Not sure if I posted this in the right place, but was wondering if you can trim a rooster's spurs like you can trim dogs' toenails? Do you have to worry about cutting into a "quick"? Thanks!
  9. Chicken Ma

    Beautiful white crested black Polish pair need home!

    Six month old gorgeous black Polish hen and rooster need a new home. Feathers are black with greenish tint in the sunlight. White plumed feathers grace their heads --- his is longer and feathery, hers is more of a "pouf". Grandkids named them Ike and Tina Turner and it fits! Am in...
  10. Chicken Ma

    Need homes for roosters

    Unfortunately, half of the chicks turned out to be roosters and they have now started fighting badly. I am in northern CA (Bay Area actually). I have two Mille Fleuer, one Olde English, one silver/gold Sebright cross, and one white crested Black Polish. They are bantams, although the Polish...
  11. Chicken Ma

    Red Frizzle being picked on

    When I got my last bunch of bantam chicks, I got two red Frizzles. One turned out with regular feathers, the other had the "frizzle" look. I noticed that a lot of her feathers did not seem to be coming in. Then I noticed that the other bird(s) were pecking her and pulling out the feathers. I...
  12. Chicken Ma

    Prolapse --- need advice!

    My very favorite hen (isn't that always the way) has a very red prolapse showing. I don't know how long it was like this, as I only discovered it today. I took her to the vet and he recommended putting Neosporin on the outside and gave me an antibiotic liquid to squirt inside twice a day...
  13. Chicken Ma

    Chicken being picked on, bad feather loss

    I have some young chickens, two of which are frizzle bantams. The one has the frizzle feathers, the other doesn't. I also have 6 others. The frizzle's feathers on his body did not seem to be growing, he looked like he'd been plucked! I could see no indication of feathers growing on his body...
  14. Chicken Ma

    It IS addictive!!!

    I've only had bantams for a little over a year and I've read how you become addicted to them. Well, now I KNOW. Went to the feed store to get alfalfa for my goats and Layena for my chickens (I have 9 --- 3 Silver Sebrings, 1 Mille Fleuer, 3 Old English, 1 Golden Sebring, and 1 Silver/Golden...
  15. Chicken Ma

    Chicken's crop is full

    I'm new with chickens and don't know if I'm posting the right place or not. I recently noticed a couple of my chickens with a lump on the front of them, which I determined to be their crops. I can feel the feed in them. I have never noticed this before, so wondered if this is normal and I've...
  16. Chicken Ma

    Inter-breeding --- ???

    I now have two more roosters and two hens, though they still are babies. What I'm wondering, since I am new to this chicken stuff, is if I let my hens hatch out more eggs next spring, what happens if one of the roosters mates with a hen, who just happened to be his mother? Will the chicks be...
  17. Chicken Ma

    Question on floor of coop

    I am having a friend build a coop to attach to my 8 x 12 cyclone fence run. Can I leave the bottom with just dirt, with shavings put over it, or do I need to have a wood or cement, etc. floor? It is in a corner of my yard and will abutt my fence on two sides, the open run on the third, and...
  18. Chicken Ma

    Will feathers ever grow back?

    I've written on here before about one chick that got "scalped" when she was about 4 days old. That was about 2-3 wks. ago. Its head is healing and I tried putting her back with her Mom & 2 siblings, but Mom went after her. I tried with another family, same thing. She is alone in the house...
  19. Chicken Ma

    Weak chick died, question on second chick

    We lost the weak chick today. The other chick is the one that somehow got the top of his head (feathers & skin) peeled back. It is healing nicely and he is eating and drinking, but is really lonely I can tell. I'm sure there is dried blood and dead skin around the base of his neck from the area...
  20. Chicken Ma

    Need help with 2 babies

    Have two babies I had to take away & I have them under a heat lamp. One is way too small & weak and if I hadn't helped him out of the egg, he probably would have died inside it. The other got its head injured & had no feathers or skin on top, so I removed it because I was afraid the mother...
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