After being out of town for 9 days we came home to an injured chicken. SHe has 2 large wounds on each side and 2 deep scratches on back. The wound on side has maggots in it. What do I use to clean and heal?? Need advice ASAP. First bad injury Ive had.
This little chick was labeled a Lav Orp. What is your opinion? Seems dark and doesn't have the roundness of an Orp. What is your opinion on color? Breed?
This is my 3 mth old Cream Legbar Roo. When I got him he had no feathers around his vent. I thought maybe he had pasty butt and eventually they would grow back. He is still having issues back there…. What can I do? How do I treat this??? He needs a tail! Any advice is much appreciated!
Here are a few of my surprise chickens from California.
1st: BCM at 3 mos old NO Copper feathering anywhere
2nd: Smallest of all, 3 mos old. Still no tail. Black Orp or Olive egger. NO feathering on legs
3rd Black orp (possibly split to chocolate) 3 mos old Super slow to feather...
I have a large coop with a dirt floor( ground that used to have grass) . Its covered with tin and has 2 clear panels to allow for sunlight. The front of the coop is open with a 1/2 in mesh material. We added a drainage system but it is still damp on the floor. It now has green patches of...
Ive never had straight comb chicks. Not sure about their combs. Boys or girls? I have 7 all together. Thanks!!!
Chicks 1 and 2
Chicks 3 and 4
Chicks 5, 6 and 7
My rooster was crowing away this morning. I went to check for eggs just now and he was laying down on the coop floor all by himself. He didnt move till I got right beside him. I then noticed he was falling asleep standing up. His eyes would close and his head would drop slowly toward the...
I found one of my hens dead on the coop floor this morning. Beside her was a shelless egg. She was wormed with Valbazen on Sunday. She was fine last night. I did a necropsy and didnt find an egg or eggshell. She did have a small, what i assume, prolapse. No blood, but i did notice some...
We have a very simple RCOM incubator that holds 3 eggs. We set these on Aug 3rd and this is as far in development as they got. 1 was slightly less developed. Temp was 39 C and eggs are automatically turned. ANy advice? Would like to try again ASAP
I just bought a $60 bottle of Valbazen and will only use 16 mls before it expires in 2015. What can I do with the rest of it? Anyone out there need any? Put a serious dent in my chicken bank account
Has anyone wormed their flock in 2 different groups?? I want to worm half now and the other half 10 days later so im not without eggs. Any opinions on this???
I have read almost every thread and article related to chicken lice and now im more confused then ever!!!! My 16 have lice. Some pretty bad. I dusted them all with DE a couple weeks ago. It did nothing. So what do I do now? Seven dust? There are so many opinions out there. I have no idea...
Hi Everyone,
I noticed last week one of my fake eggs was gone. I figured my husband threw it away or something. So today I bought 2 new ones. I put black Xs on them and stuck them in the 2 new nest boxes in the coop. Later i went to check for eggs and the 2 fake ones are gone. I looked...
All Ive wanted is HENS and so far ive had 6 roosters....
And im suspicious or I just dont want to believe this could be one too.
5 week old Delaware
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Holding my breath.......
I keep checking pics of Australorps and I havent found any with black combs. This girl is 12-14 wks and is still very black.
Is it an Australorp? Bottom of feet are whitish/pink
I posted this in the wrong section by accident..(anyone know how to delete a thread??) I got this girl from a man that said he had cuckoo marans but I think she is a Barred Rock.. The only thing is her barring is very muted and she is dark. She lays a medium size and color brown egg. Not...
I posted in another section but am not getting any replies. I have a Blue Hamburg that recently started laying in the flowerbeds and the eggs are odd shaped.
This happened twice. The second one looked like it had yolk on the outside. Not a lot, just a little yellow. This morning a...