I have a chicken who is about 18 months old and she will not put any weight on one of her legs. She was totally fine, running around the yard and when I went to close the coop door the other night, she was sitting on the floor of the coop. I went and picked her up and she would not put any...
Hi there. Just hoping for a little direction as we are still pretty new at this whole chicken thing. We have had our girls now for a year without any problems until last week one of them developed bumblefoot. Thanks to BYC we were able to find out what it was as well as perform the surgery...
We have a four week old White Rock Cornish cross who started to limp about a week and a half ago. We checked her out many times to see what was wrong but we could never find the problem. We thought it may have been bumblefoot but tonight when we picked her up to have a look again, we saw that...
Just thought I would post a few pics of our Chicken coop in progress.
My husband had a picture in his head of how the coop should be and here it is coming to life.
All I have to say, is I hope these chickens appreciate their new home.
The Chicken Palace
The girls are doing their...
Hi, I am a chicken newbie. We received 19 day old chicks last Tuesday. Everyone did great until Friday - we lost one late Friday night. We think this was due to stress as we had some friends over with small children and they got handled a lot :( The kids were gentle and the chicks are used...
Hi, I am a chicken newbie. We received 19 day old chicks last Tuesday. Everyone did great until Friday - we lost one late Friday night. We think this was due to stress as we had some friends over with small children and they got handled a lot :( The kids were gentle and the chicks are used...
Hi All. I live in Ontario Canada and have been talked into getting Chickens by my husband. We just moved to a home with over an acre of land and he has always wanted to raise some chickens, so here we go. We have 15 chicks coming the end of April and I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by the...