I've looked at her bottom....way below the vent....and it looks raw and irritated.....feathers broken like she's trying to get them out. She was standing in the pond yesterday, as if the water was cooling her off. NONE of the hens have ever gone in the water. She's eating and drinking and...
I've got her inside now in a laundry basket. Her appetite is healthy, and she drinks her water well. So why can't she walk/run around? Her legs look good to me-and she can move them both at the body when I pick her up, but she just sits when I put her down. She's venting fine too. Any...
I have a 6 mth old poult....he's a lone survivor of three we started with. He's sick, not to mention one of his legs is mangled from being broken. He is nearly immobile. I have him isolated in his own pen. I'm feeding him a diet of organic corn, oats, yogurt and scrambled eggs with...
So I started with 6 mature egg-layers this Spring and for a few weeks I'd get 4-5 eggs a day. Then I added the babes, who are now nearly 5 mths. Now I'm lucky to get one! And my red-stars should have started laying by now. I know I have one Roo. I've heard something weird from the coop on...
Just wanted to introduce ourselves @ chickenlittleton. My husband Tim and I live in Littleton Colorado in a delightful mountain area with a couple acres and a rushing stream this time of year. We are city slickers through and through who traded it all in for the simple life with our 4 cats and...