I have a Chinese brown Gander, he is a year old as of this week. he has been in perfect health until yesterday. out of the blue he started exhibiting signs of stumbling and falling down to the point he seems like he is drunk.
There isn't any poisons, food or other materials he could have...
we have four hens that are almost a year old. for the last month I have noticed that some of the feather are being lost in some areas on top of their bodies. at first I thought it was either mites or fleas but I have cleaned the coop and applied DE and also a poultry dust in the coop and on...
I am new to chickens and one of our hens has a large open area under her left wing..... it is larger then a half dollar and you can see what looks to me like the muscles etc. it doesn't look infected but the edges of the open are so far apart it looks like you could pull it together and put...
we live in Western Wisconsin and as everyone might know our winters can be terrible.
tonight we went into the coop and set up the heat lamp for the chickens..... they are 22 weeks old. it was almost dark and we had it turned on and as they went into the coop they immediately started to fight...
my daughter and I have notice for the last 2 weeks that our 11 week old rooster has a soft squishy lump on his right breast which sticks out about 1 inch..... he is otherwise active, eats and drinks....... we are giving the chicks feed/grit and veggie scraps.... we are new to the chicken scene...
We are NEW to the chicken scene and I have a question.......
we finally moved our small 9 week old flock of 7 to their permanent coop a week or so ago and all this time I have been noticing that they are not eating and drinking as well as they use too in the temporary coop.....
in the temp...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
We are new to raising chickens, my daughter hatched the chicks we have now in her classroom she was very excited to be able to bring home 7 of them to raise.......
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Currently we...