Good morning all,
Sssssoooo, after surviving a dog attack, then a raccoon attack that decimated our flock, we installed electric fencing around our Fort Knox coop and that seems to have been working against predators for the last couple of months, but we now have another problem. Over the last...
So to try and make a long story short, about three weeks ago, I lost eight banties to a dog attack, had one that was severely injured, that has now recovered, and one that apparently was injured as well that I didn't notice until she became paralyzed a couple of weeks after the attack. She had...
Good afternoon all,
It is with great, great sadness that I write this post. I lost 8 of my 13 pet banties to a predator a couple of days/nights ago and I am still boohooing. Something got into what we thought were coops that were basically impenetrable. We had lost chickens to hawks before...
I have a 2 and a half year old chicken that hasn't been acting right for the last 3 days although she appears to be a tad better today. Her comb is droopy and her bottom is wet. Her poop is whitish/yellowish/green and she is slow getting around. She may have passed a rubber egg yesterday but...
Have 5 week and a half old chicks and just noticed that one of them is throwing his head back and and acting as if he is crowing but there is no sound. Should I be concerned? I have not noticed that behavior until just now...
Good morning,
We purchased 5 (3day old) chicks from the Ace Hardware yesterday, purchased the medicated feed and they gave us a bag of oxytetracycline HCI to put in their water. I want to make sure I am not overmedicating and if so, how many teaspoons or partial teaspoons of the...