Sophie is a 5 month old Rode Island Red. She is healthy and growing, good feathers, red comb, clear eyes, eats and drinks normally. No sign that she is ready to lay eggs yet. She eats a combination of a commercial start and grow crumble and some lay crumble with a little cracked corn as a treat...
Just got back from a week's vacation, and I have two sick hens.
I'm very worried, trying to figure out what do do. I used the disease sticky to describe their conditions. No sign of injury or trauma for either bird. Maya was "off" win I left, Wilma was fine. Here's a rundown:
Maya...
This is my 5 month old (hatched July 4) Columbian Wyandotte. Purchased from a hatchery with a girl chick guarantee. Yeah, I know they can make mistakes, but I had faith. I'm starting to worry about "Connie". Please let me know what you think. I have no other Wyandottes to compare to.
I have a 9 week old silkie who was recently (1 week ago) moved outside with her 6 "sisters", all the same age. Three nights ago she was having trouble walking, and needed to be helped up to roost on a shelf with the others. The next morning she wasn't moving, leaning up against the coop wall, so...
It's been a bad night.
Came home to discover that a dog had killed my sweet silkie, Helen. I found the place where it came in from the neighbor's yard. It had moved part of the fence aside from their side and got under the wire.
My chickens free-range in my yard, we have a perimeter fence...
Hi All. I'm so gad you are here to answer questions. I've already learned a lot from reading other discussions.
Here's the first of many questions I have:
I want my chicks to LOOVE me (they are 2 1/2 weeks old today) so I want to give them treats. But what? I tried a strawberry, they looked at...
After being adopted by a group of neighborhood free-ranging chickens, I learned that true bliss is having a happy flock follow me around the garden, looking for the bugs I stirred up. Sadly, they disappeared one day (never did find out to whom they belonged) and I've been missing them ever...