My girls have lice and I have treated all with Elector PSP by spraying it all through their back end, legs and some spots on their backs by pulling their feathers back. I had to do it solo which went pretty well. I stood in their coop at dusk and as each came through the little auto door I...
Well my sweet Willow got sick again. It has been a tough week for her and I. For the last 3 years when the weather changes and it is her time to molt her chronic respirator junk rears up. Each year it has gotten worse. Last year she ended up in the house for three months because after she...
I have been searching but I can't find a definitive answer. I have a sick chicken that I was thinking about mixing her Baytril in a little honey and flavor to make it better. But for some reason I have it in my head it may not be good for birds. I will get my parrot a honey stick treat every...
After watching many episodes of American Pickers my intrest in making yard out of scrape metal has been rekindled. I plunged and bought a Lincoln AC welder. Just waitng for my outlet to be upgraded and get the rest of my equipment and I will be ARCing. The fun part is collecting the...
Okay lets hear all the crazy things that happen to us. It is very theraputic to laugh at your self. Let me start "Self" do NOT place the diet coke you bought at Tractor supply while checking out in your cart as you travel across a bumpy parking lot.....and then open it in you car wearing a...
Okay, I was out this Sunday gettting pictures for my calender this year and I relized how hard it is to get the chickens head up right. Ussually their butts are in the air and their heads are down or they are running away from you with what looks like a loaded pull-up on waddling side-to-side...
Well my girl willow keeps me on my toes all the time. She was my second hen I got last summer when starting my chicken cappers. She got really sick with a respiratory sickness and we went to the vet. Fast forward>>>>>>> 2 times more with sickness and better with no other chickens getting sick...
Well finally decided on an automatic door. The pullet shut door and it is the bomb. The girls adaptived well. Now the coop door can stay shut and it will stay wormer in their coop for the day and night. I made them a window with hardware cloth for light and a window to incert for winter. I...
Okay need some help with this one. I have seen this chicken walking along side the road by where I work. Nothing but woods so I am sure he/she is on the lose. Well of course I want to save her/him so one night leaving work I saw it roost... then waited until it got darker and was able to get...
I have a 1 1/2 year old frizzle hen who has slowed down in the last few days. Upon examing her she has lost weight and i have had to clean her bottom 2 times. Bad!!!! Her chest bone is now promit and she is letting me hold her. Highly unusual. I think she is internal laying eggs. Her...
I ventured into chickens last year and it has been a great fun learning experience and I love my girls. I now am thinking about a bantam duck to add to my flock. There are some call ducklings aviable now. My question is can I keep one in with my chickens(all hens)? Do I need two? and will...
I need all your expertice to help me identify the sex of these two Barred Rocks. They are 5 weeks this wednesday. I am pretty sure the dark one is a girl because she had black down the front of her legs is very dark and her white spot was smaller and more formed. The lighter one also had the...
Duffee my white silkie who has been brooding for a while just stopped. But now when I want her to brood she doesn't. I work with kids and one of my young friends is doing a project on the life cycle of an egg. He is hatching some in a bator and wanted to do some naturally. Well because...
The girls had to experience their first snow. They where under a different lock-down yesterday because it was sleeting and freezing. They chose to stay under their heat lamps. When I opened the coop door in the morning there was a chicken jam at the door because nobody wanted to come out...
Okay I put the chicken before the egg or is that the egg before the chicken. Has then ever been settled. Any who I have started posting before I introduced my self and got my BYC page done. It is almost done. I have all my girls posted and soon to add my non-chicken family of dogs and cats...
Okay these three SLW are about 12 weeks old. I think I have two girls and one boy in the middle. Her/his waddles are growing alittle faster. They all stand the same size. No spurrs growing. Can't tell by feathers yet. At least my new eyes can't. Give me your expertise eye.