Heya;
One of our hens is acting really weird. For the past few days, she hasn't been eating much, and had a bit of trouble passing an egg a few days ago. All of today she's been sitting in one place (usually she hops the fence and free ranges all over our yard!), and when I just went out to see...
Oh god...
Our previously three-legged chicken (she ain't so good lookin') now has a prolapsed vent. It's really awful. We've cleaned it to the best of our ability, but there's still a lot of blood on it. I put blu-kote around it, because it was so awful and bloody. Today, we put witch hazel on...
Heya;
I just thought I'd update to say that she ain't so good lookin' (our three legged darling) now only has 2 legs! Her third leg fell two days ago! She's doing pretty okay, and has grown a bit. She's still at the bottom of the pecking order, but that's to be expected. However, I have (yet...
Okay, so I have yet anther problem:
One of our chickens has been losing feathers from the top of her back, by the base of her tail. At first, it wasn't so bad and I thoght it was just a moult. But this was about a month ago, and recently, it's gotten worse. The other hens are pecking at her...
I feel like my chickens are insane.
I live in Southern Ontario in Canada, so it gets pretty cold here in the winter. My housemates and I just began insulating our coop with this blue foam insulation a friend of ours found...However, we've put all the insulation up, but didnt have time to put...
Heya;
My favourite bird is limping! She's had a series of complications (she has a third leg which is hanging off of her body and a second vent and a crooked tail...), but the past few weeks she's been doing pretty well! Even asserting herself when one of the others tries to chase her away from...
Hiya;
I'm a relatively new chicken owner (1 week today!) with what seems to be an overwhelming amount of problems! Just today I noticed that one of my chickens has no more feathers on her breast/chest area...She was taking what I thought was a dirt bath, but then I picked her up and there were...
Heya folks;
I'm kind of new to this; I just got 5 laying hens from an organic chicken farm this saturday. Here's the deal: the farmer had a chicken with 3 legs that had been a little traumatized by the other chickens (they're free range on his farm, but it's still a lot of chickens, so it was...