I have a 2 year old Silkie hen “Estelle” that on 1/15/19 got attacked and plucked (not necked, just a lot of feathers). I heard the other chicken yelling for help and I ran outside and stopped the attack, and the past 3 days I noticed that she isn’t eating her mash I make for her every morning...
5 month old silkie was sick with a respiratory infection, while she was quarrantined I noticed that her beak had what I thought was snot build up, so I applied warm cloths to her and took some tweezers to try and pick it off..well it immediately started to bleed so I lifted no more. It stopped...
*Update* just about 2 mins later after typing this I checked on her and there was a poop..it was a large one fairly normal..a little loose and had the calcium spot on it (Ill try and post a pic), and then 30 mins later I took her outside to say hi to her sister and she pooped the creamy stinky...
My Silver Lakenvelder 21 week old hen started laying 8 days ago she was laying one every other day, but today she surprised me and laid one today after laying one yesterday. However after laying today she I noticed a couple of hours later that she was not hanging with the flock instead laying...
I have seen posts on this before but it seems really odd now.
I have 2 Lakenvelder's..one silver (Betty White) and one golden (Lucille Ball), both hatched on 3/29/17..so they are about 26 days old. My Lucille has gotten many feathers, including the tail feathers. Betty has NONE..and I mean...
Howdy from Central Texas!
My name is Sharon and I'm addicted! LOL...I bought a coop, built a fence..then got my chicks..funny because I won't need the coop or the fenced in area for weeks (didn't think of that when I started this adventure). I have never, nor has my immediate family ever...