I have a 5 month old silkie chick who's been having some issues with her right foot. I've had my eye on it for a while now, since she's been kind of wobbly, but today when I went outside to check on her, she had a pretty bad limp. We've checked and rechecked her foot and leg and haven't seen or...
We have two 4 month old silkie chicks who have been dealing with lice for the past month. We have tried diatomaceous earth and poultry spray weekly, for over aontj, to get rid of the infestation, and it has only abated a little. As these babies are young, we've been hesitant to use anything...
I recently had a 6 month old partridge cochin cockeral who had a severe case of curled toe disorder. Or at least that's what we think it was. It started when he was two months old in his left foot. I had noticed he was sitting down more for about a week but I had never heard of curled toe...
So I have an 8 week old partridge cochin cockeral who I've noticed is having some issues. Lately, he hasn't been standing up and walking very much. Whenever I go to check on them, he's always sitting down either on the perch, next to it, or more recently, next to the food while his sisters are...
So I have a road island red hen who is around 2 years old, and she has a wacky problem. Every now and then, she'll start to run around in a circle, and then will take off running as fast as possible. She doesn't seem to register where she's going and will run repeatedly into fences, shove...
This little one is almost 6 weeks old. My mom didn't read the breed tag when she bought her, and so I did some searching and am pretty sure she/he is a partridge cochin. I've been trying to figure out if little Zelda here is a hen or a rooster, but I've never had this breed before and most of...
We just got some new chicks yesterday and one of the buff brahma chicks we got seems to maybe have some eye issues. She's probably around 2 or 3 days old, and always has at least one eye closed, sometimes both. Her eyes aren't inflamed and don't look like they have anything wrong with them. The...
Hello! We are looking for a few healthy Mille Fleur Calico Cochin Bantam hens for my daughter's Mille Fleur Calico Cochin Bantam roo, as he is in need of his own girls! In the event we cannot locate any, we would be looking to re-home another beautiful roo of the same breeding to someone who...
So our first batch of chicks from our bantam roo hatched today and the very last one started pipping between 2 and 6 o'clock this morning and has a hole but the membrane is still covering the opening and the chick isn't doing anything. One of the chicks that hatched today cracked the egg...
Does anybody know how to house roosters? I ask because one of our mille/fleur boys keeps getting beat up by the hens or his brother? Thank you for any info. :)
Hi guys! I am new to byc and I wanted to ask a few questions. First of all, though, I got chickens in 2015 and absolutely adore them. We have 13 chickens. 3 bantam roos, 1 bantam hen and the rest are standard hens. Last year we bought 2 old English game bantam chicks and one of them happened to...