So I have a buff orphington chicken that has recently become broody. She is even being broody with no eggs. She has started to pull out her stomach and chest feathers, and I fear she may get too cold at night. I am in NH, and it is gets to about -5 degrees fahrenheit at night. I have a 100 watt...
I have a 20 week old Buff Orphington that has swallowed a small metal nut. I am afraid if it will cause Hardware disease. I thought about inducing the chicken to throw up its crop contents, since this happened recently and should still be in the crop, but I do not know if it could somehow rip...