I have them on medicated chick starter and I noticed bloody stools yesterday. I have been reading conflicting info.... I HAVE Corid also but I can't find POSITIVE info as if I should use this INSTEAD of the medicated feed or use BOTH. If I should take their medicated feed away, I have no...
I have already vaccinated my chickens for fowl pox but since it was the first time I ever tried to do this, I am sure I didn't do it right the first time. That was 2 and half weeks ago. I could not find ANY info how long the vaccine in the fridge would last since it says to do it again if it...
My chicken Muppet had either an eye injury or fowl pox. I have taken her to the vet 2 times in 10 days for it. She is on topical and oral antibiotics. Just about 10minutes ago, she started running and crashing around in her house. She is a house hen and I have her in a indoor rabbit cage...
I broke down and finally put 2 eggs in my incubator from my girl Puddles. She is ten years old and this is the third year we have had a gander, a brown Chinese. She is a white Chinese and I have heard if you cross the types, that females will be white and males will be brown. Is this true??? I...
I broke down and finally put 2 eggs in my incubator from my girl Puddles. She is ten years old and this is the third year we have had a gander, a brown Chinese. She is a white Chinese and I have heard if you cross the types, that females will be white and males will be brown. Is this true...
My goose Puddles started out with a large clutch of eggs and my male I think accidently stepped on almost all of them. There were 15 and I discovered they were down to 5 I put him in a different night pen next to hers. She has been at it since June 7th. When do you think they would be due if...
My goose Puddles started out with a large clutch of eggs and my male I think accidently stepped on almost all of them. There were 15 and I discovered they were down to 5 I put him in a different night pen next to hers. She has been at it since June 7th. When do you think they would be due if...
My goose Puddles started out with a large clutch of eggs and my male I think accidently stepped on almost all of them. There are three now. I put him in a different night pen next to hers. She has been at it since June 7th. When do you think they would be due if they are still alive? I...
I had known my chick had a runny bum for 2 weeks. I have been washing his bum and drying it and making sure nothing was sticking to his butt. I had been giving him the probiotics and things like scrambled eggs... Thinking everything was OK. Then yesterday I saw him with is eyes closed and...
I put my Silkie eggs in the night of the 9th just after midnight (so actually the 10th) and one is already pipping and working hard. I noticed the other one next to it has pipped what looks too low. I had the eggs big end up the past couple of days. What do I do? Can I help? What time frame...
We are moving to a 4 acre mini micro farm I just bought and I want a new coup. I am thinking of a night coup that can both hold my 2 geese and have an area for my Silkies. I will probably need to keep them apart at night. I am already stocking up on cloth wire. I plan on using chain link for...
These hatched yesterday. They are three different colors. The moms are all Easter Eggers and came from green eggs. Dad was a big mean purebred Barred Rock. Of COURSE the one with the stripe (Stripe be thy name) is the leader and first born.
My Chinese goose Puddles has laid a nestfull of POSSIBLY fertile eggs (if my new male goose did his job) and yesterday she wanted to stay on the nest. Today she was next to the nest, not wanting to get up. I don't know the way to tell if she is eggbound or just going broody. I MADE her scoot up...
My Chinese goose Puddles has laid a nestfull of POSSIBLY fertile eggs (if my new male goose did his job) and yesterday she wanted to stay on the nest. Today she was next to the nest, not wanting to get up. I don't know the way to tell if she is eggbound or just going broody. I MADE her scoot...
I work on a private island (4000 acres) and I heard that the Organic Farm just got some Frizzle hens so I happily went to see them. Once there I was told our dear favorite mama duck Mrs. Eleanor (the ducks were Eleanor (who at first we thought was a female but turned out to be a male, and his...
My Silkie biddies are getting nice head poofs. I was wanting to find some sort of non-irritating product to use as mousse to help them see. I was thinking of baby lotion or baby sunblock. Not sure right now. Any ideas on something that would not irritate their eyes AND not collect alot of dirt?
My two week old chick went from bouncing around in the pen in the bathroom with her silkie hatch mates to head down and not wanting to do much. This chick is the dominant chick and was full of life last night... HELP!!!!!!
Boy I feel I dodged a bullet this morning. My poor club footed Silkie chick Minion who is going thru so much already had a human hair wrapped tightly around his GOOD LEG. I just happened to see a tiny bit hanging off that foot when I picked him up to check him. If I had just checked on him in...
My little Minion who is suffering from a turned in foot and spraddle legs and is now wearing corrective shoes and leg braces, is unable to feed or water himself. He is only 3 days old this morning. He has worn the shoes since the night of Jan 12th. He does seem to be getting better but I...
This was the last Silkie to hatch and he had a hard time. I had to score his egg with a file for him to pip. Pretty sure he would not have come out had I not. Anyway his right leg is much more turned in that the left and he was just sliding around and not walking. He was just born today mid...