What can be done to help aid the recovery of a hen sick with mites (in addition to killing mites?)
Discovered one of our hens has a bad case of black mites. She’s obviously not feeling well, her comb is pale and she seems lethargic and anemic. We’ve already cleaned out coop, bought the ultra...
Our rooster Elvis is about 2 years old now and since he’s a bantam, he has weird feet. He seemed to have sometimes had a limp when he walks but it never stopped him from getting around. We noticed that one of his toes is all swollen with a weird scab on the bottom. (See photos). As you can see...
We special ordered a White faced black Spanish from a local feed store, but the feed store mixed up our special ordered chicks and gave us something different because were pretty sure she is not a white faced black Spanish. She has a white chin like other White Faced chicks, but the giveaway is...
We got a new batch of chicks about 2 months ago, one of which a Scicilian Buttercup “hen.” She is almost 2 months old. In the last couple days, she has started a very funny crow as her voice changes. We are worried she is a rooster. However, she has the speckled coloring of a scicilain buttercup...