My Wyandotte pecked my special Silkie's eye (it was found lost amongst dutch booted bantams at TSC, and it doesn't have any feet feathers unlike any Silkies I've ever seen), and she's gotten an infection for almost half a year.
I took her to the doctor and spent a ton of time and money on...
2 year old silkie hybrid with weird white stuff in the eye. I am not sure worms I’ve tried removing it with a q-tip (though it definitely looks like worms). It’s inside a membrane of some sort and I’m not sure how to remove the puss/possible worm/infection. My guess is a possible scratch of some...
My mom just gave me a hodgepodge of different chickens to add to my flock.
I've just noticed one of them is a "Dutch Booted Bantam" which is described as "takes work but worth it." If anyone with experience has any advice on how I can better it's life, that would be awesome. It's the smallest...
It's been raining for a few days and I think either on Easter or the day before Easter somebody laid an egg on the far side of their 40 ft long chick run away from the coop. Anyone know why this is happening and if the egg is still any good? It's been raining like cray so I'm astonished it's not...
I've found that my chickens really enjoy Chopin, particularly Andante Spianato (an optomsitic piece written by a teenage Chopin before Russia's invasion of Poland). They tend to come closer to the speaker when I play it. It also helps with eggs, as they produce on a daily basis when I am suck at...
My mom gave me some chickens a few months ago, and they came to live with me in the city. They have a large portion of the yard to roam, and we live near a big park with other wild animals which is not great because of hawks and wild birds with bugs on them. They do get bugs on them as well but...