It’s been a heck of a month, I sadly lost three birds whom I was very attached to. It started when Cory, the bantam Rhode Island Red rooster in one of my previous threads, failed to improve from his ailment when a mass in his abdomen was discovered after he passed. I’m grateful that his last...
I figured I’d post about something that isn’t about an ill chicken for once and show off the newest editions to the flock. We incubated some duck eggs and only one hatched so we got the little duckling some friends: a magpie duck, two copper rock marans and a light brahma. They are the cutest...
About 3 weeks ago, I noticed one of our bantam roosters was acting off. His comb isn’t as bright as it usually is and he isn’t 100% of his perky self. He also seems to have trouble pooping. He’ll stand very upright and make strange noises while straining to poop, he does manage to get the poop...
Of course it’s one of the favorites who gets sick… One of the hens, Pesto, started acting off yesterday afternoon. She didn’t want to peck at her scratch but was otherwise acting like her normal self. This afternoon, my sister found her laying on the coops floor. She brought her in and got her...
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The hens are starting to slow their egg production for the winter and so I figured this would be a good time to worm everyone since I’ve noticed some wormy poop recently. Does anyone have any recommendations? I don’t care if there’s an egg withdrawal period so long as it...
I desperately need help! Sweet little Flappy Bird broke her leg today, we suspect she was run over by a car or something because I don’t think a rooster could injure a hen this bad. It’s not a compound fracture thank goodness but it’s up high and kinda hard to splint. We got a splint on her but...
Had a hen (Rosie) go broody in the barn a while ago, we didn’t know where she had her clutch hidden so we chose to wait and see if anything hatched. Well, they did! Out of over 20 eggs only 4 made it out, sadly (Rosie isn’t very big, she’s half bantam Rhode Island Red and half Belgian bearded...
We were gifted a momma silkie with her baby a couple months ago, we were told they were a mother daughter pair but lately I’ve been skeptical that the young bird is actually a cockerel and not a pullet like we thought. What do you guys think?
Hello! Long time no see! One of our hens, a novagen called Nikki, has been acting off for the last couple days her symptoms are: lethargy, weight loss (not a lot but enough for me to notice), wheezing every now and then, and just all around not being herself. Her comb and wattles are nice and...
Hello! This coming spring I would like to get some more bantams as a mink attack earlier this summer left us with only one silkie hen and the bantam Rhode Island Red rooster. I really miss the little guys and the Bantie coop feels so empty since it only has the silkie and her chick. I’ve never...
I hope there’s some horse people on here that are more experienced than me so I can get some answers to a couple questions I have. Background information: I’m a sophomore in high school, I’ve been riding all my life. I’ve ridden many horses from green broke ponies (that didn’t end well I was 5...
Hello! We put two eggs under one of the broody hens three weeks ago with the hopes that we’d be able to get a chick out of one of the favorite hens who passed a day earlier. Well fast forward three weeks, these eggs were due to hatch yesterday and they didn’t, at first I thought, “Oh, they’ll...
Hello everyone! I’m a longtime lurker who finally decided to join. My family has about 30-40 ish chickens and 4 ducks, everyone has names of course! We have quite the hodgepodge of breeds everything from Rhode Island reds to Orpingtons to Andalusians to barnyard mixes! Some of our birds are...