Hen with a very swollen eye! Any ideas what could be the cause and/or treatment? She does have a spot on the back of her comb that looks like she could have been pecked
Hey. I have the opportunity to get one of these boys to go with my ameracauna splash and blue hens and hopefully have more splashes, but it’s so easy to have people post as pure Ameracaunas when they’re actually Easter eggers so I was hoping I could get some second opinions?
I have someone wanting to trade a lavender ameraucana and a few laying hens and a splash maran for one of my ameraucana splashes. I am not particularly needing to get rid of one, but my kids sell eggs and I wouldn’t mind having more laying hens. I was wondering if you all could offer some...
Just had a Hen hatch some babies out yesterday. I setup a nesting box for her on the ground but she has moved into her box that up off the ground and left her chicks on the ground. She still ruffles up when you try to mess with them. We live in Florida so it’s 80’s at night, 90’s during the day...
During my last hatch and hopefully this one, as well, my chicks hatching days have been very spread out. My last hatch the first one hatched on day 20 and the last one hatched on day 25!! Healthy and happy. Thankfully I had been busy and not gotten around to cleaning out the incubator. We ended...
We were out of town last night when our first little one hatched and two more began trying. I got home to realize our humidity had dropped down into the 40’s. I’m not sure how long. Is there anything to do at this point other than bring it back up and hope for the best?
One of our favorite hens went missing for a few days and just wandered back up with a pretty severe injury under wing that already smells pretty rotten. We sprayed the wound down good with vetericyn but I’m wondering if there’s an oral antibiotic at feed stores that may be helpful?
This poor girl got her leg hung under a board. She is about 1 month old. It appears broke or partially detached even, right above the knee joint. It’s swollen as well. Spraying it with poultry wound care and keeping water and feed with in reaching distance of her. Anything else we can do? Is it...