Please see the attached picture of my FOUR week old Silkie, "Tiny!" She is in a brooder with 6 ONE week old Silkie chicks, along with another of the 4 week old Silkie chicks that were bought and raised right in the same brooder along with Tiny and 15 other of their "chick-mates!"
As you can...
Please see the attached 2 pictures showing my LITTLE Silkie chick, which I've named "Tiny." She (I know I haven't a clue if it's a boy or girl, but since I take "her" out and love on her every day, I've decided that it's a she, just because she's so darn adorable!
In the first picture, you see...
I treated my Easter Eggers Rhode Island Reds with Ivermectin, 3 times (7 days apart), for a wild bird mange mite. I was successful in catching and treating all of the flock EXCEPT for ONE Rhodie on her 3rd treatment today. She just kept escaping me. We've sprayed their coops with 10% bleach...
I have a small flock of 6 Easter Egger pullets, which are now just starting to lay their eggs. I raised them from day old chicks, and they all look quite different, so I certainly can tell them apart. I understand that Easter Eggers will only lay one color for its lifetime. My question is: IS...
My Rhode Island Red Rooster is 20 weeks old. He looks and acts normal. He is crowing, beginning to breed his ladies (same age) and in all other aspects, acting fine. But we noticed when he began to crow, that at the end of each crow, he sounded like a baby cat, or like he was sucking in air...
We have 8 Easter Eggers, and noticed that 1 of them had her feathers along the base of her tail all askew. So I looked carefully and saw this strange yellow skin color, that is also a thickened, and in some places a bit scabby. Also, the feathers in that area are broken off and/or growing...