Hello all, I had a scary moment with my rooster today, I noticed him flapping about on the ground and his head and neck winding all over the place and stretching out backwards the he collapsed on the ground by the time I got to him, I picked him up and felt his neck and I was sure I could feel a...
Hello fellow chicken lovers.
I am talking about only silkies here.
I have an original flock of 1 rooster and 2 hens, and 1 of those hens has 2, 2 week old chicks.
I also have 11, 6 week old chicks that I hatched in incubator.
They have been outside in a fenced off coop of their own for the past...
Hello hello, I have 2 silkie hens and 1 silkie rooster. They're all 1 year old. They stopped laying over winter and 1 has just started laying again now (late winter in Australia). I have collected her last 3 eggs because she wasn't sitting on them going broody.
My question is should I just...
Hello,
I was given a hen by a friend, that had been attacked by her dog. I sprayed her wound with antiseptic spray that was pink. That was almost 2 months ago and her underside is still pink.
In my existing flock I have 1 silkie rooster, and 2 silkie hens, and now with the pink one, makes 3...
Hi Chicken lovers.
My friends chicken was bitten by its sweet border collie that has never bitten a chicken before.
She now has a wound just above her vent, it's round, about the size of a fingernail, and very open. It was crawling with maggots today when I had a look at it.
I washed her in...