Hi All, i posted this earlier but hopefully someone will read it this time.
A couple of weeks ago we noticed one of the my hens was hiding behind the bushes keeping to herself. She was not eating and her crop was very much enlarged and if we massaged it at all she would vomit alot of liquid...
Hi All,
A couple of weeks ago we noticed one of the my hens was hiding behind the bushes keeping to herself. She was not eating and her crop was very much enlarged and if we massaged it at all she would vomit alot of liquid and bit of grass up. We took her to the vet the next day and it turns...
Hi there,
yesterday night my chicken was having trouble laying her egg. We could see it coming but it was almost as if it was stuck. As a last resort I lubricated my finger and tried to help get the egg out. What I found was a small piece of shell and then a whole lot of clear fluid. The Fluid...
hi there,
yesterday i noticed that one of my chickens had a small white bump on her beak. its hard and not very big and a little white. im not sure how long she has had it but it would be less then a week.
it hasnt grown or spread. and i have inspected her eyes and feet for other bumps but...
hi there!!
my chickens eggs for the past couple of says have been incredibly deformed in the sense that the outer shell is very crinkled and not the usual smooth outer layer it should be.
is this due to stress? weather? illness?
i have been stressed alittle as of late is she picking up on it...
sooo it is just turning spring here in melbourne and we are just coming out of a paticuarly cold winter. and the weather is changing quite alot as it does in spring.
anyhows. my chickens have BOTH stopeed laying for the past four days. im not TOO alarmed as it is both of them and they are...
my chickens miss laying one day, and then lay a much larger egg the next day. and its only just started lately.. it is winter over here and pretty cold... is thiis normal?
this morning when i went out to the chickens one of my chickens was trying to lay and egg but was sitting there making a horrible grunting noise.
I have never heard them making this noise and now i am a bit worried.
could there be something wrong?
its been raining and i went to go lock up my chickens for the night but i found the door had closed on them and they were sitting on the roof of their house saturated and upset.
they werent happy and i immediatly ran them inside and dried them off and warmed them up for at least 20 minutes...
a couple of my chickens eggs have had different things on the outside. at one stage they had alot of brown dots on it and anothe covered in white chalky type stuff..
does this have anythign to do with their diet or health or what coz i am a little unsure.
thanks!
hey there,
i have an old battery hen and she is beautiful.
but i suspect that her beak has been clipped.
we have had her for a couple of months now.
and her beak is looking rather crooked.
do we need to keep clipping her beak?
or will it fix itself now?
another question.
my chickens also insist on laying in the same box. even though they both have their own box.
niether seem to have a problem with it?
does anyone know why this might be happening?
one of my chickens has been incredibly vocal as of late. she has just started laying a week or two ago but doesnt seem to be broody or anything.
is this normal? its just that my other chicken is not even half as noisy.
and if not what is it all about?
for anybody who can help...
about 3- 4 months ago we adopted two baby chicks and both were sexed to be girls . It wasnt untl last week that one of them started t crow and we realised that our pearly girl was a bit of a cross dresser and was actually pearly the boy. So, as we couldnt keep a...