My hen Sweetie has sour crop. I have tried giving yogurt (unpasteur), garlic, ACV, and causing her to vomit. She is not getting any better - this mroning I actually saw her vomit just while scratching around so maybe even worse. I have to go for a work trip for 1 week so I need to help her asap...
Hi, my little austro Sweetie has been making a weird head movement - like twisting it and elongating her neck? Sort of like how a sassy woman would shake her head while telling someone off if that makes sense. She is eating/drinking ok and I feel like I have seen her do this before but not over...
Hello - my austrolorp Gigi, who is almost 2.5 years old, is acting strangely. She continuously lies down, even when I let the hens out to forage for a couple hours, she will go with them but then just lie down under a tree. She eats but not much and without much enthusiasm, although she has...
Just looking for everyone's two cents. My barred rock Laverne, who is usually the sweetest bird, lowest on the totem pole, vey gentle and cheerful is acting weirdly. Last evening she was walking around the run, straining as if she was going to sit down, but then after about 5 minutes of this...
This is not for now but for the future event that I need to put down one of my 6 hens. I cannot do it, nor can my husband, and I dont want to have to take one of my girls to the vet and traumatize her (and pay a ton). Just looking to have someone on hand nearby I can call on if the need arises...
Hi Everyone, I have 6 hens (3 barred rock, 3 austros) who are a year old and due to some issues with predators I was thinking of adding a rooster for protection (also I just kind of want more chickens lol). But I will get a male chick and a female chick as I don't think it is fair to get just a...
I live in Maine and back up onto some thick woods. I have had my hens for a year and this morning, for the first time, saw -- just by chance looking out the window -- a fox creeping toward my run. I screamed bloody murder and it took off but my question is should my run have a roof on it? It is...
Hi there - last night when I was checking my hens - when their behinds were basically eye level - I noticed that my 3 plymouth rocks have poop clumped around their bums. Their vents are not blocked and look fine though. I also have 3 austrolorps, who also have pretty fluffy bottoms, who do not...
Looking for someone very reliable and with chicken experience to come 2x a day to our house in July to feed/water and let the girls in and out of their coop for 10 days in July. Will pay $15-20 day. Gorham-Wyndham-Standish area of Maine. Ideally looking for someone who lives near and can do this...
Looking for a single male gosling to raise with some chicks in mid May? We live in southern Maine and would rather pick up a local gosling instead of ordering one online.