Hello I feel like I've been to this forum so much lately.
My flock had an accident yesterday afternoon, my mom's husky pup about 5 months ish old got into my pen and mauled 13 out of 20 of my Chickens. 2 pasted over night due to injuries I couldn't help. However o have a more pressing issue...
I sadly just lost a majority of my flock. Don't wanna discuss it to much as it's still raw however my mother now owes me some birds this spring.
I've had many breeds before, my favorites being Brahmas and Speckled Sussex. I liked their friendly manners and goofy moments. I was wondering if any...
I went out to give my chickens so treats after returning from a long vacation sat down and noticed bugs crawling on me they looked like a tinier version of feas almost?
Id noticed feather lost but thought it was molting, or my roosters we being too rough and ive always have feather issues on...
So in my family im known as the crazy chicken lady and recently this has led people just giving me stuff which over hasn't been bad however on of my aunt's dropped of an assortment of things from a client that had recently got rid of her Geese.
Most of the stuff I knew and recognized like feed...
Hello I posted on here the other day about this problem but no one responded so I'm back with more information to try again.
I have a hen, about 2 years old, with a prolapsed vent. I have given her multiple Epsom salt baths to keep it clean, I couldn't push it back in or even try because there...
Hello! So I've had some issues with my flock lately and this seems to be the cherry on top. This hen is about 2 years old not sure what this is I thought it was a prolapsed vent and then some other illness with like yellow white runny poop cant remember the name right now. But I'm really not...
Hello so this is my first time hatching ducklings (I bought the eggs from someone local with ducks) and I track the time and when I got home tonight and went to get them ready for lock down two eggs were pipped. One was moving and kicking and another wasn't moving from what I could tell and had...
Hello, I have a chick that hatched this afternoon and hadn't been able to check on them as I hatched them out for family and didn't have a spot for them. But when I looked in I saw blood on the paper towel lining the incubator. When I looked further it was from the chick I haven't dealt with...
Hello so I have a idian runner duckling (probably about a week old?) And she's been having issues with morning almost like she's chocking/having a hard time swallowing. She can breathe but often is struggling, she'll be acting normal, peeping and drinking and just looking at me and them will...
So I posted about one of my chickens, a hen, that had a leg issues it came out of now where around 2 ish weeks old, we tried to treat it for splayed leg but whatever we did, didn't seem to help or she'd peak off the band aids after healing a tiny bit but now I don't know what to do about it. It...
My dad picked up 3 runner ducks cause he used to have some as a kid and we had chickens already plus 3 week old chicks in our brooder and chicks about to hatch. right now i'm deal with them spilling water all over and soaking the shavings wondering if there's much we can do about it we have put...
So I three weeks ago hatched out a batch of chicks from my flocks eggs, Everything when fine until week two when one of my Australop chick has a bad walk assumed it was Splayed/Spraddle Leg like one of my chicks had the year before. So my mom and me tried rubber bands but those weren't seeming...
My hen munchkin who was born this summer has been acting strange, when we found her outside a day or two ago(she was acting weird the previous week), she wasn't doing well and looked like she was cold or dehydrated/hungry. So we brought her in got her warmed up feed and watered. Last night she...
Hi! so I'm new here and me and my family keep having martins kill our chickens, normally we find them and get rid of them by now or our barn cats do.
We got a rooster last spring and he seemed to keep our hens safe until he was killed two days ago then a Brahma and one of our Speckled Sussex...