Honey (nearly 4 months old) used to have a plastic leg band on but about a week ago, it got caught and scraped up her leg as seen in the attached picture. We obviously immediately removed the band and I cleaned the sore as well as I could using sterile saline solution. I didn't know what else...
We got four chicks from our local Cal-Ranch store 7 weeks ago. There's supposed to be a buff Orpington, an Americauna, and two brown Sex-links. As they've grown, I can tell that Caramel is definitely a Buff Orpington (we've had two of them previously). Nugget is the Americauna. My biggest...
I was given my first chicken, Butterscotch, a buff orpington, last year when my sister was doing construction on her house (they moved into a rental while the work was done). Butterscotch's flockmates didn't survive a predator while my sister couldn't be there to protect the birds, so she was...
I have a couple of honeysuckle bushes in my yard that grow berries in August. I didn't think that they were close enough to my chicken run for my girls to reach but I was wrong since I found a runner branch that had been pulled through the wire of the run wall and all the berries and leaves...
So, I have two chickens, both buff orphingtons that were re-homed to me about 2 months apart this summer when they were the only survivors of their individual flocks being attacked by predators. They get along very well and are usually within a couple feet of each other in the yard during the...
My sister had a small flock of chickens in her woodland-adjacent backyard. A bobcat got one of the four and scattered the others, but the three not killed came back over the next day or so. The hens were only about a year old at that time. When my sister and her husband decided to remodel...