Normally it doesn’t get lower than 30s or high 20s where I live but it’s going to be 0. I’m worried my chickens will be too cold. Their coop is thin plywood but no insulation. Anything thoughts. They get corn and we do the deep litter method. And we have 8 hens.
Normally I don’t care and have...
My hen Jax, is a 5 year old easter egger and I’m pretty sure has ascites. I’ve been monitoring her and it hasn’t gotten better (as expected) but worse affirming my assumption its ascites. She has all the signs.
I’ve done research on draining it to make her more comfortable. I just wanted to...
I have a 5ish year old easter egger. I’m thinking she has ascites. Its progressed pretty slow but shes starting to walk more upright sometimes or drop her tail. I’ve felt it but it doesn’t like just fluid. It kind of feels like a hacky sac and gritty. Maybe tumors :’( wanted a second opinion...
My 5/6 year old hen has been losing weight and not really eating and I figured it was because she has been sick
This morning I noticed her beak doesn’t shut completely on one side (this is new she wasn’t born with any beak deformities)
I think it’s from overgrowth?
I may try trimming with a...
Hey Everyone! I recently started a blog about owning chickens while being a student and any traffic to my sight is greatly appreciated!
It is at collegechickens.wordpress.com
thank you in advance!
I saw some geese recently and I only own chickens so I don’t know what the body condition of a goose should be. There keel bones seemed pretty prominent. Does anyone have any pictures of what a goose should look live vs an underfed/skinny goose?
I belive one is a african goose
I wanted to get...
last week one of my three month old chicks overnight deteriorated and was seprated from the flock, she was coughing mucus/ blood, and had off and on trouble breathing and died several hours after I originally found her.
Today two of the chicks brood mates have eye discharge in the form of...
I have a 3 month old easter egger and I noticed yesterday she seemed a little slower than the others. This morning she was distancing herself and closing her eyes some, as well as coughing mucus and you can her hear kind of crackle when she breaths.
She is not struggling to breathe or gasping...
I opened up my coop this morning and there were broken eggs in and outside the nesting box and my girls did not want to come down from roosting so I’m guessing it happened recently enough to spook them? It was light outside and there coop was locked so I’m not sure what could have made it in and...