I have a 5 week old chick and recently I have noticed him/her having trouble walking/balancing. It's legs have grown kind of bowed and her feet point in. She can move around but it's slow, fumbles and trips over her own feet. Is it too late for me to try and fix this problem and how would I go...
I walked outside the other day waiting to be greeted by my free range flock and found it strangely quiet. finally I hear a chicken call out to me ( a few min's after I walked by) some of my girls had been hiding under the deck and were very reluctant to come out. I knew something was wrong and...
My absolute favorite hen daisy passed away last night :( she was a 1 yr old beautiful black Langshan. I noticed on Sunday she seemed a little off balance when you would put her down, she was out and about eating etc but didn't seem like herself.... Then yesterday afternoon I noticed that she was...
I have a pair of black Langshan's, the female wants nothing to do with the Roo and avoids him at all cost. I also have another Roo ( different breed) that is the boss and doesn't let him near any of his hens...' So my Langshan Rooster only has 1 girlfriend and I feel bad for her! He is just...
I have 4 girls with sneezing, rattles etc.... it started with 1 (a few days after standing out in freezing rain) and quickly spread! I isolated 4 hens two days ago and started them on duromycin 10 yesterday ( its all I could get a hold of here) the remaining 7 chickens havent showed any signs...
here's my problem... I got some fertile eggs for my broody buff overe the summer, she hatched out 2 chicks and both turned out to be Beautiful Rumpless Roo's! I never really wanted roo's but thought I brought them here so I need to keep them. They are now a little under 6 months old and are not...