Picked up one of my girls this evening and found her rear end caked with a huge ball of poop stuck on her feathers. I gave her a bath and got all the poop off, but her skin under the caking was red with irritation. Any ideas on what this is, or will I have a dead chicken in the near future?
We have this one Ameraucana that hasn't laid at all since December. We thought it was just molting season and laying off in the winter.
Nothing else seemed wrong with her. Today we saw she had what we originally thought was poop hanging in her back side feathers. I got a wet towel to...
Thanksgiving morning we went out to find our only Buff Orpington dead on the floor of the coop. Today (Saturday), we went out and found our White Silkie Bantam dead too! Background:
We use the deep pine shavings method in the coop and a couple days before, we discovered an ammonia smell. My...
Okay, this is about tumors again....hope someone has an answer! I have a 4 month old Buff Brahma and about 1 month ago we noticed that her right wing looked "higher" than the left. She was dust bathing and flapping her wings well, but my husband thought her wing might be broken. I picked her...
I hope this is the correct forum subject for my question. We read in the "Storey's" book on chicken raising, that we could use pine shavings in our coop. It also said that if we keep the moisture right and turn it every few days or so, that it would compost itself and we would just have to add...
We got our first chicks in June (16), and are now down to 14...found out 2 were roosters at 9 1/2 weeks and they are not allowed in Burbank. We love this website and it has given us so much valuable information. All the different forum topics are great and it's nice to know that we were not...
Well, we started out with 16 chicks, all of which were supposed to be hens. Yesterday at 6am we were awakened to an alarming sound - crowing by one of them. It went on for about 15 minutes. This morning "he" only crowed 3 times and then went silent. We only got them on June 11th, so the...
Hi fellow chicken lovers, we're entering the end of our 7th week, and are within a week of adding big feeders. Now here is our question. We have a large waterer and feeder ready to go. Do we hang these just inside our coop or do we need another hanging feeder in the run? I believe it's just...
My husband and I are now proud (adoptive!) parents of 13 new chicks, 12 different breeds! We are at the end of our first week and are both crazy for our "chicken-time" with the new peepers. Prior to buying our birds, we checked out all the personalities of the different breeds, the egg...