We've got 3 baby chicks, 2-1/2 weeks old, being raised by our bantie surrogate mom. One of them got stuck in some fencing and pulled skin off one thigh at the torso, about an inch or more in diameter. I sprayed it with vetrimycin and then blucote. Mom and her siblings immediately picked at it...
I'm worried about one of my Red Stars (AKA Alices). She's making a distinct odd noise, as if it were on an exhalation, but it seems too slow to be breathing. It isn't a crow, or an attempted crow. it's more frequent than regular cooing. No sign of injury or trauma, attack, poops normal, no...
I've had one of these battery operated pop door openers for a couple of years and i'd like to take it off batteryespecially the timersince i now have electricity to the coop. Has anyone made that conversion? Thanks!
beautiful egg! here's what i do. I'm in a suburb and when i have eggs available, i put out a little sign that neighbors and friends know to look for when they drive by. I leave a doz or 2 or 3 in an ice chest on the front porch, they leave me $4 in an envelope. Here's my answers to your great...
but...but....but (this is how i feel when my dr says certain pains are "age-related.") She's only a year old! i think it's the GL Wyandottes. i guess it's a better reply than disease. sigh. is age the only cause? they're so ... young!
one of my (7) hens has been laying eggs with a soft spot on the rounded end. They all have oyster shell available, it's not a very large egg size, and it's just a tiny spot, size of an infant's finger nail. It appears a bit darker there, and you can break through just pushing into it with...
really, FireTigeris--i won't laff. promise. tell me why to trim the head pouffe?
i'm going out again after dark to make sure they don't have buggies. then i thought maybe they were afraid, since it's just the 2 of 'em. so i put a mirror out there, like people do with, y'know, OTHER pet birds...
no, now i think she's sick, but i'm not sure it isn't mental. i'm still having to "encourage" if not force-feed. she's with a chick and the chick seems healthy but i'm worried about her being indoors and not eating enough. I'll go look for mites tonight. only symptoms are unwillingness to leave...
the answer to: "How ya feelin'?"
"Oh, able to sit up and take nourishment."
o please keep this thread going. Ain't heard some 'a these in a 'coons age!
Ooh, i LOVE "water my butt and call me a biscuit"!
On accents-- we were making fun of a guard at a Canadian post in WA state (dumb as a post, bless his heart). He had asked a lady where did she "derive her Canadian passport." The grammar offended her. However, if she'd had a good southern...
trim her head fluff? really? ok, going out with sugar water.
so, she will be so disturbed at having a 'bad hair day' she'll get up and stomp down to the hairdressers?
I've got a silkie who i let go broody last week when i was out of town. she's very maternal; she came to me with one chick, maybe 7 weeks old (?) and still tucks the chick under her. My housesitter isn't very chicken-savvy, but she told me that the hen was sitting on eggs. Food and water are...
I've just acquired a mom and chick bantam silkies. They have never been vaccinated, and appear to be in good health. Maybe the mom has a little diarrhea. I've started them on pedialyte, mostly because of the heat. The mom's feet are very weird; toes kinda all over the place, one long spiraly...
It's about the hen who takes over the job of crowing. This may be too silly. Has anybody ever tried a recording (quieter than the original) of a roo crowing, to shut-up the silly bird? It is definitely a hen, she lays eggs. and we're down to 2 girls from 5 thanks to a fox pair this spring, so...
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