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I've got her inside so she'll be warm. I just put some neosporin and gauze on the sore. It's way up under her wing. I can't really figure a way to keep it off of it so I thought the gauze might protect it some. Will it be ok to leave it like that over night or should I take it off?

A dog from down the road just grabbed my favorite chicken out of my flower bed while I was giving my baby a bottle. My husband chased the dog home and brought Daisy back. She is still alive but there is a pretty big wound under her wing. She is limping (if you could even call it that) on that...

A dog from down the road just grabbed my favorite chicken out of my flower bed while I was giving my baby a bottle. My husband chased the dog home and brought Daisy back. She is still alive but there is a pretty big wound under her wing. She is limping (if you could even call it that) on that...

The heat is helping! She is a little perkier and holding her head up for the first time today! She can't peck yet, but we squirted some cooked blood liver (uh . . . yummy?) down her. Maybe there's hope after all. I went and dusted the coop and run pretty well. We have really high winds...

It is supposed to get down to 17 degrees tonight. Is there any chance that it will freeze the mites out?

I really think she is too far gone. The sugar water we tried to give her just ran back out of her mouth. She alive still, but feels sort of stiff. What can I do about my coop and other birds? I'll dust them and the coop floor, but I feel like they must be everywhere.

My silkie has acted funny for the past few days. I was afraid my bigger chickens had been picking on her because we've had bad weather and they've had to stay in their run a lot more. This morning, she didn't come out when I opened the door and I found her laying on the coop floor. I scooped...

Do you have a pet carrier? It would probably hold two little silkies, especially just for a weekend. For that matter, you could probably let them sleep in a cardboard box on its side if your run is secure. If your silkies aren't used to sleeping there, however, they probably won't go in on...

I keep mine in the run.

I think so. I have one that looks just like that, and she's my favorite. Her eggs are light blue and huge even though she is a bit smaller than my others.

My mom's silkies walk up a ramp to get onto the roost at night. I think they naturally want to be close to the other chickens. I sit my little on the roost every night because, if I don't, she gets right under the others to sleep and gets pooped on .

My mom lives on over 20 acres and her guineas still range all the way to the neighbor's place. You would need to keep them in run and definately give them feed in a yard your size. As for wing clipping, we've never done it. We don't eat the eggs either but, if you like duck eggs, you might...

I always make a point to keep any food out of the coop so as not to attract any nocturnal critters inside. (As if several big fat chickens weren't tastey enough!)

Do they free range? Where I live, certain grasses excrete a sticky sort of sap that makes the dogs and horses look very messy. Maybe your chickens are getting into a similar something.

Could you set up at least a temporary run attached to the coop so that that would be their only choice for a while? Or just shut them in the coop for a few days so they get the idea that it is home.

I wonder if these theories apply to humans because both myself and the two other pregnant women I know are having boys.

Hawks used to occasionally get our birds before we started keeping them in a run. One actually got a bantam rooster with my mom not 10 feet away. I let my chickens out for a few hours most days because they love it so much, but I know there always a chance of losing one.

Thanks everyone. I'll give it a shot this evening.

I agree. You've got a little rooster.