My hen had been laying brown eggs just fine until recently. The color started to fade, going from that pretty brown to an off tan-grey. Her stool seems to be liquid and today's latest egg shattered in my hand. It did have a yolk.
Can anyone offer advice on what ails her and a cure?
We were driving by a Tyson processing plant, and there was a lone escapee chicken in the front yard by the side of the road. Long story short, we became the owners of a pet chicken.
I looked around at various designs, and loved the one someone had fashioned out of an armoire. So I went to...
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Carpe chicken is eating, drinking and even coming out of her cardboard box to keep me and my wife company. Tough bird.
I went purchased an end table with doors, I don't know the name for these things, it is like a tiny armoire. Anyway, I cut a chicken...
She is not drinking. I have a birdbath in front of the cardboard box she's in, but she has not yet left the box. I had thought she would at least have left the box by now.
Thanks for the scrambled egg idea, that sounds like a winner. I will try and get some in her later today.
I am...
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We found an 'escapee' from the local Tyson plant, and now have a pet chicken. She's pretty traumatized, and is little more than a giant chick, still making the peeping sounds. Who knows what she has gone through!
I have her as comfortable as I can, but I notice she is not...
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Does anyone know about the wet 'vent' thing?
What to do about her weight/balance/breeding problem?
I will try to post pictures of Carpe tomorrow.