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Thanks for your help. She seems to be doing ok although I haven't inspected the wound for a few days. I gave up on the ointment when she kept insisting on dust bathing. She doesn't seem to know she's been hurt so I've just been leaving her alone to heal. The only thing I'm wondering about is...

Should I try to wash her or just keep applying the anti biotic ointment? Any other suggestions?

So it's the middle of the night and I hear a terrible squawking in the back yard. I run out to the coop (sadly left open but surrounded by an electronet fence) and find my 2 hens very upset and a handful of feathers on the floor. My husband and I brought both birds into the house to examine...

We haven't ever dewormed them. I really don't know much about deworming. How often, how to do it without strong medications etc. Any suggestions?

Yikes!!!! We thought that she was better (although with slightly abnormal poo). Then this afternoon when our 6 year old farmer boy went to gather eggs he brought back the dead body of his fluffy feathered pet. Now we're wondering if there's anything we need to do to prevent sickness from...

By this afternoon she looked like herself again. After spending the day in a big ol' box in the living room I sounded like a hospital nurse and told her that she could go home once I saw that she was up and walking around, eating, drinking and pooping normally. Once she managed to do this we...

Thanks for your input. We brought her in the house tonight and fixed up a big box with shavings, food and water. I held her on my lap for a while and checked for any other symptoms. No sign of an egg near the vent. Her crop was full but soft and she has no mites/bugs. While on my lap she...

I compared how her crop feels to the others and it seems like it feels the same so I guess it's ok. What should I be feeling for when I check her belly to see if she is egg bound? Thanks for your advise.

Our buff orpington seems to have something wrong but we don't know what. She's just standing in the run while the 2 other girls are happily pecking and scratching all around her. We let her out of the run for some free range time in the back yard this afternoon and noticed that she didn't...

Quote: Thanks! What do you think I should bath her with and how long would she need to be quarantined? I believe that Santa is bringing a bag of mealworms for her and in the mean time I'll go cook up some eggs.

For Christmas my son is asking Santa for a white chicken. Well, finding one for sale around here this time of year was difficult and the only one that Santa's helpers could find was a while leghorn who spent her life in a cage. Her belly feathers are missing (presumably from sleeping on wire)...

We are now down to two girls (about 5 months old) and they LOVE the neighborhood. However I don't like chasing them through it or worrying about the friendly relations that we're pushing the boundaries of. We have an electronet fence that is 4' high with the coop in the middle. I have clipped...

We put our little girls (5 weeks and 9 weeks) outside tonight in their little coop on our front porch. Until now they've been in the house which has been between 70 and 80 degrees with no light in their coop. Since it's supposed to be in the 50's overnight I hooked up a light with a 100w bulb...

I think after her morning of confinement while the young ones ran around Coco has chilled out. We tried a supervised playdate like you suggested this afternoon and after spending the day watching the "chick-o-vision" we concluded that they are now all living peacefully together and even all...

This morning I was able to take a clear plastic storage tub and put it in the chick-n-hutch to separate them. I tried putting just Coco (the huge one) in but before I could put a cover on it (we're using a queen excluder from the bee yard) the tiny 6 week old who's the same size as the babies...

We have 4 chicks that due to space issues we have to put together. Two are 6 weeks old and two are 2 weeks old. Oddly enough three of them are identical in size and only one is a "big girl" (at least double the size). It's been 85+ degree weather so we've been putting them all out in the yard...

We have 2 chicks that are both supposed to be Marans and are the same age (6 weeks). One is at least twice as big as the other. We also have 2 that are just about 2 weeks old (backyard blend type). We tried to put them together since the smaller 6 week old is the same size as the 2 weekers...

Thanks to our son's pre-school class we now have chicks! We've been talking about getting a few chickens for our tiny yard and now have jumped into chick craziness. The past week every evening has been spent on this site reading and learning what to do with these little fluffballs. So glad you...