Thank you every one for your help but unfortunately Tweetle Dee has pasted away. I thought we made a change in progress by force feeding her and she actually kept it down. Fighting my husband every step of the way today while trying to feed but shortly after he arrived home, picked her up to...
Her stool was at first liquid white diarrhea. Ive checked her for mites and I cant find a single source. I just tried tube feeding her and she seemed to just have it all pour back out afterwards. Her breathing is very labored now and shes acting like shes giving up.
I have a year old Barred Rock hen who, up until last week was fine. Our weather out here went from 60 degrees to about 28 degrees over night. At first I thought the cold might be getting to her but the other hens were not affected. She came right up to me while feeding them which is usually...
And they are only in the coop at night. They coop up on their own and are let out around 8 am. They fight constantly but not as violently when my dogs are outside.
We bought 8 hens and a rooster when they were about 2months old. Everything was fine until they got older. Then out of nowhere the hens started to mount one another and pluck the feathers from the backs of the little hens. Now, tonight, they killed one of the hens. Her neck was snapped and after...
I have been searching all over and cant come to an answer as to what breed one of my hens is. She is small, black, white ears, and long tail feathers. All these point to a Black Rose comb or Minora... but the only thing is, none of these have the feathers on their head like she does. There are...
One of my 8 hens (aka Chicken Breasts) thinks shes the boss and constantly picks on all the other hens, even our rooster. I noticed today that she was walking up to all the other hens and had all her neck feathers raised up and was slowly bowing her head. I don't know what this means. I got...