I have a few Polish in a mixed flock and have found they get much more confident when you trim back the feathers around their eyes and they can see better.
Cleopatra has her good and bad days. She's about 4yrs old now, the past year or so I've had to keep her leg/foot wrapped w/vet wrap and gauze pads for padding 'cuz the part of her foot that touches the ground was starting to scab but we cleared it up easily. I'm considering keeping her inside...
A friend of mine has 2 parrots, today one of them showed respiratory distress then died. She's wondering if parrots can have tylan, or if that's specifically for poultry use? If they can, what's the dosing per weight of the bird?
I have a cross beak, but no where near as severe as your's. Deep food dishes, wet food help a lot. Since she was a chick I kept up on trimming and dremeling her beak and feel it's helped her a lot. We're in NH, so in winters she lives inside the house to avoid her tongue getting frostbitten...
Put up a few strands of electric fence, one or two zaps is usually all it takes and he'll learn fast. Not only will it keep your chickens and ducks safe from your dog, but also all other sorts of predators. I have it up around my flocks and it's quite the peace of mind. I've gotten zapped...
Whiskers is an Old English Game hen, hatched two chicks last Saturday. They're in a large cage in the house. Starting today she has gotten over the top aggressive when you try to feed or do their water. I mean it's ridiculous how much. She keeps kicking bedding into the water, so I'm...
All the eggs I gave her were hatched that day and put under her that day. I don't have an incubator but I do have another broody hen {not being allowed to hatch} and a heating pad, thanks.
This is my 1st time letting my broody hen hatch eggs, so far 2 have hatched this morning. My questions are... should I pull out the layer pellets and give her the chick food today? How soon after hatching can I clean out her cage? It's ripe due to a broody poo overnight, lol. I'd like to...
I added an adult silkie rooster to my flock about a year and a half ago, he was the only silkie and he went into a flock of 18 hens, all bigger than him the poor guy. After letting the girls see him while he was safely behind fencing, I put them together. Honestly, he looked like a bull...
I just used Safeguard to worm the flocks for capillary worms, doing the 5 days in a row. Do I need to repeat this in 10 days? And if I do need to repeat it, do I do it for another 5 days in a row?
I have a scissor beak, a few months shy of a year old and I used to trim her beak until it got too thick for what I'm comfortable using (nail clippers). Then I bit the bullet, paid for an exam by an avian vet and got it dremeled by him. Now I just bring her in when it needs to be done only...
Urgh, I just went through this with one of my speckled sussex, which was my first time dealing with a broody hen. I felt bad putting her in a crate, so for a week just locked her out of the coop and was quick to get the other hens' eggs out. Her broodiness didn't seem to me like it was...