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I am feeling incredibly useless and inept right now. I was raised on a farm; we had horses, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, cats, and raised calves all through my childhood years. We did our own vet care and I thought I was relatively knowledgable. My kids were raised pretty much...

If he is alive in the morning I will make a run to the feed store for electrolyte supplement and antibiotics. Doc suggested amoxycillan, 250mg, 1 or 2 a day because he's a big boy.

Sent an email to the Chicken Doc and had an immediate response to call him. He said to tube feed him a mixture of hard-boiled egg, plain yogurt, his regular feed and an electrolyte supplement. It's too late to get electrolytes but we ran to the pet store and picked up aquarium tubing and a large...

Quote: I lost my job in June and my husband's hours have been cut so I can't justify the expense of taking him to a vet; we are really strapped right now. His neck isn't torn up but that is where the worst wounds are. He has full control of his head, but I've noticed that the last couple of...

He didn't come in to roost Saturday night, so I think his attack started Saturday but we didn't find him until Sunday. There are several things I would have done differently if I would have found this board sooner. He has not eaten since the Monday. I should have offered him yogurt, cottage...

I've really thought about bringing one of the hens in but I am hesitant to do so. First of all, the only two left are very flighty sex-links and I really don't think either of them would appreciate being in here with us. These are all free range birds and really don't care to be around us. I'm...

Ol' Red is still with us this morning. I gave him some more aspirin, gatorade, laying mash soup. He doesn't look good but I guess as long as he is alive there is hope.

It was about an hour ago that he took a couple drinks of his aspirin "soup". He is now standing up and drinking like he was yesterday and he just poo'ed and it looked pretty normal, not that bright emerald green color. I don't really want to get my hopes up, but it looks as though he is a...

Thank you all for your concern and suggestions. Ol' Red has taken a turn for the worse. I think it is his lack of nourishment catching up with him because he has become very weak. He absolutely refuses to eat, even though I tried cottage cheese, yogurt and hard boiled eggs. I figure now is the...

I don't know if he has any internal damage or not. I'm wondering if he might since I am not seeing any improvement yet. I thought about turning his light off at night for the reason you mentioned, but I also thought that leaving it on would allow him to drink more of his "broth" as well as...

The morning of December 28th my husband took a couple of shots at five coyotes. He followed them down to the creek and found our two-year-old rooster (a commercial Rhode Island Red) walking back up. He picked him up and brought him on home. He's missing all the feathers on his back and most of...