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One of our Cochins looks like it took a fall two weeks ago, had bloody feathers due to broken blood feather, we pulled the broken feathers to help healing, and are giving her antibiotic shots from the vet. She won't put pressure on the leg still, and holds it out in front of her. If I put her in...

Hi I was wondering what I should do for my Cochin who is growing new feathers on her feet. One day I saw a bloody spot on the coop by the egg boxes, so I inspected my hens for damage. I thought maybe they caught a mouse! But no turned out my Cochin is growing very large feathers on her feet this...

Looks like since he is a silkie he has developed crook neck and it only really is noticable when he sleeps. We added vitamin supplements for poultry to their water and have him a squirt of poly visol in the morning, along with giving the rest of the flock a squirt of the vitamins too, hopefully...

Could we have an update? I have a rooster doing this, at night only so he falls off the roost every night. We supplement their feed with corn and they have layer pellets and we give them veggie scraps, but guess it's not enough. Did the electrolytes help? I have a pack I may set out tomorrow for...

The thing is though that she laid very well even in the winter when she began laying. Probably once a day or every other day. She was very regular!

Well no wonder she won't lay! She is all alone, probably so lonely, and in a box, so she has very little leg space to move around and do her chicken thing. Please please please just fence off a section of your run, either with fencing or netting or even use a dog crate(the wire kind), and put...

I have had a silver polish hen for 1.5 years now. She started laying about 6 months old, in the winter and spring. In the summer she got broody and became next box pals with my bantam Cochin. She was broody all 3 months of summer, and finally as it cooled down she lost those habits. Nothing I...

Hello I am wondering if anyone has witnessed odd sleep behavior in their hens/ roosters before? I have a 1.5 year silkie rooster who I've noticed has begun to sleep with his head in between his legs! It appears that he's just tucking his head into his neck feathers but it appears like he is...

The plant isn't prickly in any way, very easy to pull up! It seems thistle like based on the leaf shape but no prickles!

Can someone help me ID this plant/ is it safe to feed to chickens for supplemental greens? It is growing wild in my garden and I would love to give to chickens and not waste it! Just don't want to feed it to them until I know it's not poisonous. Thanks!

Hi all! I have quite a lot of this plant growing in my garden now that the crops are dwindling down, I cannot seem to find a proper ID for it and of course can't seem to find my field book! I would like to know if it is safe to give to the chickens for some extra green eats! I want to give them...

Hi all! I have quite a lot of this plant growing in my garden now that the crops are dwindling down, I cannot seem to find a proper ID for it and of course can't seem to find my field book! I would like to know if it is safe to give to the chickens for some extra green eats! Thanks!

We have an extremely broody Cochin who will not give up being broody. She has been so for about a month, and sits on invisible eggs. We take them away from her every day, have tried nudging her many times a day off her nest to go out and be with the rest of the flock, have kept her out of the...

Thank you for the reply!! I am also a student so My mother is currently watching the chicks and hens for me while I am away, so hopefully when I come home in a week I will be able to try introducing if broody is still brooding which is very likely, it's worth a shot if it can be done! I am...

i have a broody cochin, and 3 four-week old silkie chicks (smaller than grapefruits) is there any chance we could introduce them and have her adopt the chicks as her own? she is SOO broody, refuses any sort of "breaking" to her broodiness. we have separated her from the boxes for a few days...

were these chicks two weeks old, or were they week old chicks? thanks! I am trying to figure out if it is possible to do this for my broody and my chicks we have been raising in a brooder!

I have an extremely broody cochin, who will not stop with her broodiness. We have tried every trick in the book and she is still broody. We got 3 silkie chicks just as she was starting to be very broody, and they are now all 4 weeks old, and she has been constantly broody for at least 2-3 weeks...

So is not unsafe to try introducing them? They certainly would be a lot easier to handle if they were adopted!

Can you introduce 4 week old chicks (3 of them) to a super broody hen? She has been broody for almost 2 months and is relentless but we can't let her hatch out eggs, since we don't have any space for more chickens since we just got chicks! So my question is, is it too late to introduce them?

Help! We have had a broody Cochin who will not be broken of her broodyness no matter what we do. I have separated all out chickens from their run and coop for a full day multiple times (we have a chicken tent for ranging) We have nudged her off her best multiple times for days, but after a few...