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We have four silkie hens in need of a new and loving home. Although we love them very much, they are becoming too noisy and since we live in town, our neighbors are getting irritated. Lately they have been very broody and would probably make good mothers, though we have not given them babies...

I went out to check on my chicks this morning and one of them scared me half to death when it started screaming. The poor thing is straining terribly and screaming whenever it tries to poop. Sometimes it passes some and sometimes it doesn't. It was fine yesterday. Its whole rear is kind of wet...

It seems that the chick is mostly trying to clean off his pasty butt. The poop gets stuck every time, even though it looks pretty normal besides being watery and a little foamy. Now his vent is protruding too. He's eating, drinking and moving around just fine. I've never had a chick with a...

I'm really worried about some of my new three day old silkie chicks. Most of them are fine, but I've noticed that one of them keeps picking at his butt and when I went to clean off his pasty butt I noticed that he had a big red sore on the top of his vent. He won't stop picking at it even though...

Hello! So I live in town, and because of that I have been chickenless for almost a year now. But now I can finally get some new chickens and I am SO excited to get some new ones. However, since we live in town we have to have a breed that is quiet and can't fly very well, so that they won't...

OK hi! I've remained silent too long. I tried to read through all of Derp's adventures, but after a few weeks of trying I concluded that Derp just did too much for me to read all of it! However, I read enough to conclude that Derperella and I have a lot in common. When I mentioned this to my...

Well, poor Breeze fixed the problem himself. I went to cover them up the other night after being away all day and I found Breeze dead in the bottom his cage. I don't know what happened to him. :'(

By the next day she seemed completely fine. I have no clue what happened. I did notice that she was only puking up one kind of seed, which I thought was kind of weird. We got new food for her and she is doing great! Thanks for checking up on her. :)

I would have to say that it depends on the birds. We introduced a young male to our older female and they did very well for a while. Then the male started abusing the female. I definitely wouldn't put them in the same cage right away though.

My parakeet was fine this morning, but now she is puking. At first I thought she was doing it affectionately, like I had read that some do, but she isn't chirping anymore and she looks sick. It looks like she is straining and I am worried. She is actually puking up whole seeds. Is there anything...

I don't think that they are bored. We actually just rearranged their cages and they have plenty of new toys. We even put a box in Breeze's cage because it looked like he was trying to make a nest. He would tear up the newspaper on the bottom of the cage and haul big pieces of it all the way to...

They are currently in separate cages, but is there really a point in keeping Breeze in a separate cage if he and Smudge are not together. Oh and another problem, even right now Breeze constantly paces his cage and calls to Smudge. I think its a kind of love/hate relationship, because he...

I have two budgies, as far as I know, the older one is a girl named Smudge and the younger one is a boy named Breeze. They are both under 3 years old. My budgies have had several incidents in the last six months. I have never actually witnessed it, but I have heard the screams and the flapping...

That sounds like a good idea! I'll see what I can do.

The window is facing south. I took down the board on the left side, but last night when I went out to check on them, their water had frozen despite the fact that I use a lightbulb to heat the water.

this is my coop. Sorry about the the picture quality. The two boards on the frontbare covering my ventilation holes. The article did have good info, but my roost runs along the back of the whole coop, which is only about 3 feet wide, 5 feet long and 4 feet high. Where could I put vents where the...

I'm not sure I understand. The vents on my coop are about 8 inches wide and 12 inches high. I use them in the summer to allow air to get in and keep the coop cool, but cover them in the winter to keep the coop warm. I have never had problems before, but this is the first year that I've been...

Here in Wisconsin, we are supposed to have sub-zero temps all week. When I winterized my coop I covered the ventilation holes with boards. However, I wanted to make sure the girls would be ok with the cold and when I checked. I cold see light around the boards. I am worried about drafts. I cut...

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Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I have two hens that I hatched myself. I got the eggs that I hatched from different people around my neighborhood. My hens just started laying about a week ago and I was wondering if it would be safe to eat the eggs. I don't know if they need...