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I have been searching all over and ran across a thread that showed a chicken with "shoes" on to help with bumblefoot treatment. They looked like pinkish foam "pads" that the chickens foot was standing on, and they had yellow vetrap going around them to hold the pad to the chicken's feet. Like...

I have pulled plugs of cheesy stuff out of the feet of 2 of my hens and they are segregated from the rest of the flock right now. I want to give them an oral antibiotic in addition to the ointment on their feet. I have some penicillin, some Sulmet, and some Aureomycin. Which is best for this...

I have read several threads on bumblefoot, I believe I have a RIR hen with it and plan to try the surgery tomorrow. Wanted to make sure I had everything straight before even ATTEMPTING this!!! Several threads mention soaking in epsom salt water twice a day. How do you actually physically...

I have 21 chooks that are 1 to 2-1/2 years old, eating laying pellets. I got 15 more chicks earlier this fall, they will be 3 months old this Christmas (born Sept 26). The smaller ones are eating medicated chick starter with amprolium, of course it's higher protein and without the added...

I have a mixture of BO and EE's mostly, with one Speckled Sussex. I got the first batch in 2009 so they are about 2-1/2 years old now. 12 hens, 6 BO, 5 EE and 1 SS. I got some more in 2010, in two separate batches, Spring and Fall - total 8 EE and 1 BO from these two batches. So my mature...

My friend and I were thinking about getting some spiral leg bands from Cutler supply. We were going to split an order of multiple colors to track generations of chickens (we have small flocks, so we won't have to track from chicks to adults, just "this year's chicks" vs. "last year's chicks")...

This hen has been GLUED to these eggs since I put them under her Sunday evening, May 15 in the evening. That means that a full 21 days would be Sunday evening, June 5. Today is June 7, no pipping, peeping, or chicks, and it's mid-afternoon. Soon they will be a full 48 hours "overdue"...

I see several questions about working with a broody, but none seem to be asking what I need to know. My broody is in a large cage on my back porch. She could stand up and leave the eggs by walking a couple of feet away, but she would sort of have to bend over (it's a low ceiling in the cage)...

I don't have a camera handy, can't take pics right now, but was wondering if anyone knew where I could find pictures of someone's hen who WAS egg bound so I could see what they look like...??? Thanks in advance.

I have one hen that has a split in her beak, it looks like a "V" but upside down. This makes her look like she has a pair of beaks, or a set of FANGS! It doesn't seem to really affect her, we thought it might be a hereditary defect - we got as a chick last year with a bunch of others and she's...

The hens seem to really like one of the boxes more than the others, so several of them will lay in that same box. When I got eggs yesterday, there seemed to be a "puddle" of some slimy stuff on the bottom of the box and on some of the eggs that were sitting in it (and of course sticking some...

OK, I have seen the recommendation of 4 square feet per bird. Is that COOP or COOP + RUN? I have a coop (wooden, enclosed, with a roof) that is 8 x 16. That's 128 square feet. PLUS, I have an attached run with free access (they have an always-open pop door) that is 8 x 24, another 192 square...

I wasn't sure whether to post this here or the "Breeds" board, but this is mostly related to egglaying. I have BO and EE right now, was looking at expanding my flock. I have looked into GLW and Partridge Rocks (like the coloring, and they SHOULD lay like a BR, I think...). Any thoughts on the...

My BO roo has developed a black scabby-looking patch on 3 or 4 out of the 6 or 7 little triangular "spikes" on his comb. If we were in the north, my first guess would be frostbite. But I'm in Florida, and we haven't even gotten below 30 F here yet this winter. They are randomly scattered, I'd...

I've heard that Guinea Fowl can be good guards, and they make a lot of noise of something's happening. But I've also heard that "something happening" can include a neighbor coming home in their car, an ambulance 2 blocks away, or a tree moving in the wind... Are they just plain LOUD for no...

My sister has 4 hens that she got from the batch of chicks that I got by mail-order back in March, so they are about 7 months old now. She got 2 EE's, one BO, and one Speckled Sussex (SS) hen. One of the EE's is the lowest on the pecking order, and of course is her daughter's favorite hen...

I was just out at my coop trying to get my EE hen to NOT lay under the roost where all the poop ends up. Unfortunately, I just cleaned up all the poop and put some nice fresh hay down there, so it looks very inviting. I kept picking her up and putting her into a nesting box, which also has...

Is there such a thing as other leg mites or some other skin/leg disease that is not "scaly leg mites"? My BO roo has lines of red dots running up the sides of his legs, and down between his toes, etc. but the scales of his legs don't look like they are "lifting up", doesn't look anything like...

Is there a chart or guideline on what breeds tend to be the most feed efficient when it comes to egg production? I have Buff Orps, EE's, and one Speckled Sussex left in my flock of hens after an outbreak of coccidiosis, and I'm looking at getting some more chicks in the spring. My friend saw...

I have been dealing with a gassy/sour crop in one chicken in the aftermath of my coccidiosis/clostridium outbreak. She is the only one left that looks "sick", droopy, etc. We flushed her crop a couple of days ago and we thought it was getting better (was not re-filling with gassy liquid) for...