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I have a little silky hen who I noticed had some swelling around her eye yesterday morning. She is currently raising a 5 week old chick, so I am nervous about isolating her and leaving the chick. I didn't have anything to treat her with yesterday other than Vetricyn, so I rinsed the eye with...

I am trying to figure out who is the mama to our 4 week old chick that two of my silkies hatched out. It is fully feathered except for its head and is pure white with one or two teeny black specks on one or two wing feathers. It is also quite large with deep yellow/orange legs. So I have a...

My Black Jersey Giant came out of the coop this morning looking a little more bedraggled than usual. She is missing some feathers on her back from rowdy roosters, but this morning she was moving a bit more slowly and holding her tail at a funny angle. I let it go for an hour or so until my 8...

I have read so many threads and seen much conflicting advice on dosing with Pen G Procaine injectable and need to figure out the correct dose. I have read dosing is .1cc per lb of body weight and also .01cc per lb of body weight. That is a huge difference. Does anyone know the true dose or have...

UPDATE 3/30/15 https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/955930/hawk-attack-graphic-pics-updated-pics-4-days-out-post-86/120_20#post_15022775 Our Brahma hen was attacked today by a hawk. We saw the end of the attack and it was definitely a hawk of some sort. So far I am pretty sure her lungs are...

We had our first predator attack last night on our girls. We live in Vermont on the side of a mountain known to have raccoons, foxes, hawks, owls, coyotes, bears, fisher cats, bobcats, neighborhood dogs and neighborhood cats. We have let them free range for about a year and a half and often...

So, I have a Silkie that was determined to be broody (I know they tend to be VERY broody), so we gave her two eggs and let her sit. One hatched, the other wasn't ever fertilized, so rotted and we removed it. When the chick hatched, we put her and her box (actually a cat carrier) into a large...

A neighbor of ours had a pair of chickens hanging out at the end of her very long driveway for the last three days and put a post up on our local neighborhood forum looking for the owners. Nobody has answered yet, so we took them in and they are now living in our bathroom. They look like some...

We have 7 chickens. 2 are 6 months old. 1 Australorp and 1 Silkie. 5 are 3 1/2 months old. 1 NH Red, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Silkie, 1 Jersey Giant and 1 Brahma. I am pretty sure the Australorp is the one laying, but the Barred Rock is squatting with her wings out when we pet her too. They live in...

My 8 week old silkie who is still in our basement (don't ask, we are having trouble getting our coop built) was outside today in a small pen for a bit and then free ranging for a few hours with another 8 week old chick. She kept laying down sort of on her side and closing her eyes. When I...

My chicks were due to arrive this morning after being hatched Monday and shipped Tuesday. I called the post office today and they looked up the tracking info and said they are not sure why they didn't arrive. They think the package is misplaced or there was an issue with one of the...

We just got 2 four week old silkies last Sunday and by Monday afternoon, one was starting to act sluggish. She was just slowly walking around, not really eating or drinking and I didn't realize it until Tuesday morning. I bought some Corrid on Tuesday after work and added it to their water...

We are cleaning out brush in the back yard where our coop and run will be and have realized that the previous owner put down green shag carpet under where she had kept her rabbits. We are planning to put the run in the same place, as it is extremely convenient for getting in and out during the...

I live in Vermont and a week ago we put 29 1.5 week old meat chicks in our basement in a tarped off area to raise to the point that they can go outside. We are splitting the meat birds with a friend who is going to take them once they have feathered out, but we are caring for them while they...