I have a flock of 12 chickens. This is our first year and first flock. All are doing well except these two.
We have a Barred Rock that has very twisted toes and has trouble walking stumbling a bit as it goes. It can get to food and water just fine and is growing approximately the same as the...
I got the bird as a chick from the same place as the all the other birds from a local "breeder". (They incubated some this spring) The rest of them are not sick other than a few others have twisted toes which, from reading, sounds like a fairly common deformity. Since they were local I fed them...
We are new to the chicken thing. This is our first year/ first flock. Everything is going pretty good but we have one Barred Rock that seams blind, has some twisted feet and a bit of a tough time walking. (stumbles a lot) It finds food and water just fine and is roughly the same size of the...
Thank you. I will fix it right away!
I had another thought. Does everybody leave a light on 24/7? Do they need a "nightlight" or is it better to make them have some shuteye in the dark? I know about the egg laying thing but I don't think I will have much of that anyway.
Thank you all for your replies and for the welcome!!
The coop has a plywood floor with wood bedding so no wire.
The perches are made of wood dowels aprox 1" in diameter.
The coop is a converted lean-too. There is a full wall up to the roof on two sides and the other two sides the walls go up...
So I have been lurking around trying to find info the pertains to my new flock. Our flock is a mix of 5 RIR, 1 Americana, 1 black star, 1 Barred rock, 3 Red star, and one buff/red colored one that I am just not sure of. This is the first time I have tried to raise chickens and all in all things...