My silkie has been acting sick for the past week, i brought her in and have been trying to nurse her, but she isn't looking any better.
She hardly eats anything, drinks very little & just stands in the same spot. I was checking on her earlier and she went to jump back into her box, and just fell...
he is literally clicking his beak together!!! I only hear it when he is cleaning himself though. And he is the only chick who is five wks, all my others are alot older and outside freeranging.
He seems like he is fine, no sneezing or anything! I've been putting the med drops from the feed store...
Thanks for all your replies! I plan on keeping him as a pet, so i'll feed him a little under 27%. He's doing good and is very talkive =]
Guess he'll stay locked up in our old chicken coop untill he gets used to being here!
thanks for the help! =]
I just got a five wk old rooster from one of my friends, and he's clicking his beak. I've never had one this young and was wondering if this is normal? I've got over twenty and have never heard this.
Do some chickens do that or could it be a problem?
So my DH brought home a turkey! I never thought we were going to get one!
What in the world do i feed him?
And how long should it take for him to get used to use so we can let him free range?
My peacocks and chickens are having a fit over him! He's really talkive!
Thanks!
I have a tiny hen who is being picked on by the other chickens. I have two girls who aren't old enough to lay and then four roos who don't pick on her as much but will grab her. My husband says the boys are trying to mate her, but i don't understand why the girls are messing with her?
It got...
I've been preparing to get rid two of my roosters.
I thought i had bought two hens but they turned out to be boys!
So i've got four roosters and three girls.
I love them all!! I'm dreading having to give them up!
But they have started fighting =/
So i know how you feel
Hey Everyone!
I'm from Mobile, Al!
My first chicken was a frizzle Rooster and a Old English Hen about five months ago and i love chickens!
We currently have Seven grown chickens and 10 babys.
We also have like fifty peacocks and five genines.
I'm trying to start getting some Turkeys...
I have a chicken hat kind of looks like this. Has the same kind of neck feathers and the same tail feather, but his colors are different. Is it a smaller chicken? The person i bought mine from said mine was a silver wing duck back. He's a rooster and a mean one at that. lol But he's a tiny...
I have guinea's and i love them! We used to have a bunch, but they weren't very bright and all made there way out to the road where they got ran over. We had about 20 and was left with two.
Recenlty we bought three at a stock sale and they don't like to run with our old two. They tend to keep...
One of my hens had this problem. I was told to use some meds you buy at the feed store, but it never helped any. I didn't seprate her from the other chicken (i only had two at the time) thinking it was just a cold, and she would be ok, but she only has one eye now because it would never heal up...
I have eight baby chicks and i bought them at the local stock sale and they all turned out different sizes. They aren't all the same breed. They are about a month old and one is huge, which one looks like a baby chick. Hope this helps =]
I just joined this site! I loved reading everything & its helped me alot with starting to raise my chickens!
I got 7 grown chickens total, a Frizzle rooster, a silver wing duck back rooster, a old english hen, a aracona hen, a barred rock hen and then a yellow hen and a white hen.
Plus i...
So this is my first post =]
Well last night after we went to bed we heard our chickens screaming, well the rooster has taken to trying to mate the girls and we thought thats what it was till they started screaming in a different way. We ran outside and saw our dog had climbed the fench (its a...