Dear friends,
I have a lovely little rooster that I need to give away to someone who has a home with a yard outside of city limits (or who is willing to readily dispatch of said rooster and send him to the pot – without telling me).
He is a sweet Lavender Orpington, 5 months old, a perfect...
I have 4 chickens who live outside and have lived in their coop for nearly a year. We have a combined coop/run, and they ALWAYS go to bed inside the coop. Until last night, when they decided to perch outside, shunning one chicken who slept in the coop by herself. Now, again, they are outside, in...
I'm trying hard to not get attached to this incredibly flighty little lavender orpington, because I can't tell if it's a he or a she. She's around 4 weeks old, and I'm sure its probably too early to tell, but I thought I'd give it a go and see what the resident chicken experts think. (The Rhode...
Will I kill my baby chicks if I diffuse essential oils in the house? Specifically the DoTerra Breathe blend? My husband has a cold and could benefit from it, but I don't want to compromise the chicks in any way. I'm such an anxious chicken mama!
I just hung a head of cabbage from the top of the coop for my girls and they want nothing to do with it, and are absolutely terrified of the whole setup. You should have seen the gymnastics they pulled off to get into their henhouse tonight! It was hysterical with my honking Welsummer calling...
I took her to the emergency vet and they gave her fluids intravenously and orally, but I think she aspirated the oral ones because before I even got home she was dead, and when I picked her up, all the fluid and some pink stuff just came pouring out of her mouth and smelled so terrible. I'm so...
She perked up for a day or two on Corid, but now is weak and listless and i found her sitting in a mix of watery and black tarry poop in her brooder this afternoon. She's been eating but is down to 13 oz now. (yesterday she was 13 5/8, day before 14 1/2).
Im at a loss. She's dying and I can't...
She's eating, but doesn't like to drink. I think she doesn't like the taste of the antibiotic water I had been giving her, but I've been syringe feeding her water to get the antibiotics in her and she's been scarfing down watermelon, so she's staying hydrated. She perked up for a day or so on...
10 week old RIR (Nugget) with mystery illness that just won't quit.
Here's the rundown:
Three weeks ago, she was fine one minute, running around the yard being her hoppy little self and then thirty minutes later we found her under a tree in the yard huddled with droopy tail. Listless...
I've started her on a round of oxytetracycline because her symptoms are so similar to mycoplasma synovaie, but at the same time I'm concerned about whether it could be cocciodosis attacking her gut. Really could use some help here. Can I give both at same time? Should I be giving her a probiotic...
I haven't weighed her yet. She did feel lighter when I picked her up.
I forcefed her some really watered down yogurt to see if I could help her get some probitics and a little nutrition last night, and this morning she ate a turnip green leaf of her own accord today, with a bit of gusto. She's...