I had a crazy summer. The day I got home from a vacation in June, my Chinese crested gander, Gossie was attacked by a fox. I felt this sick sense that something was wrong outside. I ran out to find our female goose, Buttercup, by herself in the garage. Gossie was unconscious and being dragged...
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I have a 19-20 week old Exchequer Leghorn chick named Lili. I was trying to integrate her and our other chicks into our flock. Everything seemed to be going fine, so after a few days of close observation, I attempted letting her stay with our grown chickens overnight. Unfortunately, she got...
I have a four year old wyandotte hen who started wheezing very loud sometime today. Yesterday she was acting completely normal. None of my other chickens are wheezing and everybody seems to be acting normal. I isolated her from the rest of the chickens. She is still eating and acting completely...
She has had access to dirt, but they are on medicated food and have been since they hatched. Would that prevent it? She just went outside for the first time yesterday. I haven't noticed any bloody poop.
I also noticed that a few of the chicks have been sneezing a lot. The welsummer has not really been sneezing, but my black frizzle cochin bantam chick especially, has been sneezing. They are all acting normal, eating and drinking. They are walking, flapping, and scratching through their...
I have a two and a half week old welsummer chick who is usually very active and curious. It has most of its wing feathers and a couple small tail feathers. She usually spends a lot of time out from under the heat and running around flapping her wings. I found her standing under the heat today...
I have a rooster that has a toe that is exactly like that, except on both feet. I got him as a older chicken and it was too late to fix his toe. If you can fix it, like said above, that would be great, but if not, she/he should be able to live a normal life, with a small limp.
Yeah, they have a much bigger space. I was using the Brinsea EcoGlow Brooder, so I figured she could get away by coming out from under it, but maybe it was getting too hot. I'm sure she was too hot though. The other two got sick and were lethargic, so I wanted to make sure she wasn't getting...
I just recently got ten new chickens, who are about three weeks old (unfortunately two died, but since then, everything has been fine.) I just have two quick questions.
I have a white rock, who has many more feathers than the other chicks and she always seems to be hot. I often find her...
I had these ten baby chicks and they are all 6-7 days old now. There was a White Crested Black Polish, which constantly was getting pasty butt. This morning, she got it again and I was cleaning her up when I noticed she was just sleeping there and when I put her down, she just stood there, I had...
I have a chicken with an eye that looks just like that bottom picture. She was injured by a raccoon this summer. She's blind in that eye, but she's perfectly healthy otherwise. She took about a week to get used to it, and now she acts completely normal.
I have a BLRW rooster named Pip, who is 5 years old. When he was younger, something happened to his toes and they curl outwards. He also has very long spurs which make it hard for him to walk (we are planning on cutting them soon), so I am not surprised when he stands weird and is a little...
I was at a nearby pool, watching an away swim meet, and the meet was stopped because a mother duck and her 3 ducklings were swimming across the lane lines! They were the cutest things. But someone came up to me and told me that it was ridiculous that we were taking the ducks out of the pool. He...
There has recently been a series of raccoon attacks at my coop. We've finally (hopefully) got it under control, but the raccoons left 6 chickens dead and 1 injured. The injured hen was Sunny, a 1 year old Red Sex Link. She was scratched on the neck (which I believe is healing ok) and something...
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I posted about this on another thread and got some responses, but I wanted to see what you think. I have three eggs, which I think (I'm not very good at inferring these kind of things ) are fertile. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how far along they are?
Thank you!