I would go for the larger run. I put a divider in my run at the end in case I had to separate a chicken. Also put in a mini hutch with egg boxes. Reasoning: separated chicken has a place to roost inside and lay..Hen can sit eggs for hatch and brood there, or adding new bird into the flock. Best...
Heard chirping from a tray of eggs that I was candling and after 24 hours was concerned since I hadn't noticed any progression in hatch and your article explained all and now I see the first little hole in shell. Hen is being very patient..Thank you..
if you really need to know have a vet take saliva samples from the wounds and have them sent to a lab..he rooster may have samples on his spurs if he got a lick in..
Suarte..rumpless tuffed Arcauna bantam..thanks you..who is not too happy being seperated from her flock..a few more days and she'll be reunited and being the smallest getting back on tract giving the other bigger birds grief..
It's so nice to have your post on antibiotic dilutions..I have a Arcauna show bird, a real beauty who has come down with a very severe case of airsacullitis..usually I catch that sort of thing when I hear a snit but she had gone broody and had tucked herself into an egg box. When I went to...
was she vaccinated for Mereks? I was researching something similar and was told it could be a calcium deficiency..She should be quarantined until you can figure it out.
:)I'm way late on this thread but did you use an antibiotic on the hole and wrap the foot? Blood isnt bad it just means you got all the dead tissue and bleeding a little comes from healthy tissue.