2days later update:
She has been moving around more and receptive to the water dropper if it’s plain water. Still hadn’t eaten anything that I’m aware besides, maybe a drop or two of egg yolk sugar water today? And some pedialyte yesterday.
One of her eyes is cracking open and she appears to be...
this is what I thought, but it is NOT true. We have seen possums eating the chicken food in the run and thought “oh as long as there’s food they won’t bother the chickens”. Well two nights ago I heard my chicken screaming and saw a possum attacking her. We scared it off before too much damage...
Thanks, I already threw out the aspirin water since she didn’t like the taste and didn’t want to drink anything since I offered that. I’ll try the raw egg water before we go to bed, just got her to a quieter/darker room for the night.
Our 3ish year old frizzle bantam was attacked by a possum last night. Luckily it’s warm here so the windows were open and I heard her screams right away, shined a very bright flashlight on the possum while my husband went to scare it off.
She has no wounds that we can see, but there were lots...
Ours are tiny! Those eggs are Welsummers and silver laced wyandottes. One of the SLC's is consolistently laying a soft egg, so we started offering calcium for them as well.
This is my first year raising hens in my back yard. I have two Welsummers, and two Silver laced wyandottes. Half of our yard is 6' wood fence, and the other half is about 4'. At about 20 weeks they started jumping over the 4' fence, so that's when we bought supplies to build a 6' fence out of...