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UPDATE: My little brahma is doing well. This is the 3rd day since her bite and although she still has a bruise, she seems to be doing well. Thank you all.

Thank you all for your helpful replies. I am in the middle of nowhere and in the middle of a snow storm and out of betadine. I cleaned her up again and flushed with saline and dakin's solution. I reapplied the antibiotic ointment and returned her to the brooder. She is acting otherwise...

My 2 week old light brahma was bit by my cat a bit ago. She seems to have a puncture on her back above her wing that bled a little bit and a bruise a little smaller than a dime. I cleaned it and put some neosporin on it. She is behaving fine. What else can I do?

We recently adopted 3 new 6 week old chickens from what we thought was a reputable breeder from the many reviews on facebook and yelp. Unfortunately, this was not the case. When we got them home they were infested with lice and then two of the three came down with runny nose, one had heavy...

Thank you all for the comments!

I was hoping that I could get some help on determining if these are male or female? They are 6 weeks old. Their combs are very yellow and hard to see above their feathers although between the 3 of them the size varies, one has a very small comb and the other two are bigger but still hard to...

Our chicks are 4 weeks old. They were supposed to be all pullets but I have concerns since they seem to be developing differently. I have one with a small comb and one with a larger comb and one in the middle. This shipment already had a cockerel, so I hope it was the only one. 1 is the...

Thanks! Those are great ideas, we will get that set up.

The coop isn't quite finished yet, but hopefully this weekend it will be completed, but their brooder is plenty large in the mean time. I was planning on completely removing their supplemental heat on Wednesday and then I will start transitioning their temp down. The temps for the next few...

We recently adopted 3 BO pullets, currently 3 weeks. We weren’t planning on getting chicks until spring, but the neighbors ended up with too many chicks and needed to get rid of some quick and my kids fell in love so…now we have chicks. I am not really as prepared for this as I would have been...