(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
-All through my childhood, I enjoyed the company of chickens. Starting at the age of 8, I had more than twenty hens. Wanting my own children to gain a similar connection to nature, I have more recently purchased two chickens. One...
Hi Wyorp Rock,
Her tongue was pink but the tip looked brown. She didn't have scabbing under her wings. She just pass a few minutes ago. She had slow difficult breathing and then died. I'm sad but at least she is no longer suffering. It was so strange she seem to be getting better and then it was...
Thanks for asking! It's super strange, she is getting worse. Her eyes are closed most of the time and she is having difficulty holding her head up again. I am back to hand feeding/watering her again. She constantly shakes her head from side to side while trying to eat on her own. This makes it...
Thanks for all the tips! It give me so much hope to keep going with her. Haven't given her oak meal in a few weeks. She just been eating corn, chick grit, water, and vitamins.
I've never had this problem with my chickens before. Given, growing up on a farm, I had a huge flock of chickens as a child back in the early 80's. I never had one of my girls get sick. I found those two disease online and by speaking with the farmer of whom I bought my girls from. I don't want...
Hi, I have a Black-copper-maran pullet almost hen that has been sick for over 4 weeks. It's crazy that I purchased two together because the other one was smaller (Pettie Lune-little moon) but now the little one has matured into a hen and the other sick one remains a pullet (Ma Chari-my darling)...