It was done on a hard surface, and she didn’t flap because he was holding her still after the blow while she died. I’ve had to dispatch a couple raccoons too but weirdly they never flopped around for me.
I recently needed to cull an old hen because her water belly was really bad, but Ive never been able to cull my babies even though I know they’re suffering, so I asked my dad to do it. I’m glad that he’s willing to drive to my house to help me out with it but I just don’t like the way he did it...
We ended up culling her, I had my dad do it for me I still haven’t been able to it myself (I’ve only ever had one other chicken who needed to be culled) we did try draining her and we double checked to make sure we had the right spot and we have drained a chicken with water belly before so I’m...
I think I have someone who’d be willing to help, I won’t be able to drain her until tomorrow, it’s really late were I am right now and I have someone who will hold her for me tomorrow. I think I’m going to drain her and see how she handles it and if it helps at all before I make a decision on...
I’m not sure, my hens stopped laying all winter and only started a week ago and I don’t think she has because i haven’t seen her in a nesting box or any eggs in her usual spots. I think going to try draining tomorrow but honestly she looks worse than she did when I posted and I’m really worried...
I think my bufforpington has water belly, I noticed two days ago that she was having neon green watery poops and that she was bloated, but I couldn’t feel a stuck egg and her crop was emptying fine. Last night she wouldn’t Roost and she’s really lethargic this morning. She went down hill really...
I wasn’t sure how to work the situation so the title may not be accurate, but we’re building a chicken coop for the deep litter bedding method, and lined the coop with plastic. To make the plastic fit and the walls smooth we used plywood to cover the studs but it made gaps between the plywood...
The internal injuries on my rooster were caused by dogs, the coop door was blown open I had five birds eaten and he had injuries from the attack that he didn’t recover from. I don’t think my yen has these because I checked everybody very thoroughly after my rooster died because I had originally...
I went to check on my birds before going to bed and three of my hens were sitting on the ground instead of on the roosts which worries me because last time this happened my rooster died from internal injuries and I figure the hens somehow knew and were sitting with him or were just keeping him...
I’ll def eyelet look into putting something moisturizing on their cones, I have coconut oil on hand I might use, thanks good to know it’s not as bad as I first thought!
My chickens seem to have white stuff on their combs, I saw it on one so I checked them all and it was on all of them. I got the best pictures I could. My hens don’t seem to be acting weird but is this something I need to treat? My flock did have scales leg mites recently if that’s related, and...
They are out of the wind, the ventilation isn’t awesome but it’s there. I have some older picture but the coop hasn’t changed much since then. I was hoping we’d get their new coop done before this storm but it didn’t happen. Definetley enlightened on how to keep the frost bite away now!