I have a beautiful silver laced wyandotte who has had/got sour crop. we have been treating her for the past 3 days with probiotic powder, and feeding her a scrambled egg. All our chickens have been getting an oats, live youghurt and garlic mix. She is doing better, eating, drinking, making...
Thanks for the info. It literally happened this morning, and we are in the middle of summer here (live in Australia) so I will hold out hope the 3 layers will lay again! Thanks again.
We got woken up this morning to a major hue and cry from our chickens. Raced downstairs and there as expected we found a fox in the coop. We expected a scene of carnage, but on opening the nest box found 2 of our 4 chickens alive and well, if a bit stressed! A 3rd chicken was trapped between...
Nope, Tandoori is VERY definately at the TOP of the pecking order, even above Clint our rooster! Her history is this: We bought her and 2 others around feb 2010. The other 2 layed beautifully, but she had a few shell less eggs and a handful of good eggs. The other 2 chooks were killed, one...
I have 4 Isa brown chickens, 2 are 4 months and not yet laying, 1 is about 7 months and laying beautifully. My problem is our "old" lady. She is about a year old or a little more and has never really laid many eggs. She laid a few shelless ones when she was around 7 months, then only about 10...