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  1. ScotianChick

    Broody went missing :( now what

    We've had a bit of a fox problem lately that we've been trying to remedy to no avail. Today as I was going to be working all day, I left my main flock in their coop and let my little flock into their pen. My little flock consisted of my first ever broody I got to adopt chicks - she's a hen...
  2. ScotianChick

    To open the incubator or not open

    I had eggs set to hatch around 9 AM on Wednesday morning. Yesterday evening one hatched and spent her evening bowling over the other eggs. Another hatched this afternoon and most seem to be duds (these eggs we got from a friend so not sure on how great they are). Anyway we have one more that...
  3. ScotianChick

    A feather picking mystery

    Hi guys, I haven't posted on here in quite a while! I've got a mystery for you. I have a Buff Orpington who has had bald patches. I thought it was mostly self inflicted as her tummy was quite bald. I sewed her a shirt/saddle to remedy the situation. Underneath the fabric the feathers are...
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    Gurgling and coughing chicken

    My three year old Silverlaced Wyandotte (Zoe) was coughing and gurgling tonight when I went out to shut the coop. I looked down her throat and did not see any parasites. Her noises remind me of me when I get a chest infection. What's the deal? There are scarcely any hens in my village...
  5. ScotianChick

    "Retired" chicken laying again?!

    I did actually just a few weeks ago!
  6. ScotianChick

    "Retired" chicken laying again?!

    I couldn't believe this myself... I have one Rhode Island Red left from my old flock I got several years ago. She is over 3 years old. Last year she decided to stop laying entirely and devout herself complete to being the "rooster" of the flock. Her vent got tiny, she got really thin, she...
  7. ScotianChick

    Found an lost/abandoned chicken - Now what?

    She's so sleepy. I will definitely post photos in the morning. She is warming up to me. Tomorrow I hope after some breakfast, I can get her bathed and make a little spot for her by the fire :)
  8. ScotianChick

    Injured chickens: should I bathe them?

    How injured are they? I had two girls once with large gouges in their sides. I gave them quick, gentle baths and bathed their wounds with watered down iodine (don't use peroxide). Dry them with a towel, gently and keep them by a heater so they don't get cold. If you can, feed them something...
  9. ScotianChick

    Found an lost/abandoned chicken - Now what?

    I've never had to de-lice before. It's not been a problem in my neck of the woods (or really much of Nova Scotia). I could check Shur-gain for this? What do lice look like on a bird? It doesn't quite look like bumblefoot but it could be developing. The sores are on her middle toes. Her...
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    Found an lost/abandoned chicken - Now what?

    My mother and I were driving to her house and on the way we found a chicken! We were very surprised, it was in front of the entry to an industrial site on a very busy road, near the ocean where the ducks hang out. There is one person on the road with chickens but it's at least a kilometre...
  11. ScotianChick

    So is it menopause or what?

    I had one bird who laid every single day for two years. She hit two and a half, went broody, I broke her, she stopped laying. So I guess it can happen at different ages. Two of my other two and a halfs are only laying two times a week now. I think if they lay really hard the first few years...
  12. ScotianChick

    Why are the girls shy when they molt?

    I've noticed many of my girls molt at different times than others who all do it together. When a single one goes through a bad molt she is shy, doesn't want to eat with anyone else, doesn't want my attention and is terrified of the rooster. What gives? I mean I joke and say she is embarrassed...
  13. ScotianChick

    Fermented Apples... uh oh... what did I do?

    So today I went out in my wood house and found that one of the bags of crab apples my husband had collected had obviously gotten moisture in it and rotted quite badly. I took the bag out to the compost heap and went about my chores. Then I went to work. It wasn't until half way through the...
  14. ScotianChick

    Is this what they mean by a "favorite nest box"? :)

    I have three nest boxes for my 8 hens and I came out one day and three were in one and a fourth was standing over them trying to get in and screeching cause she couldn't!
  15. ScotianChick

    To cull or not to cull? - Broody Hen

    "Just give her some chicks" It's not always feasible, this is backyard chickens is it not? Not acres and acres of land on a farm chickens right? I have attempted to break her nearly ten times in her two and a half years on this earth. She broods more than she lays. I would happily give...
  16. ScotianChick

    18 month old Bantam Roo trying to mate with my adolesent girls?

    How do your babies react to this?
  17. ScotianChick

    HELP!!!...what do i do with this broody hen!!!??????

    Broodies are such a pain! I'm actually going to be culling one in the next couple days. SLWs (and most likely gold ones as well) are semi-broody but I have one that is broody a million times more than the others. We're talking five times last year and once this year AND she just went broody...
  18. ScotianChick

    Do chicken recognize their owners?

    Mine know me and panic when someone new walks into the yard... however it's perfectly fine in their minds to sneak over to the graveyard (next door) and beg would be visitors for treats.
  19. ScotianChick

    To cull or not to cull? - Broody Hen

    I have a SLW who goes broody ALL THE TIME. She's over two years old now. The warm weather started a couple months ago and she went broody persistently as soon as it warmed up. Well I said to my husband "if that bird goes broody one more time, that's it, she's stew". I just... feel bad doing...
  20. ScotianChick

    Albino Easter Egger?

    Has anyone had an albino chick before? I just got 5 EEs and 5 Silver Spangled Hamburgs about 6 weeks ago and the little guys all have feathers now and some are even getting wattles and and the starts of red combs (must be roos!) But I have a girl that is so pale and white... her beak even looks...
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