Thank you so much, it was really kind of you to reply. I always hear people go on and on about this site, but I can never seem to get info from people anyway, I am sending her off to a veterinary college to have a necropsy done on her to find out what happened. Ill update when I get the results.
I have a lavender americana hen that is about 10 months old that was laying in the corner of her pen just a bit ago when I went down to feed/water. She has not started laying yet so I thought it was odd and picked her up. I felt all around thinking maybe she had an impacted egg, and I cant feel...
Hi there. My husband just built me a wonderful coop with 16 different cages inside and we have two attached yards at the moment and I let each group out for a portion of the day and put them up and alternate who gets to be in the yard to peck around. I have a lot of babies coming up and...
I have 9 four month old bantam cochin cockerels for sale for $7.50 each or 2 for $10. These birds come from show stock and have beautiful feathering and very nice chickens, I was just blessed with way too many roos! I have one mille fluer, two black birchen, one black mottled and five buff. I...
I just ordered my first two batches of eggs and the same thing with me. The first shipment the post office assured me the day before they would follow the shippers instructions for them to call me to pick them up. The next day I never got a call and looked and looked and finally saw them sitting...
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Ive read many of your posts so I have no doubt you know what you're talking about. My heart is breaking at reading your post. The trio I bought is a calico rooster, white hen and the sick one is a blue splash hen. I was so very looking forward to babies from them but after reading your...
I also wanted to add to make sure I didnt leave anything out that I put VetRx on them all a couple of times when I got them, all over their combs and waddles and feet and under their wings.
I bought three one year old cochins from someone one week ago today. They all initially seemed fine but I began to notice all of them sort of shaking their head. Well after a couple of days one of my hens started coughing/sneezing so I gave her an injection of Tylan. She has since had 3 total...
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Hey all. Ok here is the story, a friend of mine sometimes gives her eggs to a friend to hatch in her large incubator. She had I believe 5 buff bantam cochins and one splash silkie to hatch Sunday and we picked them up Tuesday. I got the silkie and she kept the cochins. When I called her to tell...
Hey everyone! Ive been lurking around the site for a bit and decided to join today. Ive just started keeping chickens a couple months ago and have 6 gl wyandottes and 13 cochin babies. Im a stay at home mom and have one almost 6 yr old son, 4 dogs, 2 cats, 2 rabbits, 2 dumbo rats, and a 46...