I can not believe that I fell asleep and forgot to lock up my girls. Hannah, my totally blind chicken is gone. I have been out there searching bushes etc and found a feather trail. My poor sweet girl. I am going to miss cuddling her. It only takes one slip up...
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Thanks, Itsy, I don't have pictures but will try to get some. It was a nice cheap option. I went to walmart and got two rubbermaid 18 Qt dishpans. I drilled a bunch of holes in the top one (just small enough that their poop doesn't fit through). Then I put an inch or so of pine pellets...
I am glad to see a rabbit thread, as I have just started with them as well.
I have them in stackable 24x36 cages, but still found the smell pretty bad even with daily picking. I wanted the poop for my garden but not the pee so I potty trained them and made a two tier rubbermaid system. The...
I am so glad to see this post! One of my girls just started laying this week, she has had one small and one large double yolker, so when we found the GIANT egg in the nest box we thought "WoW! maybe 4 yolks in that one!"
It turned out to be an egg inside an egg and I was getting really worried...
The first one in every batch is the hardest for me.
I bring them in the room one at a time so they don't see what is going on. After the first one is dead in the killing cone, I set it aside to process and go get the next one. that way I am busy processing bird one when bird two is in it's...
This sounds a lot like what is happening to my little banty right now. I am going to bump it in hopes someone can help.
Mine has been acting that way for 5 days now. I fed her raw honey in a syringe yesterday and that seemed to perk her up. Then I gave her electrolytes and probiotics. She...
Thanks guys. she is still not eating. I got 4 more ml of yogurt in her some with olive oil.... She is pooping mostly white with bits of dark green. I am massaging her crop often and it is going down....
Should I force feed her tonight before bed? How long can this little girl go on without...
I am desperately trying to help my Frannie. I don't know what has caused her illness and need help diagnosing. I am relatively new to chickens.
Frannie is a 16 week old barred Cochin bantom. I don'y know ow much she weighs, but she has really lost weight and muscle.
She is fed organic laying...