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The fight happened while they were free ranging... She is able to open her beak a little bit to drink and I will monitor her eating today.

She did let me pick her up. I gave her some chamomile tea/honey water for inside her mouth. I cleaned under her beak with warm dish soap water and dabbed some blue kote on the swelling. Their seemed to be a brown scab covering the area.... Concerning for sure

No, this has occurred since the fight 2 days ago

My girls got in a fight, and it looks like the salmon faverolles won. Is there anything I can do for them? It has been two days since the fight, and the Dominique just is not looking so hot. When I first noticed the fight happened I tried use warm water to gently compress the battle wounds, but...

White Mountains NH 28' F @ 7AM Dusting of Snow Mostly sunny day in forecast April 16

So this is the story of how I got a major spook doing some spring cleaning in the rabbit/chicken compound. I had already spent hours cleaning the pen, shoveling out winter straw from the covered portion of the run before I finally made it to the rabbit hutches. I peeled back the galvanized...

Hey Chicken Genetics Experts! I have a beautiful BLRW rooster and an incubator that is rearing to go. He currently lives with 16 hens, and I fear that fertility is low because he is picking favorites. I am going to separate out Mr. Roo and was wondering what I can expect from the following...

I've seen him go after a salmon faverolle and some SLWs, but it is hard to be sure with him. He's a big, beautiful boy, so we'd love to see some babies from him. If I could seperate him and a few girls I would, but we don't have anywhere to put them 🤨

Gonna collect and try again tomorrow!

NOT FEELING SO GREAT

UGH. That is what I was worried about. 4 of the eggs in the incubator are from my legbars, and I am just not seeing that. Maybe my light is not strong enough (she said hopefully?)

Feeling disappointed in our rooster this morning. Eggs went in the incubator on the 4th, and i'm not seeing much of anything from any of the 10 eggs I put in. I was hoping all that crowing was going to be worth something 🙃 At what point should I give up on these eggs?

So I don't know if it's the quarantine getting to our heads, but we've decided to try hatching out our own eggs. That's right. Moose the Rooster (BLR Wyandotte) is going to be a father... problem is, he's got 16 girlfriends. SO i'm expecting low fertility %, unless Moose the Rooster is reallllly...

I'm REALLY crossing my fingers I don't end up with another Cockerel this year. We've already got one (Moose)... He's enough! Poor Butters last year went straight to the soup pot... I'm fortunate to live in a rural town (however we are in a neighborhood). We bribe the neighbors with eggs...

I start my chicks indoors in a converted rubbermaid tub with a hardware cloth lid. At about 2-3 weeks (this year that will be about the 2nd week of May), I move them outside into a dog crate wrapped in hardware cloth. We use infrared heat lamps, but have used red heat lamps in the past. We live...

I LOVE Buff Orpingtons <3 I can't wait for ours to arrive. Last year we ordered a buff orpington we named "Butters" that turned out to be a roo. This year we are trying again and naming the chick, "I Can't believe it's not Butters" haha

Somehow convinced the family that the flock should continue to grow this year, due to a handful of hens turning 9+ years old. So in December (the earliest we've ever placed an order for chicks) I headed to Meyer Hatchery's website and browsed. I am a fan of hardy, unique hens of all shapes and...

Just going to throw in my experience here-- 9 years in the making. My silver laced wyandottes have always been flighty with me and aggressive with their chicken friends (they just don't want to be at the bottom of the pecking order). My golden laced wyandottes have always been human friendly and...

Hehe maybe I'm a softie here (I didn't read all of the comments, there must be others like me...), but I don't cull my flock. I started my flock when I was a Sophomore in High School with the intent of culling for egg production. Nine years later, I still have one of my original three girls...

I had a chicken (Paul, a 3 year old Black Australorp) that developed first an impacted crop, and then a sour crop. My fix for everything? APPLECIDER VINEGAR. Diluted with water, the vinegar works magic. It softened the impaction. When the crop contents became sour and squishy, I mixed together...