I went out of city yesterday
I brang some vet food for them
But when i came back...
I didnt see any ducklings!
I saw some walking dust!
I put them in a water bowl thats bigger than before
But they dont like to swim or cleaning
I hust want to keep them and wash them with soap:lol:
But i know i...
So I did something sort of stupid. Yesterday I bought a very sweet hen from a young woman who breeds and sells a few different varieties of bantam chickens nearby. We were all set up to meet and make the exchange, hen for $, and she let me know the hen was bathed just before she brought her...
We discovered mites amongst our flock today. I washed several chickens, 2 roosters and a3 hens. The one that had it the worst is now limp in my arms! i don't know what to do. please help!
My 4 week old chicks are telling me they want to have a dust bath. They are trying to do it in the wood shavings in their brooder. I'd like to start slowly exposing them to real dirt but there's no dry dirt here because of all the rain and snow we've been getting. The forecast says more and...
Hey! My baby chicken, Henrietta, got poop all over her butt and forehead, so I decided to wash it off with a washcloth. I wiped the poop off her forehead and her butt and dried her off with a towel. I put her back in the cage with a heat lamp and she started screeching at the top of her little...
Hello all- One of our girls got attacked by the neighbors 2 little dogs, and they pulled her skin off pretty good from neck down between wings, and on one side. She also got a bite on her chest. This was Tuesday 9/26. We cleaned with betadine solution/warm water spray, and have treated for...
I have two white pavlovskya hens that are in desperate need of a bath. A summer full of sticking their faces in watermelons and muddy days has taken its toll and the girls look dingey to say the least. I've bathed some of my other hens before but I've never bathed hens with such fluffy heads...
I am noticing a pattern in the chicken bathing tutorials. "A splash of vinegar" or "a squirt of glycerin" or "soak for a while". No specifics, just pictures of chickens in 5-gallon buckets. I am also getting conflicting information on which tub should go first.
What works for you? How...
My bared rock has always seemed to have a poopy butt, way more so than the other chickens, but my chickens do co- exist with our dogs when they free range our entire yard, once a day right now as there are more shady spots that way in the heat of the day. The dogs (one especially) has been known...