Hi,
I have 1 week old ducklings from metzer farms. 2 white layers, 2 magpies, 1 runner. I am feeding them purina flock raiser. They are in a kiddie pool bedded with woodchips. And they have a chicken waterer for food.
I noticed today that my layers have crusty anus' (see attached photos) and...
New to posting but have been using this forum for help raising my first duck flock! I couldn’t seem to find an answer pertaining a hard almost skin like crust forming over both of my Drakes eyes? It’s semi-hard and seems to be attached to his eye lids but though his eyes may be slightly wetter...
I am about to get four new Japanese Bantams from my mother's flock (one rooster, three hens). They have crusty white "growth" on their feet. My mother says that this is mites, and has been treating it with Scalex Mite and Lice spray for birds. She says that one of her other roosters actually...
Hi, a couple of months ago a friend told my family and me about a chicken that was lingering in her back yard for a couple of years. She told us the previous owner of the chicken passed away. Since we already had a flock of chickens we decided to pick the rooster up. He was scared and hard to...
My nearly 1 year old Rhode Island Red/New Hampshire Red rooster, Pierce, is having another issue. We got past the frostbite this past winter, and its been between 40-85 degrees here this whole month.
I saw today that aside from a few little tiny black dots on his comb, he now has a large black...
I have a hen who is always looking a bit off.... She is 34 weeks and never laid an egg. I have noticed her butt area is a bit brown (and she is grey) and i was going to give her a butt bath, so I turned her upside down and took a look to see how gross it was.... and i discovered a scab or crust...
He was born with hunch back then when he got to be 4 Mo old his neck got shorter and legs got longer lol.
He has always had what I call "chicken butt". He is a bit deformed and has some sort of crusstation on his butt. Lots of pin feathers and redness.
I try to take care of him but was...