Hello,
I have one hen that has had fluffy back feathers for maybe a month now. I routinely check her for lice and the q-tip looking egg bundles, but I haven't seen anything of the sort. The feather shafts look normal and my other birds are fine. She does seem a bit smaller/lighter weight than...
I feel like I’m posting on this topic way more than I should 🤦♀️ I have four newbies, one blue red laced Wyandotte, one lavender Cochin, one lavender Orpington, and one salmon favorolle. They are four months old, I put the Wyandotte in a local poultry show as a pullet, and they said she was a...
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A week ago last Sunday we picked up 10 chicks from the store. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts two didn’t make it through their first week. After 10 days the biggest of them are starting to get lanky and energetic, which is wonderful to see.
However, the smaller of them really need to...
I’m doing fluffy butt Friday. Again! It died out but now it’s back and here to stay. So every Friday post a picture of your chickens fluffy butt and add their name and look at all the other fluffy butts. Every. Single. Week.
I've raised baby silkies twice now and both times I've had to deal with pasty butt. Their butts are so fluffy that they accumulate poop until it blocks their vents and I have to bathe them regularly or trim their butt feathers which is difficult on a small bird and I always worry about cutting...
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My hens are a mixture of a Rhode Island Red and a Marran - they are 1 year old, they are penned in quite a large space, i do not have the facility for them to be able to forage free range, they are laying laying since about 6 months old and are good layers, they are fed a mixture of...