One of my Buff hens (two years old) wouldn't come out of the hen house this morning and was looking a little unbalanced (not sure if that was because it was dark in the house or the eye was shut). When I picked her up I noticed one eye way shut (it didn't seem swollen) and the other was weepy...
I bought three new chicks today. Two blue Ameracauna and a blue/black split. The split is 2 wks and the blues are almost 4 mos. I left them together long enough to make a tsc run and back. When I got back, the split had literally been split! The blues had pecked off her back and some wing...
Roo my Rooster --his head has been tilted and facing down. What is causing this? any home cures I can do for him? Is he missing some special kind of food? he gets crumbles, dried pasley flakes, sun flowers, meal worms from time to time, special chicken suet, raw cabbage? his water has electro...