I have a 2 year old bourbon red male and 2 bourbon red hens in a coop. It is mating season and the male has gotten a little bit aggressive. With this being said he has created an open wound on the back of one of the hens. We separated them and have dressed the wound. From day one of the attack...
My salmon faverolle has an injury to her vent after being mounted a bit aggressively by my cockerel. It's a cut in the corner, a little bit on the inside.
I've cleaned around the area (and separated him, which he's not happy about!), but she's always had quite loose stools so I have no idea...
Found this injury under one of my birds wings on both sides. It could have been there for weeks. I am assuming it’s from my giant rooster, who we are going to trim his nails today.
I cleaned out the wound as best I could and put wound spray and neosporin on it. She’s eating more scrambled eggs...
Hello! Sorry for the long post. I will try to use bullet points to make it easier to follow.
We have a flock of 7, one drake and six gals. Frank (our drake) is a HUGE Pekin. We have a Pekin hen (Maggie) two Cayugas, a Blue Swedish, and two Golden 300 Hybrids.
- Frank and Maggie (Pekins) are...
Iv'e seen my male quail mate with her but every time they do so the feathers from my female quail gets pulled and now he pulls on the skin Ouch... Is this okay or should i do something?
So i was preparing a sand bath for my beautiful quails when it was amelia's time to take a bath (the female quail) i saw fred (the male quail) mating with her so i just removed fred from her and put her in the sand because i noticed fred was pulling her head feathers fred made some noises and...
I discovered a wound under Stella’s wing this morning while she was in the nesting box. After dark this evening, I brought her in the house to inspect further. I washed it with soap & water and then sprayed with microcynAH. She’s sleeping in a crate now, separate from the flock, but should I...