one of my hens had a small pimple looking bump between her toes and so i gave her an epsom salt bath, cleaned her up, separated her into a cage i used for chicks before with food, water, straw and no roost since i heard no jumping. i disinfected the wound with hydrogen peroxide after her bath...
I've had chickens for almost a year and a half. I was cuddling my bantam silkie rooster last night when I noticed the base of his breast bone looked irritated. I assumed it was from mating. We have 11 hens and this one roo, wich I know is too many hens for just one rooster, but we hatched chicks...
This is going to be a long one, but bear with me. I want to be sure to include every ounce of information that I can in order to figure out what the heck is going on!!!!
Okay. So, I came across information about bumblefoot ages ago when trying to figure out what was wrong with one of our...
Okay, I live in Ma. Its been below zero the past week and a half (aside from today& yesterday) we got 16inches of snow and then a freeze... Wile doing my daily check on the "chickies" i noticed that the one and only dwarf bird that is owned here (RUDY THE ROOSTER) had frostbite on his comb. Just...