Hello. In September my flock suffered a traumatizing event, when an assassin crept into out coop and murdered our bantam rooster. His lady love has been coming to the back door of our house every night since to sleep in our kitchen. We have tried reintroducing her to the coop, but she...
My 8-month old Barnevelder is one of four hens of the same age. A couple of weeks ago she went broody and we were able to cure her of that in a couple of days by moving her out of the nest box and closing the coop door during the day and moving her to the perch at night. She plucked a lot of...
Hi, this is my 1st time posting and 1st time chicken owner after my dad irresponsibly bought chicks in March 2020. We experienced a predator attack that left us emotionally traumatized, with only 1 small hen left named Jin (we thought Jin was a cute name but didn't know the chick's gender at the...
So I saw something on BYC about a swollen abdomen and realized that one of my chickens has one. At the time I noticed her swollen belly, I did not know and figured it might just be an egg. Turns out it's waterbelly, and I saw a video about draining the ascites. We do not have any supplies or...