This chick was scalped 2 nights ago. The first night I used peroxide, saline and white cream Neosporin. The next morning I tried taking off the Neosporin but some of it wouldn't come off. I used saline and then iodine to rinse it after getting off as much cream as I could. Then applied clear...
So one of my teenage chicks was trying to escape the coop as my sister was leaving and got herself shut in the door...at first we thought she had a broken neck and wasn't going to make it but she then was able to move just fine so we threw out that idea. However, there was a lot of blood around...
Hello. I'm planning to get silkies. I absolutely love them but I'd be lying if I said the hole in their heads didn't bother me. It just seems like a way too vulnerable trait for an animal to have. My current knowledge is that ALL silkies have a hole, more or less and the crest gets fuller if...
So tomorrow I plan on getting some more baby chicks and I recently read that some breeds such as silkies have a weird shaped skull that if they get hit in the head even slightly that it can kill them. My question is about these 3 breeds: Ameraucanas, Welsummers, and Golden Laced Wyandottes. Do...
Marcello is my baby, he was out in his fenced area in the garden helping get it ready, we ran to the store my mom and sister and other family members were home but when we got back something attacked him a couple weeks ago I assume it may have been a crow or a hawk because all my chickens are...
I have a silkie I just had to do an assisted hatch on. Actually I had 3 I had to do. My children opened the incubator and shrink wrapped them. Fortunately I got them out and they are doing ok.. sleeping it off.. I'm sure it was stressful for them... and me of course.
Now my silkie which have...
Our young chicken went missing yesterday and today we found it in our garage, it's skin from the comb to a little bit above the neck is missing (the chickens comb isn't fully grown yet, it's like a stub) we do not know what happened but I need to know how to treat this ASAP. I do not have money...