I have no idea if this is relating to the mite infestation we have right now. I've been treating them once every other day to not completely stress my hens out but today I was cleaning our older hen's butt because of poop and saw her vent like this.
It's not bleeding she is still going to the...
is there any way for me to convince my poor hens that I'm not in fact trying to hurt or harass them when I go to help clean the poop stuck to the feathers on their vent??? I haven't had to do it often but it's been more than twice now with one specific hen and she is always so distressed about it
A month of two ago some of my hens got brutaly attacked by some mean hens (which I DO NOT have anymore).
They got their vents attacks severely. I've been watching them and I thought they were recovering well.
They had some weird discharge which I didn't take to concern because I thought it was...
A week ago last Sunday we picked up 10 chicks from the store. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts two didn’t make it through their first week. After 10 days the biggest of them are starting to get lanky and energetic, which is wonderful to see.
However, the smaller of them really need to...