NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

I have a hen not laying anything, too. I'm about ready to do her in, because she's picked on so severely from the other birds. She hides under the roosting box if the coop is closed, and if the coop is open, she runs to our tall grass shrubbery and hides in there (she's not hiding any eggs that I can tell...I've been checking). All she does, all day long, is hide. At night, when the other birds are roosting on the bar, that's when she can be found at the feeder, eating.
She's missing most of her feathers and has a scab on her foot from somebody being mean to her. But she's my 6 yr old's favorite chicken (I guess he relates to her a bit...IDK), and I haven't had the heart to get rid of her. Even still...she hasn't laid a single egg. Not a one.

I'm sorry you're going through that

I had a hen that was very similar. I would always find her hiding because she was picked on. She dug herself a hole and hid under the ramp into the coop, or she would hide between boards in the coop to escape them. Eventually I found her dead out in the run and I'm convinced it was from another hen or one of the roo's picking on her. She never laid an egg either and just in general wasn't a healthy hen. I regret not doing something about it sooner like rehoming her or just culling her. It's a hard decision to make though, especially when she's your son's favorite...Good luck!
I would really like to rehome her, but she's a tough sell...lol. Offer: Free hen to good home. Doesn't lay eggs. Looks like Abby Mallard from Chicken Little. Missing many feathers. Pecks at your hand when you try to be nice to her (because the poor girl...SOMEbody's got to be beneath her in the order, right?). Hides all of the time. Strange.

Poor girl. I think I will have my husband cull her when we add our rooster to the freezer. I was hoping once the winter was done and they were free-ranging, she'd perk up, but so far, all she has continued to do is hide. And the moment she's near anybody from the flock, they brutalize her.

She does crouch for the rooster, though she screams horribly when he mounts her. You would think she'd lay an egg, as she clearly is engaging in mating behaviors. But so far...nada. And she'll be a year old at the beginning of June.

Can you give her separate quarters ? She is probably not laying because of the amount of pecking she is getting

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

If it had been from my lavender pair I would totally agree with you because I'm beginning to wonder the same thing about that pair. But this came from my Lavender roo from Geri Godina and the Splash hen I got from a woman in MA. What makes it worse is that Splash hen hasn't laid much for me this year. That was one egg out of 7 I've gotten from her this year so I was so happy when it actually hatched.

Lynzi I would ask the women in MA where she got her silkies she might have got them from Geri Godina she ships her chicks hens and eggs all over the place sells them all over on facebook. I have some from Geri Godina, East Coast Silkies and Catdance Silkies but I also have a few I got from someone in Florida and they were from eggs that were hatched from Geri Godina's birds.

4 goslings, looks like 3 boys & 1 girl. They are still wet so I could be wrong. They are from my white Sebastapols. I don't have any coming from the saddle back for another 2 weeks, and she was bred by the white gander, so I don't expect color to be visible, but the goslings will be split to color.

Congrats

 

[Gramma Chick]

rain,snow ..fell on my way out to the coop this morning..ugh ..gunna be one of those days I guess..so goes life in the great state of ny ..

Slick tonight too when I came home ...Are you okay ?

 

[Gramma Chick]

Just went upstairs to see how it was doing...it passed.

so Sorry ...

 

[Pyxis]

Do you have pictures? Is she having eye or nasal discharge or is it more like she got pecked in the eye?

No eye or nasal discharge and acts normal.

I would put her in her own little area in the coop if you can, so that the others can't peck at her eye. I would give her some yogurt or probiotics to try to get her bowels running smoothly again, and that should help with the gross poop. As for the eye, you can treat it with some eye cream like erythromycin or terramycin. You can get terramycin at Jeffers Pet here. Just put it on her eye once or twice a day until it's healed. Also make sure she's eating - the others could be bullying her away from the food since she's not feeling well and that could be contributing to the poop problem. Giving her her own area will help with that too.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. Someone turned off the heat outside and threw some snow on the ground last night. The terrorists refuse to come out of their coop. Wusses. And they are blaming me. My silkies pounded out their doors this morning no problem. Speaking of, I had a war of sorts with one of my broody silkies. I went out to candle her eggs and found that she had 11, not the 5 I left her with, under her. Obviously she was stealing her sisters eggs. Anyways, I pulled them all out and started to candle them when the little witch comes growling out of her next and starts grabbing the eggs and putting them back in her nest. She was quick too and I had to keep redoing some of the eggs as I was putting the developing ones back in and she was adding the others. I kept pushing her away from the eggs so I could grab them and she just growled and kept grabbing them. After a 10 minute tussle I finally had her back down to five eggs. Between the growling and the attempts to remove my hands and fingers from her eggs, Im lucky I got out in one piece. She is a wolf in a silkie body! I have pips in the bator. Hoping for babies when I get home from work.

Desiree--can you put that girl in her own cage for a while and treat her eye and feed her? Yogurt is good. I use vetermycin eye ointment and that stuff is amazing.

Okay...off to the pharm. Have a good day everyone.

 

[Metella]

Pharm - that is hilarious !!!

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Forgot to add that it is estimated that up to 80% of domestic flocks have MG and it does not usually affect waterfowl.

I have a silly question: what does MG stand for other than a cute little car? Is it viral or bacterial? Thanks!

Morning all.  Someone turned off the heat outside and threw some snow on the ground last night.  The terrorists refuse to come out of their coop.  Wusses.  And they are blaming me.  My silkies pounded out their doors this morning no problem.  Speaking of, I had a war of sorts with one of my broody silkies.  I went out to candle her eggs and found that she had 11, not the 5 I left her with, under her.  Obviously she was stealing her sisters eggs.  Anyways, I pulled them all out and started to candle them when the little witch comes growling out of her next and starts grabbing the eggs and putting them back in her nest.  She was quick too and I had to keep redoing some of the eggs as I was putting the developing ones back in and she was adding the others.  I kept pushing her away from the eggs so I could grab them and she just growled and kept grabbing them.  After a 10 minute tussle I finally had her back down to five eggs.  Between the growling and the attempts to remove my hands and fingers from her eggs, Im lucky I got out in one piece.  She is a wolf in a silkie body!  I have pips in the bator.  Hoping for babies when I get home from work.

Desiree--can you put that girl in her own cage for a while and treat her eye and feed her?  Yogurt is good.  I use vetermycin eye ointment and that stuff is amazing.  

Okay...off to the pharm.  Have a good day everyone.

Determined girl, isn't she. Thx for the fantastic pic u put in my head!

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Morning all. Someone turned off the heat outside and threw some snow on the ground last night. The terrorists refuse to come out of their coop. Wusses. And they are blaming me. My silkies pounded out their doors this morning no problem. Speaking of, I had a war of sorts with one of my broody silkies. I went out to candle her eggs and found that she had 11, not the 5 I left her with, under her. Obviously she was stealing her sisters eggs. Anyways, I pulled them all out and started to candle them when the little witch comes growling out of her next and starts grabbing the eggs and putting them back in her nest. She was quick too and I had to keep redoing some of the eggs as I was putting the developing ones back in and she was adding the others. I kept pushing her away from the eggs so I could grab them and she just growled and kept grabbing them. After a 10 minute tussle I finally had her back down to five eggs. Between the growling and the attempts to remove my hands and fingers from her eggs, Im lucky I got out in one piece. She is a wolf in a silkie body! I have pips in the bator. Hoping for babies when I get home from work.

Desiree--can you put that girl in her own cage for a while and treat her eye and feed her? Yogurt is good. I use vetermycin eye ointment and that stuff is amazing.

Okay...off to the pharm. Have a good day everyone.

Wait, how did she manage to move eggs like that? LOL!

I have this one hen, she lays an egg, usually next to somebody else's egg, and then she sits on it. When I come in the coop, she starts shrieking and fluffing herself up. She's even pecked at me when I go to retrieve eggs.

So I figured I'd let her sit on some eggs if she wanted, but she never stays long enough. She sits for a couple of hours and then she's off and doing her chicken thing. The eggs end up too cold for her to hatch.

Maybe when its consistently warmer, I'll let her try and hatch. I can't tell if she's broody, or just being witchy.

 

[marquisella]

Here they are! One has spraddle leg, anyone fixed that in geese? Its more back than to the side...of course, its the darker one that I think is a girl.... Now, I'mm not sure about the others being boys, that they are dry, I see grey on their backs in varyinng shades of darkness, but all three have yellow heads.

I didn't know goslings could hop! One almost hopped out of the hatcher. They are already coming up to my hand when I put it inn the hatcher....so cute & friendly

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