Hello! We just had a little incident, a raccoon was around our birds and got in with our goose and 2 ducks, luckily nothing happened and we are going to before it gets dark fix the area were it got in and set two traps, we've had raccoons in the past and we first started trapping and then...
Hello, I come back for a simple question, we have a hen who's not doing well and we are now thinking about trying to put her down just so she stops suffering. We have never really put down our birds except for once and that was our first year of getting chickens so we don't know how to put them...
This is nothing recent, I just want to share this, idk why really but I feel like its right. Maybe so other people who've had birds pass from being deformed know they aren't alone. I don't really know. But I did cry while typing this.
So I had a Leghorn named Sunny(she is my online name...
Hello! I need some advice with handling a goose, we have never had one before and we don't even know his breed but- I need to know how to make him more calm she likes trying to attack the chickens and has attacked them not badly and he likes hissing at us through fences-he has tried to challenge...
This is the oldest chicken we have, she is 14 years old!
Her name is Bubbles
Second oldest chicken is Lily at 11 or 12-
And then our oldest duck!
I think she is like 9 years old now?
She is blind in one eye because of our male ducks and she can be very cranky at times but she is doing...
Hi! Back again anyway that Chicken who I thought had impacted crop.
She still has some stuff in her crop but not a lot, she is now just breathing heavy.
She is just standing up looking around right now but she is obviously not well,her comb is a normal color she has a steady balance.
She seems...
Hi- next chicken problem, so another more recent thing-
This is another one who is about 7 months old, she hurt her leg and my mom fixed it, when we put her back out with her friends she broke the same leg- she is doing better and is now able to put pressure on her leg but thats not what...
Hello, I am new here. I have four chickens with different problems, but I'll explain them in different posts.
So this first one is what I think is an impacted crop, this chick is about 7 months old, she had been acting weird for two days, she was just staying in one spot and she wasn't eating...
I hope im doing this right- anyways Hi! People here can call me Sunny!
Now to answer these questions
when did you first get chickens? My family first got chickens when I was 1 and a half, about 14 years ago.m
How any chickens do you have right now? I haven't counted them recently but we have...