Hello I have a severely injured hen. She is about 5 years old her head is extremely injured. She has a small hole in her back head her meat is showing behind her head. I’ve heard from someone that tumeric helps with wounds so my mother who can put tumeric in her head. Does anyone know how I can...
Hello we have a hen Im assuming she’s about 8 years old she has not been eating or drinking. She seems very weak and keeps her self isolated from the flock usually in a corner I’ve noticed she has poop glued into her cloaca. How can I help her she seems like she is dying. How can I help her...
Good afternoon. Yesterday I went to the coop and saw her weak and light it’s lm pretty sure she has been starving her self or something. Also her poop is this green color she also did a poop with bubbles. I quickly separated her. I gave her brown rice with turmeric and layer pellets mixed and...
Hello, good afternoon one of my younger hen seems to have scaly mites. She is the only chicken in the flock I noticed that has scaly mites on her legs. How do I treat it? Should I treat all my chickens?
At first I thought hawks for Killing them. I’ve noticed that my chickens would go week by week. Predator Killing 1-3 chickens per day to 5 a day. The fun fact was he would just kill the birds not eat there flesh only eating one of the animals flesh and leaving. One day I woke up early and caught...
Hi, I have a blue silkie rooster name Dawn. He is extremely rude! He has reticently started to attack me. He also loves to fight with my other roosters. None of my other roosters attack me accept him. Never in a billion years would I except the silkie breed to be this mean! I have even tried...
Hello, One of my Chocolate Orps has gone broody its currently day 22. First week of incubation the eggs were honestly fine. 2nd week Ive noticed one egg missing each day I suspected one of the nonbroody hens had something to do with it. Thing is I haven't seen any of the hens bother the mama...
Hi, I was given this duck from a friend. She says the duck was born with this leg and had this leg ever since it hatched. Is it it possible I could fix her leg? If so how can I fix her leg.Here are the pictures.
Hi, I’m having some troubles with sriram predators. I’ve lost 2 baby chicks SLW and 1 teenage chicken Red Frizzled to a hawk. I’ve los lost many other chickens to them. I have a full netted run. The chickens are good at running there. They are also free ranged 1 acre land. But I have hawk who...
Hi recently visited my grandparents house. It’s their first time hatching eggs or using an incubator. They don’t have a turner they have been turning the eggs 1-2 day when there so post to be turning them every 2 hours I’ve told them many times ether buy the turner or shake the eggs every 2...
I have no idea what happened we have one female runner duck injured severely. We ran out of paroxide. Please give us suggestions on how to care for our injured duck.
Hi I have some 4 week old Easter egger chicks who I thought got cocidous they had bloody poop I feed them 5 table spoon of cord v since it was a big cup holder for water the regular ones you buy at TSC for chicks. Now I’m noticing there crop seems to be full but their body’s are starving and...
Hi I’m wondering if it is safe to install a fan in a chicken espically because we have hot summer and a way our flock members to cool off in the coop. Is it safe to add a fan off not how about a air conditioner?
So I found an abonded baby bird not sure of the breed ill post a pic. In the morning a hawk was chasing the baby and I found it on the ground soo I picked. How do I take care of and how do I feed it.
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