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I didn't have them hatch eggs together but my girls Featherfoot and Griffin raised some adopted feed store chicks together. Sadly a couple months in my family and I went to work out in the woods while the mamas and babies foraged in a well foliaged area which they did all the time. When we got...

Lol So funny! I lost my flock of 31 (I had gotten rid of my last two roos a week or so prior) to raccoons figuring out my auto door during a storm January 3rd. I had a dozen eggs from my flock in the incubator but I was initially hatching them for someone else. I hatched 7 so the lady I was...

Felt around her abdomen. It does feel pretty watery...like a water balloon. When I first noticed she wasn't her usual self she was walking like she had a full diaper and when I soaked poo off her fluff butt it felt like some small pieces of egg shell were in there. Didn't try looking at the...

Thank you. She's almost 3 years old but yes, I do feel something else is going on. As I think I stated earlier she developed a strange growth to the left of and below her preen gland late spring last year. For all I know it could have been a cancerous growth. It took until mid-winter with...

Her head only began tilting like that when I found her flat out soaking wet in the crate this morning.

Finally got the pictures. One of her feet is all red and inflamed looking now. Wasn't like that before. Since yesterday she's been keeping her toes curled. I did get her to drink about a teaspoon of water and eat a tiny bit of egg...and dropped 3 very fat live mealworms into her mouth...

I've got some penicillin on hand from our goat that recently passed post-bear attack. Can I use that on a chicken? Can I give it to her orally or does it have to be a shot? She's extremely hard to force feed anything via syringe. I'm always afraid of an animal aspirating (20 years ago had a...

We realized one of our hens, Peep, had contracted bumblefoot a couple weeks ago. I began treating with epsom salt soaks, foot massages, wrapping her feet with antibiotic ointment (which actually seemed to worsen her condition because she stopped walking once the bandages were on). I could not...

I didn't even look at the bottom of her feet! I'll look more closely when I go out again. Plus I'll look up treating bumblefoot! She walks like she's got a full diaper... Could a possible cause be the blackberry vines I tossed in a couple weeks ago? These chickens love blackberry leaves.

Several days ago I noticed Peep had her tail down..has been keeping it down frequently. Walks around fairly listlessly as drinks but rarely eats. My daughter fed her some darkling beetles dipped in egg and she perked up for that. She'll also eat the clabber from goat milk. First couple days...

This (now 100% confirmed) rooster is very camera shy and while I tried to get a picture of him to post, most of them came out blurred because he kept running away! Obviously that also means his health has improved. He's doing all of his roosterly duties (except the crowing) but still gets chased...

Thanks for the mention of whitewashing. While I couldn't really white wash the inside of my current coop set-up, I can easily see being able to whitewash the inside and outside of the coop we're building right now. I think it'd work on both the wood and the concrete blocks, right? I'd still need...

I think the spray I have is the permethrin...it's down in the shed and I'm not so I'll double check later. Is that okay to keep eating the eggs as well? I found that several of my birds have mites and I'm going to deep clean the coop and spray everything and every bird down today. Then I'll...

Grace11 It would be really great if we found that he was really a she! At least he's improving already and moving around more. He's able to jump up onto the lower roost then onto the top of the nesting boxes by himself. Unless we see or hear proof one way or another before we get our new coop...

This morning I took "The Three" out for some relaxation in the morning sun while I worked on the new coop space. Two hours later (I only meant to work a few minutes!) I put them all back in. I ATTEMPTED to put Cheep by the water to get a drink but he was immediately attacked by a black sex-link...

Sorry it's a long one! Haha Ashlymamaward! I have two not-so-small-anymore children and I spend my days home-making, homeschooling and homesteading! My son is almost as tall as me and it makes me a little sad. He's 11 and my daughter is almost 9. They both have a goal of building smaller...

Our RIR practically ripped the comb half off of one of our sex-links when they were both wanting to use the one nest that all 18 hens like to use. I think she was just in a bad modd because normally she's bossy but not THAT bossy! There are nesting boxes but they don't like them. That means...

We've learned a lot of what we do and don't want in terms of our chicken space over the last year since we got our first one. Once we get the chickens set up like royalty we can move on to the goat area and get their shed rebuilt into something bigger and better (with hay storage!). I learned...

Hmm to both of you! I just looked up rickets and I'm not sure about a nutritional deficiency possibility. I do mix my own feed but I add in some chicken scratch to the mix of grains I use. In addition, they get a good sized bowl of kitchen scraps daily. Yesterday they got all the bones, skin...

Casportpony: No, it's not S shaped. It's more like the keel got pushed inward. That's why I'm thinking it was broken. At first I was thinking that due to his size, maybe it grew wrong because he spends so much time on the roost though I did think it also may have been broken. Since we've noticed...