Here’s a pic of her from two weeks ago (she’s asleep right now :)
Her crop is only emptying about half way overnight- her digestion has definitely slowed down since she started acting poorly, but it has not come to a full stop. She does have access to food, water, and grit. I switched her to...
Hi all!
I have a 14 year old bantam, Smoky, who I have in the house over the winter because she can no longer regulate her body temperature (along with another old chicken friend with advanced gout :/
Last week Smoky started doing poorly, and I thought maybe she had ingested some of her...
My little bantam chickens can't free range unless I'm within 5 feet of them because we have too many neighborhood hawks, so to keep them busy during the day in their pen, we use straw for bedding, then sprinkle millet or wheat across the straw so that it sinks into the crannies. They'll spend...
From my experience- when a chick is prone to pasty butt, it's because something's not quite right with their digestive system.
Sometimes whatever is wrong with their system will improve with time, and they'll get better and go on to live happy healthy lives.
Other times there is nothing that...