When there’s so much snow on the ground, our chickens spend a lot of time hanging out inside our house. But when the snow is so deep, we have to shovel the snow to create a path for them to walk.
Some of our chickens enjoy the “indoor dust-bathing simulator.” Since there’s too much snow outside, they decided to take a towel-bath, simulating a dust-bath. Sophie and Amy were working out hard scratching and rolling around on the bath-towels we put on the benches. It’s just like a treadmill for the humans.
It’s not easy to give antibiotics to a chicken with respiratory disease. I normally have no problem with this with other chickens. I hold her on my lap, wedge her body with one arm, and open her mouth with the same hand. Then I inject medicine with the other hand, gently squeezing the tiny syringe…
Today, we received a phone call from the local post office informing that the package of the chicks has arrived. My husband stopped by the post office to pick up the chicks during his lunch break, and picked up a bag of starter feed from a feed store. We opened the box, and saw these…
Kiki, our five-year old Barred Rock hen, recently developed a respiratory disease. I first noticed her with heavy breathing with her beak open. He sinus looked stuffy most of the time, but she occasionally cleared it out with running nose and sneezing. She stopped laying eggs a couple of weeks ago, and her breathing became…
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