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Giving Pills to Chickens
From time to time, chickens can and do get ill, just as humans do. This can range from something as simple as eating something that disagrees with her, right up to life threatening illnesses such as...
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Weighing In
I had to take a trip to my doctor this morning for a general checkup and to get some prescriptions renewed for my meds, so when I got home, I decided I would do a quick checkup of the chooks. I had...
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Rainy Day Ramblings
The chooks were going absolutely stir crazy today after days being pent up because of wet weather, so I decided to let them out despite the rain. I’d been keeping them in, thinking that young chooks...
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Omnivorous Chooks
Green Jungle Fowl When I posted on my blog recently about my chickens going nuts over canned sardines, my friend DivaJyoti commented that she hadn’t known chickens would eat fish. Chickens actually...
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New Council Rules for Poultry
Image from Come Home to Health I spent most of last night, drafting a submission to my regional council in response to some proposed changes to the local bylaws for keeping animals in our region....
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Tis the season…
to be broody, it seems! My light sussex hen, Bertha is all grim determination to have chicks even with being flogged off the nest three times by her coopmates who wanted to lay their eggs, today. She...
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Bombproof Broody!
so, today we went to the local council recycling center and picked up an old dog crate for $15! When we got it home, I cleaned it thoroughly with water and disinfectant (note: I have since found out...
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Something to crow about
Yesterday while I was drinking my morning coffee, I could hear a faint sound which I couldn’t quite decipher coming from the direction of my chicken coops. I couldn’t decide, sitting in my study, if...
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Chicken Nail Trimming FAIL
So today I decided I would try to trim my Gold Laced Wyandotte’s toenails. I decided to use her for my first attempt at this job because she is my quietest hen when it comes to handling, and because I...
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Sick Pickle!
With all of the wet weather we’ve had in the past two months, it was inevitable that we would end up with chickens suffering from some kind of illness. I was prepared for respiratory infections and or...
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