Great video as always!! 🐓

We've used a animal cage (plus water and food) to keep our broody hen apart from the others. Having a separate coop would sure help. Great ideas to separate the girls!

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I’ve always used a big dog kennel crate!

This was very helpful. 😁❤

I would love to know how the pecking order goes after the bully is quarantined..

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea! I’ll do a follow up in a week or so.

Great video! Good news on my bumblefoot, completely healed, thanks for helping! ❤️🐥🥳🐔

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

YEAH!!!! Well done!!!!

@jenessa_0974

2 жыл бұрын

real simple mama Thank you! It’s your advice! ❤️🐔🐥

A brand new chicken owner here. Got 7 pre-laying age chickens about 8 days ago. 3 wyandotes, 1 maran and 3 austrolorps. the 1st 4 were from a neighbor who moved out of state and the austrolorps from a local breeder. One austrolorp I noticed sneezing the following day after we brought them home. the 3rd day we brought home the wyandotes and the maran. 5th day the maran didn't come down from the coop and just stood in the center of the hen house, not even on the roost. Initially I quarantined her in a wire pen, in the run covered with blanket, but the following day I decided to bring her in the house and put her in the guest bathtub for ease of observation and medication. but I really don't have any experience with raising chickens before. She died yesterday.

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no. I’m so sorry. That’s so terrible. If you can, keep a close eye on them. Respiratory stuff can spread like wildfire through a flock. And in the future, when you add birds, keep each group (eg from the neighbor vs from the breeder) separate for at least a week or two. I know it’s a pain but it gives you a chance to watch everyone and stop a mini pandemic before it starts. How is everyone else feeling now?

@d.a.tsun5104

2 жыл бұрын

@@realsimplemama Thank you for asking. Sneezy the austrolorp (hubby was against naming them after 7 dwarfs but he's the one calling her Sneezy first) is still sneezing. But no nasal discharge. I bathe her in warm water with VetRX and rub VetRX on her beak and comb and under her wings. The other ones seem fine. The 3 austrolorps look and behave like juvenile while the 3 wyandotes are more lady-like. They segregate themselves at night on the roost. Every morning, the young ones are still as rambunctious, and the 'ladies' look at them judgingly. But overall, they act 'normal'. I have been looking all over KZread for natural anti-biotic recipes because I live in CA where I find out just now is very hard to get anti-biotics without prescription from a vet. I also don't want to cause the situation worse by making the virus resistant to anti-biotic if I don't know the dosage.

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Also just boosters: raw garlic in a treat (I make oats) or water but only leave it for a day.

@d.a.tsun5104

2 жыл бұрын

@@realsimplemama Awesome. Yes, I saw several videos suggesting the use of garlic as anti-bacterial/biotic treatment. In Asia (India and Philippines) chicken owners/farmers make concoction of garlic, ginger, turmeric and oregano to either mix with the food or drinking water. I did make garlic/turmeric/oregano water for the other 6. But they don't seem to drink much. They eat a lot but I have yet to see them drink. It's been cold and foggy here lately, so they are not thirsty? Or they're used to different kind of water dispenser (I'm using a big stainless steel bowl at this time but looking into making chicken waterer with pvc pipe and nipples)? They're not chicks anymore so I don't think I need to dip their beaks to the bowl... or should I?

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

For me, garlic helps prevent but it does not treat. Does that make sense? It helps keep away the bad, but once your chickens are sick/infested you do need something stronger. I’ve never used turmeric with chickens (I take it myself for fibromyalgia though!) but oregano is a great idea. Lots of benefits. Honestly it may not hurt to sip one or two chickens’ beaks in, and the rest will observe and figure it out. You just have to be careful to not submerge the nostrils too. But I would think they’d already have found it and been drinking? Not sure! 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m happy to help more if I can - theMama@realsimplemama.com

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Great video! I have a bully and I am thinking about getting this coop. Does it have a roosting bar? The one I saw that looks like this one looked like it was for rabbits and no roosting bar. Did you have to add one? Thanks in advance for your reply!

@realsimplemama

8 ай бұрын

Hi! Yes it has two roost bars. ✌🏻❤️🐓

@susanstevens3664

8 ай бұрын

@@realsimplemama thank you!

Say you want your hen to go broody. Well she stay broody if she's isolated as long as she has eggs to hatch?

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Wellll that depends on a lot of factors. Some hens (and some breeds) just have more of a disposition to be maternal. So if a hen is wanting to hatch and you’re ok with it, she may be just fine on her own without isolating her. But if you have an aggressive rooster or you just want her to be safe (more of a Mama Staycation), then putting her up is totally an option!

Blue coat if they have Feathers coming in🤔🤷‍♀️ eh! Lol I've only had my chucks 2 weeks today. Is this summit I should know about pls. Thanks for sharing😘

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! No not as a rule. I’m sorry I wasn’t more clear. Blu Kote is something you can “paint” on a chicken when feathers grow back in after a molt (or if someone has been pulling feathers out). Chickens will aggressively go after raw skin so the Blu helps protect them from being hurt while they’re bald. 😄 but no it’s not something you always have to use!

@ASmileAdayful

2 жыл бұрын

@@realsimplemama 🤭🤦‍♀️ ill put my knitting away then😂 thanks for explaining, boy who'd think there's so much to learn, no wonder a lot of folk don't keep them long. Not saying I'm one, I love em to much. Thanks 💖🐔

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! I’ll say that I own Blu Kote as a just in case, but I’ve literally never needed it. Just if someone has a bald spot from molting or bullying, it’s a protection for that delicate skin that’s exposed. I hope that helps!

@ASmileAdayful

2 жыл бұрын

@@realsimplemama it does help thank you, I only have three, lovely little group, I'm a sponge for chuck know how atm, I will write about this in my chuck book x

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

You’ll have to keep me posted about the book! I have a chicken journal I’ll be selling soon ❤️🐓

Hi, I have a real serious problem with bullying. I have 6 Golden comets with one getting beat up and plucked by the others. I isolated one that I thought was the bully and put her in a cage with food and water and put all that in the run. I hope that giving the bully a week of time out will change the politics of the coop and give the victim hen some peace. I’m also adding 48sf of covered run. Right now they have about 10 sf if run per bird this addition will now give them about 17 sf per bird. Does time out work???

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I’ve had to quarantine bullies twice (two different hens). It worked beautifully with one, she got bumped down to about 3rd place and has been there ever since with no issues at all. (And the new alphas are great leaders and don’t bully anyone.) But the sapphire gem didnt rehab the way I wanted. She was honestly in her own coop/run for 2.5 weeks and within 30 minutes of letting her out, she had pinned my little last-place girl to the ground and was attacking her face. So the jerk will live in quarantine while I actively try to rehome/trade her. I would say what you’re doing is right! It shocks the whole flock a bit like “Whoa wait what happened?” And I feel like it makes everyone start from scratch. BUT I would say also to think about “if quarantine doesn’t work and nothing changes, what will I do?” I’m hoping the additional space will keep them from doing that anyway, but you may need to consider revoking the bully, or the victim, just as a backup plan. I have the “sapphire gem” video that talks about my experience with the jerk, and a “diversions” video that gives you ideas of things to do/give to the flock so they don’t annoy and pick on each other. Let me know how else I can help!

@carls.8408

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’ll keep her in jail for a week. Someone else said to quarantine the victim hen. Supposedly the victim becomes stronger and gets bullied less. Any experience with that?

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t recommend it. The one who’s removed from the situation will be bumped lower or to the bottom. If she needs to heal, then by all means. But I would definitely lock up the bully. The point is to make her lose her authority although that sounds a bit dramatic for a chicken. 😆

Think my hen has the worm that makes them keep opening the beaks. Sorry ,forgot the the name. What do I do to rid of them?

@realsimplemama

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man. Gapeworm. Those things are nasty. I would call a vet or look online, I don’t have enough experience to recommend what to do I’m sorry.

@nancyseaman7574

2 жыл бұрын

@@realsimplemama thanks!

I do not have a quarantine coop