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We did have a friend of my mom's staying with us for a while & she would often feed our girls left overs & was giving them yogurt nearly every day for a couple weeks :/ Her personality is a bit obsessive & she's sensitive, but I still asked her several times not to be giving them so many treats...

She's taken quite the liking to the cat food, but shes surprisingly disinterested in the watermelon :/ Is it possible this could just be constipation? :fl And is there anything I can give her for the pain? Saw some contradicting opinions on children's motrin/ibuprofen & aspirin.... I'd just...

If it is internal laying, could it be possible that this has been going on the whole time she hasn't been laying even though she wasn't showing signs of sickness? Thank you so much for your help! We'll be keeping a close eye on her :fl😢

We've used a sand/hay mixture on top of cement with drainage before (slanted & with holes) & loved it! It helped us escape the muddiness here in VA under wraps, was easy to clean, & kept foxes & other predators out by making it impossible to dig a hole & sneak into their coop/run at night. We...

Hi, one of my chickens (3yr old red sex link), Bertha, is not doing well at all. She has laid maybe two eggs in the past year, but I was not too worried about that because her health hasn't suffered until now & she's always been one of my strongest (& one of the two alphas of our small flock of...

ok. thank you for the insight. I am currently trying to massage her crop and i will be trying to see if she will regurgitate any of it up, but if it continues to be a problem, i have found a vet in my area that will do the procedure

Hello, I was just wondering if you would be willing to share how much your vet charged to have this surgery done?

Thank you both so much!! I will be sure to follow your advice :)

Thank you! My mom and i tag teamed holding and checking their heads, and we are pretty certain they have lice :( but ill be sure to spoil them with mealworms once mine come in from amazon ;)

what are some good treats that may have good sources of protein?

There's this wonderful thread that helped me a whole ton when i was trying to determine the sex of my chickens: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-can-sex-your-pullets-and-cockerels.1178270/ Also, theres this great article...

I have 6 hens.. 2 of which have started to lose feathers on the tops of their heads.. Recently there have been an increasing amount of feathers around their coop and run area, and my original 6 eggs a day has dropped down to 3.. so i figured they might be molting, but they are only 7 months old...

I do not have any roosters... i have one white leghorn, one red sex link, and then 4 easter eggers.. my leghorn is definitely the alpha of the flock and we've had some issues with her being nasty towards the others (i.e pecking at faces/heads) so if pecking order is the issue she's my best bet...

My Wilma is missing several feathers from her head.. Does anyone seem to have any ideas as to what has happened? She wasn't missing any feathers yesterday, we had an issue with rats getting in their coop a few weeks ago (but we believe that to be remedied), she started laying eggs about 4-6...

Welcome!! Looks like chicken math has hit you pretty hard :lol: