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Hi there. I have a friend who just told me that their chickens wattles started swelling up and then exploded? I've never heard of this nor can I find any info out for them. The chicken has since passed (they culled it) but they are still clueless as to what happened. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hey all! I just had a hatch of baby sillies. One mother is white, one is blue\black. The father is a kinda red colour. What could be babes look like when they get older? They all look like the one in the photo.

Hey all. Hoping for some help here. My quail, my very dumb quail, were attacked through the chicken wire of their pen. They had a million other sheltered places to go in there but it seems they just took to standing still right next to the chicken wire while a raccoon put its dirty little mits...

I was out with my hens this morning and heard a big splash! I noticed it came from my one Han so I paid attention to it for a while. It's droppings are mostly completely clear water. Water and solids. But water mostly....imagine a bowl of water with a few tiny black things floating around in it...

i was curious as to how some people heat their coops when it starts to get cold. Believe it or not, here in southern Ontario, we just got a bit of snow. AWESOME! I have about 25 chickens and they seem to sleep all over the place randomly in the coop. I was going to stick a heat lamp in there in...

I thought it could be astrolorpe but it has such a tiny little pea style comb. It's definitely a rooster. But what breed!?!?

hey all. I was wondering if anyone knew of any live animal auctions in Ontario. Preferably around the niagara region? And one preferably that deals in poultry. I know one in hagersville every Friday morning during the summer and one in London every Saturday during the summer. Both are a bit...

Recently one of my hens had a runny nose. I quarantined it, put it on Gallimycin for 5 days( what the farm store person told me to do) waited two more days and reintroduced her to my flock. Her nose didn't seem too runny at this point. I went out there tonight and now almost all of my hens have...

Hey all, I have a question. I've self diagnosed some of my hens and chicks with Coccidia. Fluffed up feathers, the odd bloody stool and constant weird foamy orange/yellow poop or diarrhoea. Not all of them have this but some definitely do. It started in the larger hens after it appeared in...

hey all, I have a problem. My hens seem to prefer to sleep outside. I have a wonderful coop for them but they always seem to roost on top of the coop instead of inside. I have plans to fix this, but in the meantime one of my birds has got a runny nose. I assume due to the lack of shelter...

hey! We just went to a live animal auction to waste the Saturday away and my daughter (sweet 5 year old Ivy Rae) begged me to put a bid in on some small chicks near the end of the day. 6 birds 2 bucks a piece. The guy said they were barred rock. However they are all different looking. They seem...

My wife and I have a small hobby farm in southern Ontario And have about 30 hens, all different breeds. We've posted on here a few times before asking questions but have never said hello. So. Hello! We are looking forward to becoming part of the community. So far this site has been incredibly...

i was wondering if anyone could help me I am having trouble Locating some ivermectin pour on in Ontario. I've looked at all the local farm shops and I've found nothing. Would love to try this on my birds to help with mites, lice and worms. I've tried everything else and they keep coming back...

I have a flock of about 23 chickens and out of nowhere it seems like everything has gone wrong. 4 of them (my youngest about 3 months) have started popping this yellowy foamy poop. Nothing else seems wrong but that scares me. A handful of them have been getting slightly crusty nostrils. And...

I just recently found out my chickens have lice. I took them all out one by one to give them a little DE rub and noticed some of them have a yellowy "wax" substance in the feathers around their face. Not a lot. Just some. They don't seem to have ear mites. Their noses don't seem to be runny and...

I noticed one of my hens had a really poopy butt. So I took it out for a bath. Some warm water and epsom salts. I also noticed it had a small wound on its foot that it and other chickens were pecking at. I washed the wound and slowly removed the poop from its butt. Around the base of the...

one of my 5 day old Ameraucana chicks is already starting to show its comb. Does this mean it's going to route of cockerel? Would love to know some opinions. Thanks!

Hi. I'm new to the site and fairly new to chickens. This is my first post. I've had chickens for over a year (all bought at almost laying age, a mix of different breeds) but recently we came upon some fertilized eggs (amaraucana) There were eight in total and now we are at two left. Most were...