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I have a beautiful Buff Orpington, Gertrude, who was fine one minute, eating/drinking/scratching...then she sat down and started open mouth breathing. Since then, she is just laying there, not very responsive, panting and shaking. I removed her from the run, since the others started to bother...

I have a 2yr old RIR that has a bad case of Ascites. In hindsight, I noticed her abdomen being somewhat larger than my other hens, several months ago, but just figured it was her unique anatomy. Well, fast forward to now, and I found this girl standing in a corner, upright, with her abdomen...

I though that chickens could not see at night? Well, I have one Barred Rock that leaves the roost every night, and goes to the feeder in the coop and has a late night snack. I have found that she does this at least once or twice each night. She seems to see just fine…and don’t let the camera...

So, I have mentioned this off and on for the past couple of months, but my oldest Hen, Gwyneth, an ISA Brown (3yr, 9mo), had not been doing so well. A few weeks back I had posted where she was struggling, but she overcame that issue and was "normal" again for a few weeks. About a week ago, she...

So I have been struggling a bit with this issue. When to know for sure when a hen is so ill that it is a mercy to put them down. In my recent case, my boss hen, Gwyneth, became ill with something. About eight weeks ago, she started becoming lethargic, and spending portions of her day just...

Hen is a 3 1/2 year old ISA Brown. Her name is Gwyneth, and she is the top hen of a flock of other mixed breeds. She is the oldest of the current bunch. Some history....she stopped laying about 10 months ago. Her comb shrunk back down, and her legs returned to a yellow color, like they were...

Looks like Indonesia has the right idea, and an incentive I could get behind, in order to go be vaccinated! Million dollars...meh...free chickens?....count me in.... http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/vw4xrOIXKXs/free-chicken-covid-19-vaccine-indonesian-town.cnn

Sadly, one of my three year old ISA Brown hens is not doing well. She has been very lethargic for three days now. Sometimes, she sits, but mostly she just stands hunched up, head down, eyes closed. Her comb is purple at the tips and back end, she won't eat, but she will drink. The problem is...

I have a 10, almost 11 month old Barred Rock Cockerel in need of a new home. He's been pretty good with my flock of 8, but has recently started to not get along with my one hen who is 2 years older than he is. She just won't submit to him, and it's causing some issues for her. He has never...

I have a cockerel, about 10 months old, that started attacking on of my older hens today. Up till now, they all got along fine. The hen being attacked is a 3 year old ISA Brown, that is currently molting. She hasn’t been herself lately, and some of that is due to the molting. She has quite a...

My hen Gwyneth is not feeling well. This started yesterday, but today she is worse off. She's an almost three year old ISA Brown. She went into molt about 6 weeks ago, and stopped laying then. Since then, she has pretty much been her normal self until yesterday. She was slow moving around...

This morning, when I went out to the coop, I found one of my 9 month old Buff Orpingtons dead. She was just laying there on the floor not moving. Poor girl. She was quite stiff already, so had likely been that way for a couple of hours already. She was such a sweet one. This is my first...

Is it normal to be molting at 8 months of age? I thought that pullets don’t molt until after their first year, so second winter? I have one pullet, out of 8, that is molting. It doesn’t appear to be a full molt, as she doesn’t have any bare spots. Most of the feathers I have found were on...

I'm in Minnesota. Our winters get down to -20 to -30, usually for a few days in a row in January. Every other time between December and February, it's very common to be below zero both day and night. So I must have a heated water. Over the past few years, I have used the Farm Innovators...

So today, my 2 1/2 year old ISA Brown hen went broody. I’m guessing it is related to her also being mated by my 18 week old cockerel. I don’t know how often he has mated her, but I did witness it once already. Today I found her in the nest box, all day long. When they went to roost tonight...

I have a 6x8 coop. I currently have a single roost bar across the back 8' length of the coop. Actually, with studding, the roost is more like 7' 4". There is a poop board beneath the roost that is 20" off the floor, and the roost bar itself is 8" above that. From roost height, the eve vents...

So, some of you may have read my integration story of Gwyneth the mean hen. I had put pinless peepers in her to help with the issue. They worked great, till yesterday, when I noticed she was breathing heavily. Then later in the day, I noticed that her nostrils were bleeding. I removed the...

Forgot to mention, I have brooded the new chicks in the coop with the older ones. They are separated by a chicken wire wall, and have been able to see, but not touch for the last five weeks. I just started allowing the chicks out into their new run yesterday, which also allows see, but no...

My 8 chicks are now 5 1/2 weeks old. I have started allowing them to have supervised visits with two older hens I have. They are ISA Browns, and are just over two years old. one of the older girls (Daisy) has turned out to be super chill with the new ones. She will gently peck at them, but...

So here's the story. I got 4 Isa Brown hens in April of 2018. Of the four, I had one that became ill in March of 2019. She died in late May. Symptoms seem to be internal laying, as she had continuous issues with soft shelled eggs, on an off for most of that March. After that, it progressed...