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Eggs were shipped halfway across Canada. Breeding group was 7 months old at time of egg collection. Silver Ameraucana. The initial candle after resting the eggs showed a few saddled air cells but nothing else obvious to me. (First time with shipped eggs.) Day 10 candle with a low-battery...

My only suspicion is a slipped tendon and I've tried four times already to fix it (gently push leg back and massage tendon into place) but it won't budge and it causes the chick to shriek bloody murder (which worries me as I think it's a pain shriek). The leg will not straighten out. The chick...

This young hen's tail was completely savaged today by her flock. Her tail is completely gone, there's blood all over, and something fleshy is sticking out. Her rear end is now drooping to the ground. I can barely see anything for flesh and blood. I have her in the basement shower right now (it's...

1) What type of bird, age and weight Barred rock, little over six months, weighs the same as others her age and size 2) What is the behavior, exactly. I noticed yesterday she was hanging around the laying area and was just sitting around, so I thought maybe she was waiting to lay an egg. Today...

After having chickens since last July, I finally lost a chicken to a predator. Not something I ever wanted to say, but I was aware it would happen sooner or later. I had just finished checking on the chickens just half an hour before. I had them all accounted for. When I went to lock them up as...

I lost three of my 25 hatchery chicks in the first three days I had them - found one each morning. First a Buff Orpington, a Black Australorp, then a Delaware. It left me with three BOs, three BAs, three Delawares, four Barred Rocks, and nine Easter eggers. Two of the EEs have turned out to be a...

My chicks (9 weeks tomorrow) have been in the coop for quite some time, in a fenced off area to protect them from the adults (most notably the nasty rooster, Itchy). This past weekend my dad took care of Itchy and now he's in the freezer (RIP ), which leaves me with two hens (Yappy and Cochina)...

So I've been feeding my chicks starter feed for the past five weeks. Over a week ago while at the feed store I asked the lady what to move them up to next since I know that they should be weaned off the starter after six weeks and the brand available seems to be much more different than what...

I'll try and keep this short. Basically, the chickens have taken a liking to hanging around the deck and the bird feeder, which are about twenty feet from each other. The bird feeder hangs from a post so the chickens can't get to it directly, but they will hang around until the birds fling out...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. Rhode Island Red cross, at least two years old (purchased last year, seller said she and the other hen were a year old), weight unknown. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. I forget exactly when it started, but one day I walked into the coop to find that...

My three-week-old chicks have a red heat lamp, are on shavings, and the brooder/coop is over 7' x 7' (something like 88"x7' or 88"x8', I forget). The lamp is in their smaller brooder cage (used that until they outgrew it last week, has open bottom so they can choose where to be), where I set up...

I don't know what happened, but for some reason one of my Easter egger chicks started favouring its right leg tonight. I noticed it after I had picked it up and gently pulled off some droppings from its back (I've seen them poop on each other! Crazy!) while keeping an eye out for at-risk pasty...

I picked up my 25 chicks Thursday night. They all survived the long journey from Texas (Ideal Poultry) to Canada. Yesterday morning I found a deceased Buff Orpington. Late last night I noticed a Black Australorp was smaller than the others and very weak, and I had a feeling she was failing to...

Some of you may know about my situation with a young rooster of mine who is excessively aggressive, both to humans and hens. Lately his technique with the hens has been improving, so feather loss is getting to be a thing of the past. But where one situation improves, another worsens. A couple...

My sole provider of eggs (Yappy) stopped laying about two weeks ago, and I'm noticing more and more often that she is now having pure liquid diarrhea. I'm not sure what's wrong, as her diarrhea has never been this bad before (she had it for a bit when I first got her, likely from stress). There...

Yesterday my mom came back into the house after feeding the chickens, yelling, "I [censored] hate Itchy!" While she was scooping feed out of the bin, Itchy had attacked her. Pecked and kicked his feet at her leg. So I told her to come with me to the coop (we're keeping them in the coop for the...

Last week my mom, sister, and I drove two hours each way to bring this girl home. While we were at our destination we ate burgers and fries at the Dairy Queen. First time I can say that their food actually tasted good! She's absolutely beautiful. Even after bathing her the discolouration from...

These days, the chickens come running when they see me. But they still run away when I try to pet them, and freak out (and cry bloody murder) when I hold them. Yappy is still Yappy, but isn't quite so much the instigator that she was during the first few days that she was here. Still laying...

... My phone line has been dead for over half an hour now. Intense, close lightning caused a minor outage and killed the phone line. Luckily the power is still on, and the internet is connected via internet data stick, so I can still contact family members to let them know the animals and I...

I think it was the 'quiet hen' that laid today's egg. So I found it, picked it up, saw a dent, and felt around there. Soft!!!! They have laying feed, get free range, are as happy as can be (from what I can tell). All of the chickens had a dust bath yesterday. Today it's raining, and I opened...