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Oh no--We just hatched 2 chicks (the natural way--using a broody hen), and at 3 weeks, I just noticed one of them has a crossed beak. Looks pretty bad, but the chicks are almost the same size and growing every day--so far no one is undernourished. They have a GREAT mamma who dotes on them...

Hi, I'm new to chickens--only had my full grown Ameraucanas for a couple of months now. 10 hens and a rooster. Suddenly, one of the girls has been sitting in one of the nests for 2 straight days. I can't get her to move. She isn't aggressive, she actually seems like she's trying to ignore...

Previously she had an open sore, which turned out to be from the rooster. That healed up, and then a couple of weeks ago she was limping very badly for several days. She mostly stayed in the coop, and then she got better, limp almost gone. Now yesterday I noticed she wasn't coming over for...

I just noticed today one of my 11 hens has an egg-sized open wound/sore on her back side, to the side of the vent. All of the feathers are missing from the wound area. Some of her other feathers look a bit disheveled too, like maybe she got in a fight or something. The area isn't bleeding...

My neighbors are moving and they offered me their 11 hens and a rooster. They range from a couple of years to about 5 years old each. I don't know what kind they are (some are black/white striped, some are golden, one is black, a couple are reddish), but they're the "normal" chicken size--kind...