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This morning I found one dead chicken in my coop. She had no apparent signs of trauma, and she seemed fine yesterday, so I'm not sure what happened. Now, I have a rather lethargic chicken. She has simply been sitting next to our duck pond, and drinking an excess amount of water. She seems fine...

I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with this hen. A couple weeks ago she had some kind of eggbound issue, or something where she was trying to lay a yolk that had been cooked inside of her? I removed most of it, but couldn't really clean it up entirely.Here is a picture of what she looked...

Hi, This morning I found my chicken with a large yellow lump stuck to her butt. I soaked her in a warm bath and was able to remove most of it, but some is still stuck. I'm not exactly sure what happened or what I should do. I think she may have been laying a shelless egg and it stuck halfway out...

I noticed a couple minutes that my female, one and a half year old Pekin duck was walking around with one eye shut. After I went out and picked her up, she did open her eye easily, but it looks like there is definitely something wrong around the outside. Here are some pictures of first the eye...

I noticed a couple minutes that my female, one and a half year old Pekin duck was walking around with one eye shut. After I went out and picked her up, she did open her eye easily, but it looks like there is definitely something wrong around the outside. Here are some pictures of first the eye...

Hi, I have a red star pullet (she is about 21 weeks, and not yet laying) and yesterday afternoon she got into my neighbors yard with several dogs in it. I wasn't there at the time but this morning I went outside and found her sitting in a corner, not standing. At first I thought maybe she...

This is my first time raising ducks, and I'm wondering if there's a way to tell the gender of my three Pekin ducks yet. If so any advice? I can provide pictures if neccesary. Also will they be full grown by this age? It seems like 10 weeks is pretty young still (my 10 week old chicks are still...

My mom worked at a party on Easter where the owners had ducklings and chicks for the kids to play with and afterwards they would just throw them away :/ So this time we rescued both, however I have never raised ducklings before and I have some questions. 1. We don't have a pond but we have a...

My mom worked at a party on Easter where the owners had some baby chicks for their grandchildren to play with- afterwards they would just let them die so we rescued them, and now I'm wondering what kind they are. I was thinking possible female red stars or rhode island reds? They are probably...

Hi guys, I have a pullet who wouldn't come out of the coop today. I took her out and set her down, but she just lay down sort of on her side and wouldn't get up or move. She seems very weak and wobbly, and unable to stand well. The main problem I've noticed with her is very runny droppings...

It always work, as soon as you give up on them, they lay ;) She sat on the nest box all morning, and I was finally rewarded with this (quite large for a first egg) beauty. So very happy! It was a very long 57-week wait! She's has some health problems, so perhaps that was what...

This is my awesome hen, Luna, on a walk around our town! Chicken's recently got legalized in my city, so we went to celebrate! She's a really sweet hen (and very slow), so we hooked her up with a handmade harness. She's seven years old! I've had her for five years =) Me and her near our...

My White Leghorn hen (2 years) was lying down in the run today on her side, her legs sticking out. I picked her up and she seems unable to stand. I checked her all over, and her legs seem fine, her vent, she doesn't seem egg-bound. I felt her crop though, and it feels like it's full of sand...

We *might* be moving here, and I wanted to see what the chicken ordinances are. The main thing I came across was this: "No person shall raise or keep chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas, peafowl or rabbits within the City, and the raising or keeping thereof is declared a public nuisance...

My wheaten maran is 11 months old today and not a single egg from her. She's very little, but she has a reddish comb. She is very flighty and does not even squat or seem at all interested in the nestboxes/coops. No egg song ever :( Is she just never going to lay an egg? Because that's what it's...

It's looking like this about 75% of the time I open a thread... Very odd.

What could be going on? She's a wheaten maran- and we are sure she is not laying- not hidden nests or anything. I really hope she starts soon, I can't imagine why she isn't. She is not squatting- but that may just be because she's really flighty. She does have a pretty reddish comb/wattles, but...

I've never really been around bantams; I have no experiance with them...but I'm wondering if my Salmon Faverolle pullet is a bantam. She just seems pretty small for her age We got her from some other chicken finatics who we have gotten alot of chickens from- all the other ones have been large...

I have two younger pullets, one wheaten maran (who is 35 weeks and has not yet layed an egg ), and one salmon faverolle, seventeen weeks, who is also not matured yet. Will they (fully) molt this year? Some of my other hens are currently in molt, but they haven't shown signs of it yet.

My girl has been losing alot of feathers on her belly and wings. Is it too early for molting, or is it something else?