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I just came home from two weeks vacation, and I just looked at my rooster and I'm just crying out loud. My poor baby-boy! His comb has been all but torn off from the back towards the front and is barely attached. It's just flopping into his face. I had several dear, reliable friends watching...

I posted about this a few days ago, and didn't get a single response, so I' trying again, but wording it differently and asking a slightly different question, and hope somebody will chime in. Last week, my 14 week old Langshan/Brahma cross stopped using her right leg. It is not getting...

My 14 week old Langshan/Brahma cross stopped using her right leg 4 days ago. This happened very suddenly. I've assumed that she got knocked off a roost by an older hen and injured the leg. I've checked for breaks, and definitely no breaks. I've felt and rotated each joint, and I'm not feeling...

My Black sex-link has been getting her neck-feathers picked for the past year. Oddly, she never seems to mind. Some other hens have some neck-feathers picked as well. I see the hens standing around in a cuddle-huddle, and they just casually reach over to each other and pick necks. The ones...

My beautiful, big Mottled Java hatched out 11 chicks today. I had not anticipated that hatch rate! Can she keep this many babies warm and safe, or should I take some from her and raise them in the brooder?

I have fertile eggs. I have a broody hen. Yay! So excited! How do I make this successful. The broody hen is in a community nest box, sitting on 8 eggs. I have a "maternity ward" that I want to move her in to. It's a dog kennel with lots of comfy straw in a corner of the run. The last time I...

I have 2 gorgeous 8 month old Langshan roosters protecting my 13 hens. They are brothers, and aside from an occasional stand-off with each other (a "you want a piece of THIS" look), they do not fight. Can this work out, or should I reduce to just one? The reason I have 2, is because my first...

Little Ameilia has been a bit under the weather for the past 10 days. She would just kind of huddle and mope around with a droppy tail. Her comb and wattle are skin-colored - very little pink at all. She was having small, wet, bright-green poos. Amelia is a Turken, hatched May 2012. She...

I've been out of the country for a couple of weeks. While gone, my husband found my rooster one evening stuck. He had somehow gotten his toe caught in something in our lumber-shed, lost his balance, and ended up hanging upside-down for who-knows how long. He weighs a good 8 pounds, and was...

I found this stuff: http://www.bugspraycart.com/exempt/liquid/eco-excempt-gal Sounds like it would be great stuff to douse the coop with to get rid of mites. Has anyone tried it? Is it safe for use around birds?

So we established in an earlier thread that I have mites in my coop. It's old, made of wood, and has lots of good hiding places. Tomorrow I'm going to clean it out and dust with sevin. Before dusting with Sevin, I'm going to clean really well. What's the best way to get these little buggers...

I collected an egg from the nestbox today, and it had some specks of orange "fuzz" on it. I bushed the specks off, then realized they were little bugs. My first assumption is that if they're in the coop, my flock is probably infested. End of story. Get out the chemicals. Hose everything down...

I have 9 mature hens. They range in age from 1-6 years old. While I was on vacation for 3 weeks, my husband said we were getting 5 eggs a day. He ke[t them in their 1/4-acre enclosure. When I came home from vacation, I started letting them out to free-range again, and we dropped to 1 egg a...

I don't ordinarily look at my chickens' feet. Last week, my daughter was holding my big cochin, and I saw the bottoms of her feet. She has a huge, dime-sized black callous/scab. She has slight swelling, no redness, and no limp at all, but it's obvious bumblefoot. Last night I soaked her foot in...

I'm stumped. I have 12 hens, and I'm getting 2-3 eggs a day. My 1-year-old chicks aren't even laying much, if anything. Last year I got 6-9 eggs a day this time of year. I thought that maybe it's because they free-range so much that they don't eat enough layer-pellets (pellets and free-range...

This is so cool!!!! My Mottled Java sure was working hard in the nest-box last week. She plopped out an egg the size of a duck-egg - 89 grams! I figured it must be a whopping double-yolker. I just hard-boiled it to use in some potato salad. We all gathered around to watch me slice it in half...

I bought Lilly as a pullet at 1 day old. She's my first Langshan. I know they're tall, upright, beefy birds, but this little girl is so upright and leggy that I'm really wondering if she might be Billy and not Lilly. I did find some guideline saying to look for bare wing-bows, bare along the...

So my adopted flock has been slowly shrinking from EYP. I have 2 more dying right now. I've been learning all I can about EYP. And today it really sunk in - one of them IS NOT dying from EYP. She is not an internal layer. Definitely not. Holy Chickenfeathers!!! I got so excited, because maybe I...

I have a lovely flock that I inherited from some neighbors 18 months ago. they were old when I got them. In the past 18 months, I have had 2 succomb to EYP. I have another that definitely has EYP, and 2 more that I think might be in the early phases of it. I was at the feed store getting...

I finally got too frustrated stumbling around int he dark trying to find something to help poor Henrietta, so I was able to find the only avian vet in the county. I took her in as much out of curiosity and wanting to learn and understand as much as hoping to save her. The vet found that she...