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We ordered 25 RI Reds from Welp hatchery at the beginning of November last year. We ordered all females, but lately we have started to wonder the sex on about 3 of them. They're just significantly larger than their sisters. I've attached a photo of one of the suspected cockerels and of the same...

After I set that last post I realized the yard seemed much bigger and they actually have a 6x 25 ft (I've never been a good length estimator) and the Green Miuntain Organic feed they have right now is 17% crude protein. Which is wha we have been using, with success, for 5 years now. My concern...

Thy will be 1 month old tomorrow - they have a 3x10 ft area in our greenhouse on soil and shavings with hay to scratch in. They have had 1 butternut squash they haven't touched and one cabbage. They are still on layer starter crumbles, organic... I can't recall the brand right now. No added...

Keeping for chickens for over five years I figured we have a good track record of managing our new flocks, but something seems to have slipped through. We got 25 new layers (Rhode Island Red) one month ago. We live in Sothern Maine, and are raising these layers to supplement our egg sales for...

So strange the exploding! Yes, we only feed our chickens scrambled eggs (from cracking in the coop!) and keep shells and feed back to them after baking them and crushing them real fine. We will try today with round two of mustard egg filling - we hope this helps to solve the issue. We fear we...

We have an egg eating problem in our flock and we haven't been able to manage it well this winter... In Maine the freezing weather (coupled with our newborn daughter and all the time dedicated to her!) caused a lot of early spring eggs to freeze, crack open.... Then be eaten when we couldn't get...

Okay. Thanks.

I wonder, though, if they were molting. They came to us rather battered and abused by their former flock - the feathers that they did have were hardly feathers at all - more like half feathers or 3/4 feathers. The lack of feathers was very clearly from being picked on, not at all like the...

About a month and a half ago we were given six "mangy" australorps from a friend who could no longer tend them. They had been pretty badly abused by the other chickens from our friends flock - they came to us skinny, with bare butts and some had no feathers on their necks. They were, however...

So for the past 3-4 days we have had them on ACV water, with a couple mornings of doing about 4 hours each time of molasses water to try and help flush stuff out. They have been getting a little food in the morning and evening. First just yoghurt and garlic, and then now they are getting...

Thanks Michael. I'll see if I can pick up some pedialyte this morning at the pharmacy. I didn't think I should give them any actual feed, but it seems like you're saying I should try? I just didn't want to add to the blockage too much if it's still going on. This morning I put out 3T of...

I can't tell if there's still blockage or what, but their crops are certainly still squishy and larger than the other birds. Maybe like, golfball size? But when I've tried to clear it today, not as much comes out and I don't want to push it too far either. I did four hours today of...

In terms of eggs. We've never checked for a stuck egg before. I am *fairly* sure it's not a stuck egg, as we had araucana eggs up until the day I moved Dottie in, and had one yesterday as well. So I know Ari must be laying just fine, as she laid one yesterday before I moved her inside, but...

Thanks for all the help and input! Here are my latest updates: * Yesterday I got Dottie (the araucana) to expel some of the nasty sour fluids by holding her tightly like a football, and bending myself over so she was turned upside down. I gently massaged and squeezed her crop and soon after, a...

Now with Nystatin (or any treatment for that matter), do you need to empty the crop manually (I have read about doing this with a catheter tube and syringe) or will it work either way? I just want to do right by her. Here she is, doing her shaky chest thing, after drinking some of the ACV...

Well, I called three different feed stores this morning asking if any of them had either acidified copper sulfate or nystatin. No dice. I may order some from Murray McMurray hatchery online if I can't find anything local. And just keep her on ACV + water for now until we figure it out. So yes...

We have an 11 month Araucana, who appears to have a sour crop issue. It's very full and squishy. We have isolated her to our garage in a caged off area, and have her on just water and apple cider vinegar (Braggs). It's only been about 5 hours since we did that so we'll see how she does. I did...

Thanks for the replies, folks. As I said, I have them in some shade but I'll certainly give them some more.

We've had out chickens outside during days for about 2 weeks now, and they really seem to be opposed to direct sunlight. Is this just a phase that they will eventually grow out of or might we not have gotten them outside early enough? They're about 9 weeks old, and fully feathered out. Maybe we...

Well, we're on our 7th day of Corid and she seemed to be doing better up until yesterday when she began falling asleep standing up again. Not as much as she had been last week, but it's still happening. Could this just be...her own personal quirk? Should we continue treatment, or stop and see...