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Need help with what I believe is sour crop in my rooster. I read about flushing the crop with epsom salt and water. I have also seen where people hold the bird upside down and try to squeeze the crop. Should I attempt this or just try to do the flush? I can tell he feels really bad. Not sure how...

I have a broody hen and she hatched six babies. The first two hatched one week ago yesterday. They are twins. Perfectly normal chicks. Both yellow. The third one hatched a couple of days later and is also yellow. Two days ago I had to help one hatch because the membrane had dried out. This one...

My hen had four eggs hatch yesterday. I found one of the babies soon after hatching laying down, breathing but not doing much else. I thought it would pass away but it didn't. Last night I put it in a box on some bedding to make it more comfortable and to keep the other chickens from bothering...

I have a hen that is sitting on ten eggs in a nesting box in the hen house. The hen house is up off the ground above their run. I am worried about the babies getting out of the nesting box and falling down the steps that go to the run. Once the babies all hatch should I move them to a lower area...

I have an 8 week old chick who is free ranging during the day with 25 other hens and chicks. Lives in a hen house at night. This morning when I let them out I noticed she was limping. I picked her up and she has her leg and foot drawn up close to her body. She moves around but keeps that leg...

I had a hen that hatched 18 babies two weeks ago yesterday. She integrated the babies in with the older hens and one rooster just a few days later and everyone is getting a long fine. She is a very good and protective mama. The babies are getting medicated chick feed and my hens are on a laying...

My mom noticed that some of my hens seem to have worms in their poop. What do I do about it? Also, are the eggs still safe to eat or should we not eat them? I currently have 8 hens, one rooster and 18 babies that are one week old. The egg production does not seem to be down. Getting around 7...

I have free range chickens that are put up in a coop at night. Only had chickens for about 9 months so very new to this. Had a hen go broody and she built a nest away from the coop. She has 26 eggs under her. I check on her multiple times a day and through the night. This afternoon I went to...

I had a hen go broody. She is sitting on 26 eggs that should hatch at the end of this week. She built a nest pretty far from the coop. I was told to leave her and the eggs alone until they hatch. What do I do with the baby chickens when they hatch? I can not leave them where they are because she...

I had a hen go broody and she is sitting on 26 eggs. They should hatch in about a week. What do I do when they hatch? She has made a nest away from the coop and the rest of our flock. I hatched eggs one time from an incubator last winter. What do I put her and the babies in when they hatch? We...

I have a Wyandotte hen. I noticed her missing last week one evening when I went to put the chickens in the coop. The next morning she appeared and ate and got water. They free range during the day so I didn't watch her too much. That night she was gone again. The next morning she was back...

I have a flock of 9 chickens. Two are roosters. 8 of them are almost 6 months old. I had a third rooster that I traded for a hen from a friend. This hen is about a year old. She is a barred rock. I have a couple of other barred rocks as well as some RIR and a couple of black sex links. The first...

I have some Barred rocks that I hatched myself and some Rhode Island Reds that I also hatched and I don't know if they are roosters or hens. They were 15 weeks old yesterday. Can someone tell me what they are?

My six week old chicken is still having problems with her leg today. She can sort of stand and balance but has trouble walking. Her left leg seems to fall out to the side starting at the knee joint. And when I hold her on her back her right leg will be straight but the left one falls over to the...

We are just about finished building our coop. It has a run with a hen house above it for night time. My girls will mostly be free range during the day. I have been trying to decide what kind of material to put down on the hen house floor and in the nesting boxes. I see people use sand and some...

I currently have my chicks in their brooder in my garage. Their coop is almost done. I took them out tonight to run around the garage while I cleaned up their water dish and noticed that one had its legs almost out to the side. It has never had trouble walking before. Could it have gotten...

We have recently finished our coop. It has a small run and above the run is the hen house where they will stay at night. The run will be open during the day so they can also free range. What do I do about the flooring in the run and the floor in the hen house? Do I just leave the dirt and grass...

I have 6 baby chicks that will be five weeks old on Saturday. They are pretty feathered out and they are getting way too big for their brooder. When can they go stay in their coop? I live in Texas so it is not terribly cold. Today the high was 80 but the next couple of nights they are expecting...

I hatched seven chickens almost two weeks ago. I have one that has a skeletal deformity in its legs. I took it to the vet yesterday. She splinted it better than I had and said if it continues to thrive hopefully it will learn to cope with its deformity and be ok. It can not walk but it does...

I have a chick that is a little over a week old. It is having problems walking and I am going to take it to a vet that treats chickens. How do I transport it? What about the heat lamp? I live in Texas so it is not that cold outside, tomorrow the high will be 70 but I worry about it getting cold...