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I have a chick here that hatched out either last night or this morning. It's belly is really poochy and it can't seem to get stand up on it's legs. it just sorta waddles on it's belly.

A few weeks ago I posted about a cracked egg that we incubated and hatched out a chick. After that a raccoon killed several chickens including the 2 broody hens that were hatching the eggs from which this chick came. So we couldn't sneak it back under it's mama like we planned. The chick is...

I don't know what it is getting my chickens, but it's killing them off one at a time. It's not bothering eggs that it could get, it's just killing chickens. 2 birds that it got were in a cage. The cage was not damaged, and the spaces are not far enough apart to get a chicken thru, so we're...

We have 2 hens sitting on the same nest, and they kicked some eggs out. One of them had a live chick in it, the egg was cracked, and there is a little blood showing on the outside of the egg. Help! what do we do with it?

I have a RIR rooster that was blind in one eye. Just a little bit ago, he got in a fight with another rooster and his blind eye seems to have been pecked out. There's a red chunk of flesh sticking out and his comb is bloody. What do I need to do for him?

I want to tell you about what my rooster did. He's a RIR, and I started out with him, and Clarabelle (RIR) and Helen (BR). They're the special chickens that we'll probably always keep as pets. Yesterday a dog attacked my birds, knocking the door off the tractor that had babies in it and...

Hi, A stray dog attacked a chicken yesterday. She's about 3 mos old, part anacona/game bird. I put her up for the night, gave her a chance to destress. She seems good now, except she can't support herself on her right leg. I was looking at the way she is holding her wing on that side, out...

Looking for a black female silkie somewhere around Webster Co. Ms. I have a rooster and am looking for a female to put with him. Thanks!

I've tried snake away (a powder with EO's) and I've tried lime. There's still a big black snake getting in the coop. Is there anything else that works well?

Hi Sorry, I was typing and it decided to post this before I finished. I have a silkie, pullet, who has a broken toe nail that is bleeding. I used some cornstarch hoping to slow the bleeding. She has her mouth open and is panting heavily. Is this because of the broken nail? Did I do...

How long does a rooster's.... huh-hum.... 'stuff' hang around? Say if a hen had been exposed to two different roosters within a month's time, would it be possible to determine the father?

These Silkies I was given have some really long claws! Really long and curly. Are they supposed to get long like that, or are you supposed trim them or something? None of the other chickens I have have ever had nails that long, just wondering if that's normal.

I was given a pair of silkies Monday night. I put them in the coop over night. Let them out for a little bit yesterday, put them back up- trying to establish that the coop is home. Today they don't seem to be eating or drinking. I don't know anything about silkies and their habits or...

We were given a chick (americauna), about a month old, by someone who raises chickens. It was an odd egg she stuck under a brooding hen, and she is letting us have it. Anyhow, her chickens have mites. I have no idea if this baby has mites or not ( I haven't seen it yet, dh is bringing it home...

We had some chicks hatch this afternoon. One of them has just not acted right since it hatched. It didn't get up and run around like the others did, just sorta flopped and then rested then flopped a little more. We've been watching it all afternoon, and it hasn't opened it's eyes at all...

Can y'all help me with the breed and gender? I have no idea how to sex a chick, but the man I bought these from was supposed to give me mostly females with a male or two. Now I'm trying to figure out which one is which. One of my new chicks is some sort of silver laced bird. It's a...

I hope this is the right place to talk about this? My chickens free range, and forage for most of their food but I do offer them layer pellets as they like. I have children with food allergies and it recently occurred to me that if the birds are eating food with soy and wheat in it, that it's...

I'm trying figure out what to do with all my birds here. Could use some suggestions. We have one coop and free range birds. My first flock of chickens are 2 RIR's and a BR, mature birds. The we got 2 little banties, mature, that will go into the coop to lay in the nest, but refuse to roost in...

One of the guinea keets we got yesterday is lethargic this morning. It's not the hurt one, he's doing great this morning. This one is one that was doing fine at 2:30 this morning. But at 7:00 is was very still and sleepy. He's still breathing fine, we're trying to keep it warm. I have no...

I was wanting more chickens, and not real particular about the breed. Really, I just thought it would be nice to have some easter eggers of some sort. TO have pretty eggs. I called about an add in the paper advertising all sorts of breeds. The man listed off several breeds he had. I asked...