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I have 9 chickens and most of them have bumble foot Zzz. I'm assuming its from the wood shavings and from jumping up and down the roost. So i worked on two chickens so far.. taking it slowly since I'm super fresh at this. My first chicken i worked on had a veryyyyyyy mild bumble foot and it...

I have 9 chickens and most of them have bumble foot Zzz. I'm assuming its from the wood shavings and from jumping up and down the roost. So i worked on two chickens so far.. taking it slowly since I'm super fresh at this. My first chicken i worked on had a veryyyyyyy mild bumble foot and it...

I have two easter eggers and they both lay different colored eggs of course. One lays a bright pastel blue egg and another lays a dusty green egg. My phones camera isnt justifying their colors.. sorry =( the left egg was laid by chico, and the right was from beef. Without flash With flash...

Today I noticed that the tips of my hens combs have a dark purple tinge on them. Their combs are still standing and still bright red. Although I worry about the purple tips... My hens are all eating and drinking..and are still very active lol. Is there something I should be worrying about...

alll of my chickens been laying for 2 months now, and never any eggs with soft shells. today i think two of my chickens laid soft shell eggs because there were two broken soft shell eggs, one was white and another that was tinted pastel green ish. is there something i should be worrying about...

Ive noticed three of my older chickens have been picking on my youngest hen. They pecked the corner of her eye and around that her eyelid is now scabbed. Today morning i saw foam in the corner of her eye. The same eye she was pecked. I tried wiping/cleaning the foam away, but its kind of...

I live in a city where raising chickens is permitted. I told my side neighbors before i was going to raise chickens as pets, and they were fine about it. The only question the elderly couple that lives on my left had was "will they be loud?" I told them "i dont know, we'll just have to wait...

i have 10 chickens and out of all of them..my two bo's have very dull feathers that isnt soft. my two australorps whom have the glossiest coats/softest...makes me question if my two bo's are sick? the bo's look healthy(aside from their coats), drinking and eating well. their combs are bright...

I noticed all my chickens have these black specs on the tip of their tail feathers. They didnt have it before, but overtime it started happening. They arent mites because i inspect my chickens daily. The specs are only on their tails. Is this normal?

My chicken started laying her eggs on monday!! Then two days later she decides to eat her own egg, and the rest of her friends join in. It has been two days now, and Two eggs eaten. Can someone recommend me cams that have night vision, wireless, adjustable, and just i dont know, anything that...

I feed my chickens cooked rice mixed with a little bit of chicken meal EVERDAY...morning and afternoon. It's what my parents would feed them back when they were farmers in china. They fed them uncooked rice so i dont know if thats just as unhealthy as cooked rice. I dont want to feed them...

I've only been raising chickens for about half a year now, but I've done my research of each breed of chicken before raising them. I like all personalities (-2) so far; some of my chickens could be mean to the others, but hopefully, thats normal. Anyways, I've been losing my patience recently...

I have 8 chickens 2 golden comets, 2 australorps, 2 buff orpingtons, and one barred rock. The barred rock and one of the buff orpingtions are very friendly with me, but every so often the barred rock growls idk if its directly towards me, but she walks around growling. Both of the golden...

What can I feed her so that she'll stop doing this? Shes literally chasing the other chickens even if theyre bigger than her and just yanking the feathers off of them and just eating it.

Do chicken nails have to be trimmed?

Been looking at baby chick pictures on google looool and i saw these color dyed baby chicks. Ive seen them on pictures way back too, and have always wondered what happens to them because there are never any pics of them when theyre older. Can someone tell me?

I ordered 10 chicks from my pet chicken, one passed, and one came out a roo. A month later after ordering them, i decided i wanted a silkie so i bought 2 more chicks (one buff silkie and another ee) The silkie was supposed to be a girl, but turned out to be a rooster so my chances of keeping...

I bought a 50lb bag of layer 16% mash and my chickens havent laid an egg yet. I have two that are 8 weeks old(silkie roo and an ee pullet) and eight 16 week pullets. I was orginally looking for chick feed but the feed store had ran out and only had this left. I asked him if it was okay to feed...

My barred rock jimmie was preening herself earlier, and i saw a weird bump that she was "preening". It is on he back by her tail feathers. It looked weird, and it has a little tiny growth of feather growing out of it. I felt it, it wasnt so hard, still kind of fleshy feeling, but with a...

i was giving my silkie a bath and i noticed this big clump of manure looking thing stuck to his feet feather. the stubborn thing was so hard to wash off and eventually it gave in, but sadly it wasnt manure. that thing was dried blood on the bottom shaft area of one of his foot feathers..along...