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My rooster has... zits? Mega zits. It seems that the comb grows over a skin sluf location and makes this pocket of white paste like material. Some are harder. Took to it with tweezers and pulled some crazy balls of yitch out. Some were about 1/4 " in diameter. Rooster wasn't too happy but...

I've seen several post where people say snakes will not eat golf balls. This snake ate 2 eggs and a chick under a broody mother. I wasn't sure what had got the chick as I was traveling for business. At the time I didn't have any golf balls in the nest so I put another egg and a golf ball in...

I've seen several post where people say they will not eat golf balls. This snake ate 2 eggs and a chick under a broody mother. At the time I didn't have any golf balls in the nest so I put another egg and a golf ball in. Next day there was the snake (Bull Snake) and egg and golf ball were...

Got a hen that has a swollen belly. Read LOTS and have started trying treatments. In reviewing threads this seemed the most similar. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/871994/sick-hen-with-foamy-yellow-poop-help-update-diagnosed-with-egg-yolk-peritonitis/30 She is something of an outcast...

In my first hatching from a broody hen one of the chicks had some trouble and the setup wasn't great. The chicks were in a nest box. Somehow the first born had gotten out and the mother was down on the floor of the coop with it rather than in the nest box with the others. There was one egg on...

I've notice that when an egg hatches or even a partially developed egg is broken there is a very strong scent. It also seems to affect the chickens. I've had eggs pecked and broken with partial development. When I took it out and was washing it off the other chickens took note of it and hung...