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My dominant and leader chicken has began unexpectedly balding around her comb. This has been happening over the past 6 months to maybe a year and it seems like she is increasingly loosing more feathers everyday. She is only 3 years old too and a Red Star/golden sex-link breed.
Does...
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I need help with my chicken whose beak seems to be injured/deformed from probably being pecked on. She also has a limp in one leg but I checked out her leg wnd nothing seems to be wrong.
Please please help me as I don't know how to get her beak to look normal again or fix her...
My silver laced Wyandotte has mysteriously lost some feathers on her upper wing. I have done some research and people suggest that it could be due to lice or mites. HOWEVER I checked her very thoroughly and she doesn't have any bugs whatsoever!
Do you have any idea what else it could be? Could...
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I am reaching out to ask what to do about my precious Buff Orpington's skin on her backside right below her vent. (See picture.) I trimmed her feathers because poop was collecting on there since she's so fluffy! But now the skin several months later has become red and looks...
My chicken who recovering from her prolapsed cloaca and bruised leg has been producing these extremely watery poops. I just checked on her today and this is what it looked like. I am sort of concerned because I don't think this is healthy. I think she has been drinking an unusual amount of water...
So my chicken has been having a limp leg for about two months now. She avoids putting pressure on it when she hobbles from place to place.
When I was giving her a bath today I finally looked at her skin and saw right above it that her skin was green. I tried to move her toes and they are very...
Is it true chickens are not supposed to eat tomatoes? Someone told me this and they said if they do they will stop laying for the rest of their lives. Is this true?
So my chicken is recovering from a prolapsed cloaca and has a limp leg (possibly from osteoporosis or a tumor) so she is in a box in one of my rooms of my house.
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Does a Light Brahma count as a meat bird? I know with meat and market birds you are only supposed to feed them for 12 hours a day so they don't get a heart attack. I know Cornish count as this but I was wondering if it was for Light Brahma breeds too.
Thanks!
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I am new to this website but I have been raising chicken for 15 years. One of my oldest living chickens is 10 years old and counting. She is a Welsummer and going strong like a spring chicken!
However, I have never had a sick chicken until now. I have a sweet Buff Orpington who is...
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My sweet girl who is a Buff Orpington of eight years named Daisy has recently been suffering from a limp leg since the beginning of June. She experienced this same symptom of a paralyzed leg this past March for about two weeks. I gave her antibiotics for about a week and then a few...