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My two year old hen tangled with a hawk today and came away with a couple of gashes under her wing and a wound to the breast. I would love some advice on the chest... I can't quite figure out what to do. There's a blob of fat that is hanging down out of the wound. I removed some feathers...

My girl had a half-dollar sized patch of skin under her wing torn off by a fox 11 days ago. She is healing remarkably well... the wound is looking better each day. I have kept her in the house except for short, well supervised excursions outside recently. Well, tonight wasn't so well supervised...

Hi all, one of my 2 year old red sex-links has been doing poorly for about a week. Her abdomen below her vent is very swollen with fluid, her comb is dark and droopy, she's lethargic and hasn't been laying. I thought that she was egg bound, but after a few warm sitz baths and inspecting her vent...

Having a bad night, here. We've had a marauding raccoon coming around for the last week. My coop is pretty tight, but my DH forgot to close the door tonight and now my poor Curly girl is in rough shape. I've cleaned her wounds with h2o2 and packed them with neosporin. Gave her Rescue Remedy. She...

Two of my hens have some rooster damage from mating and I am worried about them with winter coming up. One has a pretty big bald spot on her back and the other is bare on the "elbow" of her wing! They are a year and a half old and haven't molted yet. How can I protect them from frostbite?

1) What type of bird , age and weight. Red sex link, 1 yo, a little skinny, but fairly normal weight 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Standing around, not foraging, listless, wings held out like she's hot, head tucked, tail up, vent is really dirty underneath and sort of open and pulsing...

This just about killed me... I chucked a wilted head of lettuce in for the chickies and they tore it apart in seconds. Problem was that they couldn't rip into the loose leaves. Well, Big Boy made his treat noise and proceeded to pick up lettuce leaves and hold them in his beak for the girls...

My girl's comb flops to the side and has started looking bad. I noticed that she's getting picked on this weekend... mostly pecked on the comb. There's no blood. I can't tell if the black spots are dirt, pox or scabs. There is kind of a whitish, powdery haze over the comb toward the...

My DH is very allergic to wheat. He felt that he was reacting from the layer pellets I was using, so a couple of months ago we came up with a custom mash based on the Fertrell formula. The birds are doing well on it. The problem is that it is a pain in the butt to make. Every time we start...

One of my coworkers gave me this huge bag of frozen currants and I have been thawing some out once a week for the chickens. Well, this morning, Mr. Big was a little overexuberant, and I ended up dumping a bunch of them and the juice right on his back! Of course, he then ran away so the berries...

It's SNOWING!!!

What can I do for him? Are there specific things I should look out for? I didn't see what happened... just the dog running off. I gave him 3 drops of rescue remedy before I checked him over. I found him after a half hour of searching. He was right on the deck in an empty planter. Poor guy...

Oh, I am so lucky! I usually move our Catawba style tractor first thing in the morning while the birds are still upstairs locked in the coop, but I was lazy this morning and came out to do it a little while ago. Well, somebody tried to escape when I lifted it and ended up getting caught...

It was recommended that I give my bird copper sulfate in her water for a crop issue. Do I have to make up a new solution each day or can I just keep using from the same batch? Also, I have seen it recommended in several places to add ACV to the water along with the copper sulfate. I was not...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. SLW / Lt. Brahma pullet, about 6 months old, normal weight 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Slow, labored breathing with gaping beak. Tucking neck in, but occasionally gasps, shreiks and shakes head. Closing eyes, lethargic. 3) Is there any bleeding...

I was holding one of the girls today and noticed that she had little black mold / mildew looking spots on her white tail feathers. There is no mold or mildew in their environment, nor is the coop or run wet. Should I try to wash it off? Using what?

There was something the size and shape of a lemon seed floating in the white of one of my eggs today! It was actually a coil of soft tissue... I'm at work, so I couldn't get a picture of it. Should I be worried?

My DH built a great catawba-style coop for our 4 girls and it has been awesome this warm season. We move it every day so they always have fresh forage. What can I do when the snows come and I can't move it? I am concerned mostly with the run area and poo build-up. Would something like the...

My DH is VERY allergic to wheat. He insists that he is reacting to the wheat in the girl's layer pellets even though- a) The feed is stored outside in airtight containers b) I do all of the feeding c) I wash my hands before I come in the house so as not to get wheat dust on stuff! Anyway, he...

I was sitting outside enjoying the sunshine when I heard my girls making a fuss. I saw something move in the brush at the edge of the yard... a juvenile raccoon! It ran down the bank toward the river when I hollered. Two minutes later, I heard the most horrible blood-curdling scream! It went...