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My white leghorn's comb has turned white on the top and started to scab. We had some very cold weather with windchills in the negatives. I watched the girls and everyone seemed okay, but then I noticed her comb turned white on the ends. It has some scabs that I can't tell if they are from the...

I've been doing lots of research on Bumblefoot on here and on the web. My girl has a very swollen foot. I turned her foot over and it had what I thought was the scab on the bottom of her foot. We washed off her foot and I got to work on removing the scab. But, it was more like a hole in her...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/coop-made-from-a-shipping-crate.72950/ We made our coop from a shipping crate. The chicken run is an old dog pen and a car port frame.

She's not going to make it. She's opening and closing her beak and not able to lift her head anymore. I don't know what happened. I'm heartbroken.

We picked up our chickens from the hatchery on Monday and this little one seemed ok. It's now 4 days later and she can't stand and is very weak. I've been holding her all day to keep her close and warm and have given her watered down yogurt through a dropper and also some water with vitamins in...

Thank you!

I got some Polish chicks from Meyer Hatchery on May 23th. Two of the chicks died within 48 hours so they offered me a refund so I could replace those two chicks. The next available hatch wasn't until June 13th (3 weeks later), so I ordered 3 new chicks (figured 3 was better than 2)! I...

So, maybe this started with our rooster and now we have a hen continuing the feather picking? I'll do some research on how to stop that. But, I haven't witnessed any of that. Also, we are going to expand the coop in the next month so maybe that will help. It will give the girls some more...

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? I really am not sure what to do or how to treat this. They are acting normal and laying normal, but this isn't healing. Our rooster has been gone since the end of January. Any other thoughts or tips would be appreciated. Thank you.

My two RIRs both have raw, red butts and missing feathers on their butt and top. The redness and raw started when one of our chickens turned out to be a rooster (this was a surprise)! Once he started getting at the ladies we got rid of him. That was at the end of January, so I expected the...

Thank you for the link. I'm going to see about getting her cleaned up. I don't think there are any large open wounds. It's more like her feathers were rubbed off from her squirming to get unstuck. She had cement blocks on either side of her. Poor Baby.

I have 7 chickens. 2 RIR (6 months old), 3 White Leghorns (approximatly 8 months old) and 2 Buckeyes (18 weeks old). The one Buckeye gets picked on, but mostly over reacts to everything. She screams and runs to hide when another chicken gives her a sideways glance, so she is very dramatic...

I'm not real sure of anything, just what he told me. He said they were 5 months old and had just started laying.

You know, if the guy who gave me the birds hadn't been my dad's friend and wasn't a "seasoned" chicken farmer, I would not have taken these birds. I felt a bit pressured into it since he was doing my dad a favor. The guy is now in the hospital with a broken leg and needs surgery, so I can't...

Long story short, I'm a first time backyard chicken owner. I got 6 Rhode Island Red chicks in April, and 4 of them turned out to be roosters. We had to get rid of them. My dad's friend raises chickens and he gave us 3 white Leghorns. He said they were about 5 months old and had just started...

Thanks. That makes me feel better. I'm still learning! :)

We are first time backyard chicken farmers, and when we got baby Rhode Island Reds in April, 4 of the 6 turned out to be roosters. We had to get rid of the roosters, and my dad's friend told us he could give us 3 Leghorns that had just started laying (he said they are between 4-5 months old)...

I got a second one and they have bonded well and seem happy. Now, crossing my fingers they are both really female...

We had a "rooster problem" (as in, I had the luck of picking 6 baby chicks and 4 of them turned out to be roosters), so, the roosters went to "live on Uncle Ryan's farm" and my dad's friend who raises chickens gave us 3 laying Leghorns and 1 4wk old Buckeye. The Leghorns actually integrated...