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3 yr old buff orpington roo was attacked last summer by a fox but recovered. Now he is noticed to be very lethargic, laying around, and with patches of feather loss. I brought him in to see what's happening and found tiny yellowish larve(head of a pin size) and all remaining feathers have lint...

We have 35 chickens and 6 are roosters. Heard sound from the coop after dark and went to check. All look fine but 1 leghorn with bloody? Head. Took her in and cleaned her off But I can't really see a source of the problem. Any ideas. Everyone else seems fine. Everything was cleaned and...

4 batches of this years chicks made a flock of 19 hens 2 roos and a guinnea hen. They are in an 8 x 16 shed with 1/2 roosting and 1/2 food water and supplies. They are all mature now an im getting 2 eggs a day. Cleaned the coop, checked the feed, they free range about 2 hrs a day and have a 10...

I lost 5 chickens around 6 am. 1 full grown welsommer roo, 3 buff orpingtons, and 1 americuna. Found only small bunches of feathers but they were in separate areas of the yard. 1 clump about 175 feet from their covered run in an area they never free range to, a flurry of orpington feathers...

Please help. I've raised a couple flocks before but I have 6 babies, 2 breeds, and they all have what appears to be swollen crops but just on the right side. This happened since I started putting them outside 4 days ago. They scratch and roll in the dirt but are given feed and water, of...

All these hens and I'm getting 4 eggs a day...4 mature RI reds used to lay an egg a day, 2 wyandotes, 2 silver lace orpingtons, and 1 brown one nicely recovered from a near death experience. I bought 12 Buff Orpington strait run chicks and they are maturing. I've found 2 pullet eggs in the...

The hen is a silver lace orpington- she was broody when we adopted her last year, she assimilated into our flock and went broody again 3 weeks ago. She sat well on 5 eggs, originally 6, 1 was broken. they have hatched 4: 2 the 1st day, found in the mulch around her, well formed but dead...

Good Morning, I have an existing flock of mixed breeds ( 2 silver lace, 2 wyandote, 1 brown pretty no idea, and 4 RI red..and 1 big bold leghorn roo) I have 12 buff Orp chicks, started in March that are in the run but the 2 groups don't mix. 3 weeks ago one of the silver lace went broody and...

I am new to chickens but generally good with animals and I have a very sick hen, or she is old and dying. I first noticed it after a skunk got the other brown hen from the henhouse. She was not moving and puffed with her head tucked. She was not eating, or she was deferring to the other hens...

Hello There, I got some chicks this spring and it changed my life. I am a much happier calmer person now...and I spend a lot of time trying make these girls comfortable. I have 6 light chicks born this spring who keep flying over the fence and making me crazzzzy, so today I clipped wings.(1...