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Got this chick with 11 different chicks from Rural King. They’re all about 4-5 weeks old. This ones about half the size of every other chick but feathering out around the same rate. Has pale/grey clean legs and rounder in the back with small tail feathers just coming in.

After all you have done to help, I can gladly say that she was back to normal in the morning! Tail up, standing tall, preening, and talking!

Thank you so much for the help, it means a lot!

I don't have the money to take her to a vet right now. I will do home remedies, but if she passes, she passes. I will follow your advice of giving egg and tuna, and I already have her in a large dog crate with food water and oyster shell.

When I soaked her I was massaging her abdomen and it felt a little bigger, not much. She laid her latest egg at least a day or two ago.

She is almost a year old, we got her as a chick April 17 of last year. Does egg peritonitis explain the heavy panting and the hump?

I did not feel an egg inside. Where her feathers are ruffled on her back is where the lump is. It may be the muscles from having the tail down but when I found her the hump was more profound.

My year old EE is lethargic, breathing heavy and fast, and there is a hump in her back on the base of her tail. I found her like this around 3pm. I thought she was egg bound, so I soaked her for 20 minutes and put vegetable oil around her vent. She did poop (fairly large) , so that rules out egg...

I won't have a pic of my setup til the morning but it is two cabinets laid on their back with the drawers facing up and the entrance is a hole through the "bottom". I'm worried that a chick will fall out and not be able to get back up. As well as trying to keep them in the box till they'll all...

I have a broody hen with a clutch of 4 eggs. The problem is that my nesting box is 3+ ft off the ground. I tried to move the hen and the eggs to a nest on the ground but she got mad and pecked open on of her eggs. So I moved everything back up and she was content. I want to know what to do when...

Hi! I have a broody black star hen that descriptively should not/ prone to going broody. Any thoughts on this?

Would anyone like to tell me what you know about ISA Browns. I.e. temperament, intelligence, free range or run, placement in a mixed flock pecking order. Thank you!

Can you explain the blue dilute gene to me??

My roo is an ameraucana, my two hens are a Bard rock, and a black sex link. I want to know if anyone has pictures or could describe what kind of chicks would each of my hens make if they mated with my roo.

Is there any possibility of two non frizzled chickens creating a frizzle? If so are there specific breeds to create a frizzled chick?

Okay thank you! We are just leaving them be and it seems like they're working up the courage to go out, and are not totally terrified of the older hens and roo anymore.

My nesting box is made out of a tipped over cabinet so the doors are the roof and we cut an opening in the bottom of the cabinet which acts as the entrance. We also have the deep litter system inside the coop so there's at least 1ft of fluffed up straw for the chicks to land on. Thank you both...

If a hen goes broody inside a raised (4+ ft above the ground) nesting box and hatches the eggs, will she be able to get her chicks down to the ground? Or will I have to assist?

I have 2 ISA Browns, and 2 Black Australops all around 17 weeks. Theve been separated from my three older chickens but inside the coop since they were about 8 weeks. The problem is that the chicks are scared of my 2 hens (Black sex link and a Bard Plymouth Rock) and my roo (Ameraucana) and the...