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Our oldest hen, Rose, has been lethargic for about 3 days or so. I noticed yesterday she was not eating their pellets and she's not eating in the yard either. Her comb is still red but not as bright as it was and it is lolling to one side. Her poop is like water but I see no sign of worms...

We have one silkie and one Polish. The rest of our flock consists of buff orpington’s, SLW, GLW, Easter Egger’s, and one old Barred Rock to total 13 hens. No roosters. All are roughly 9 months old. Let me start with our Silkie issue. She has gone broody for the second time of her life. My...

I have 12 pullets that are right at laying age. One of them is a Silkie and the only one that is scared to death of us. 🤷🏻‍♀️ She started laying almost 2 weeks ago. The only problem is she is laying either on the floor of the coop or on the poop board. We have 5 nest boxes with a fake egg in...

I got 8 chicks last Thursday. I have 2 Polish in the bunch. One of them had pasty butt yesterday which we cleaned up but I noticed last night it looks like something sticking out of it’s rear. It is eating and drinking and active but stops and picks at it’s butt every once in a while. What...

Help! One of my RIR is acting sluggish and yesterday I noticed some poop on our step that looked like it had blood in it AND definitely worms. Of course she is the only one of our flock of five that does not like to be handled let alone caught. She is the only one that has a messy but too. We...