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We have some ducks in a chain link fence enclosure (dog kennel) with no roof. Yesterday when we were going to feed the ducks we found one dead in the shelter with its neck striped. We found on the outside of the enclosure there were bird tracks, but that could just be magpies (a bird that feeds...

We have a buff Orpington rooster that has been doing something weird. He will be acting normal and all of a sudden he shakes his head and then continues what he was doing. Is this normal? Our other roosters don't do this. He has been doing this for a few months. Does he have a brain injury? What...

I was reading some posts on here some time ago about farming mealworms for chickens. I finally decided to try it. We went to our local feed store (that has mealworms) and he said he made a mistake in how he was raising the mealworms and said he could only offer 50 mealworms. He did give me some...

When we decided to get chickens again this year from the hatchery we did not get the Marek's vaccine. We didn't know anything about the disease at the time and thought, "Why pay the extra money? We have never had problems with disease in the past." Biggest mistake ever. We had chickens dropping...

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, I didn't know where to put it. We have a variety of breeds in our flock and some of them have started laying. We now have about 24 eggs right now but some of them are speckled eggs (See picture). We have a Speckled Sussex, a Columbian Rock, a few Barred...

A few weeks ago we had a unknown disease go though our coop. The following thread gives more information. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1128670/carriers-for-life/ Following suggestions from @heatherlaw and @Wyorp Rock, we sent two chickens away for a necropsy. Now after more dying and one...

Sorry if I posted in the wrong section but I was wondering why Columbian Plymouth Rock chickens are so rare in the United States. In Canada I know you can get them at many hatcheries. At our nearest hatchery, Rochester, you can get them by the hundreds plus. They are also, in the catalog, on the...

Recently we had a chicken come down with some sort of respiratory infection and die. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1127966/13-week-old-chicken-labored-breathing We gave all of our birds antibiotics as recommended by a member on this forum but we have a problem. We have recently read that...

Sorry if this is under the wrong section but... A few weeks ago we sold five of our extra Columbian Rock chickens (now 13 weeks) to a person that seemed pretty nice. It has been about 2 weeks from then and she has texted us with problems. She says all her chickens she bought from us have leg...

Yesterday my 13 week old Colombian Rock chicken's breathing became labored. We usually free range our chickens under supervision every day because our run isn't finished yet. Is she choking on grass? We've had a few chickens do this kind of thing but they usually stop in a few days. However...

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread, I'm still a bit new to this forum. We have 7 week olds, 9 week olds, and 11 week olds. We sometimes let them out for a bit to eat grass and we decided we had better get grit. I have heard that granite and oyster shells are good but our local...

Ok, we have a chick that had breathing problems and I got home and saw it limp on the brooder floor. I tried gently nudging it to see if it would get up and it did, but then shrieked in pain and laied back down. We are so worried for it. Help! It also has a little bit of poop stuck to it's butt...

Hi. Today we went to a sale in our area to pick up some chicks and ducklings. We got some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, some Golden Laced, and some Silver Laced, all about 1-5 days old and there are 8 total. When we got them home they were droopy, but we got some sugar in there water and they...