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I’ve got a 9.5mo old chicken that’s been pooping this wet, bright green poop for several days now. She also has a pale comb, low energy, and not eating a ton. I’m not sure if she’s currently laying or not since I’ve a few that have very similar egg color so I can’t be 100% sure. I just dewormed...

I found roundworms in one of the droppings this morning. First experience with worms so I've been doing tons of research all morning! I was reading about zero egg withdrawals with the .45mg/lb dosage for 5 days that the UK uses. Anyone follow this dosage with success? Does it also require a...

I can’t tell if my ameracauna is broody or not. She sits in the box for sooooooo long. BEFORE she lays her egg. But then gets out after she lays! It’s the weirdest thing. But it’s really aggravating the other two layers who all like to use the same box. All three of them were in it earlier today...

I keep our eggs on the counter and don’t wash them until we eat them. Lately a few start getting these dots on them after a few days. Like they’re absorbing moisture?? Are the shells on the thin side and causing this? Do they need more calcium? Once the eggs start looking spotted are they still...

Since I've discovered some new symptoms, I decided to make a new thread from my earlier one. I have a 19wk old pullet that's got a bunch of different things going on. What I first thought was a leg injury has morphed into I don't know what! She was limping yesterday morning, falling over a lot...

Saw our naked neck limping badly this morning. Separated her and noticed some kind of cut or scrape on the side of one of her toes. That toe looks swollen and it was red around the sore. She’s currently in a pet carrier in my dining room. I did an epsom salt soak, washed the foot with soap and...

So my brahma has apparently been standing under the roost in the mornings before everyone is all down. And she’s been pooped on a few times. :idunno And like the cecal kind of smeary poop. So she’s pretty dirty looking. Doesn’t help she’s white! Do I need to give her an actual bath or can I just...

PLEASE tell me this is something treatable!! Ok, we have 11 chickens. 3 about 6mo old (all laying) and 8 about 4mo old (none laying). Many of them have been really sneezy the last couple months, but otherwise acting totally normal. A few weeks ago one of the older ones started sounding kind of...

Our black australorp just started laying this week. First egg was Tuesday, then another Thursday, and another today (Friday). Now I see her walking funny this afternoon. Almost like a half squat, half limp. Did she dislocate a hip laying her egg or something?? What in the world??

This is our coop. It’s about 5’x10’ with a concrete floor. We have 3 5mo old pullets and 8 2.5mo old pullets. I have Sweet PDZ under the roosts and pine shavings in the rest. I sift out the pdz every morning, but obviously the shavings still get pooped on throughout the day when they’re inside...

I was turning my compost pile today and found tons of these weird worm things. A google search told me they were black soldier fly larvae. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed them before now. What are these black soldier flys and how will they affect my compost pile and yard??

Gah! We bought 3mo pullets on Feb 18. I don’t know the exact weeks old they were. So far, no eggs. One black australorp, one ameracauna, and one light brahma. A week ago we got 8 more 2mo old pullets and moved them all into a new coop and run. And just yesterday finished installing the nesting...

So I’m a pretty new chicken keeper here. Got our first few just in February. This past weekend we got several more and moved them all into the big new coop we built. Now I’m worried they’re sick! Background: Our bigger 3 are about 4.5-5mo old. None have laid any eggs yet. Our new 8 little ones...

Today is me and my husband’s 12 year anniversary! We spent the morning taking a family trip to Lowe’s to get more wood to complete the ceiling of our new chicken coop and picking some paint samples to choose a color for the outside of it. Picked up some fresh gulf shrimp at the store afterwards...

We’re having a hard time deciding on a color! We’ve at least narrowed it down to the purple or the lighter aqua next to it. Which would you choose? I like them both equally. DH said the aqua. Middle daughter is adamant for the purple. Decisions decisions!!

So the day we brought our chickens home, our dogs attacked them. :hit They killed one and injured another. The injured brahma didn’t have any flesh wounds, but she was trampled and had a limp. A month later she’s still got a slight limp. She gets around fine and acts normal, though I don’t see...

So I did a search and found a couple other posts, but didn’t see many pictures, so thought I’d do my own post. Noticed my black australorp’s comb is black at the very tip of each “spike”. It’s definitely not frostbite unless she got it before we got her and I just didn’t notice before. Any ideas?

We’re still building our big coop so still trying to determine the best way to do some things. When it comes to food and water, what are the pros/cons for having inside the coop vs in the run area? I was thinking of doing a built-in-the-wall type feeder like this: So that would mean it would...

When we bought our chickens, we bought a 50lb bag of feed from the farm along with them. Then we knew what they had been eating and something good to continue them on. They’d been feeding Purina Flock Raiser crumbles. Good grief that stuff makes a mess!! Once this bag runs out, is there any...

I bought the book Fresh Eggs Daily and while I like her approach to incorporating herbs and such into chicken keeping, it’s not a very in depth book in terms of general chicken keeping. I’d like something that has a good overview of all aspects that I can reference when needed. At most, we’ll...