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I have a jersey giant rooster about 3-4 years old. Yesterday I noticed he was staggering a little and has gotten a little worse today, he’s not falling over himself just when stood still he will loose balance and take a few steps back or to the side. It doesn’t look like a star gazing thing...

Hi all, I have a pekin hen hatched around April this year with a very firm swollen abdomen. She’s still eating and drinking and has quite an appetite although she’s not got much mass to her. She’s lethargic and sluggish more than usual but she’s still alert. She still poos normally although I’ve...

hi all, so I just want a second opinion on my rooster who has in the past week developed these scabs on his comb and have noticed his earlobes which were sure white are now yellow. After doing some research I think maybe dry fowl pox? But am not sure as not found anything with symptoms of...

Hi all, so I tried looked on the site but couldn't find the answer I was looking for. I just noticed that one of my nearly 3 year old lakenvelder hens she's not looking quite right, the other hens are pushing her away from food and water a little and her comb is flopped over, this morning it...

Hi so my 3year old jersey giant rooster Shepard has been under the weather since October I've been taking him in and out of the vets, on multiple antibiotics. Originally went in to the vets in October cuz his comb was purple/black and he was just stood in the doorway of his coop. The vet said...

Hi so about 6 days ago, I found one of my silkies with severe wry neck, happened overnight. She's around 24 weeks. I think this is caused by head trauma rather then deficiency as I give sunflower seeds often to all my chickens. Anyway she won't stop walking backwards and flailing her legs and...

I went to check on the birds around lunch time, noticed one of my jersey Giants had some scabbing, I went to check and saw rather large lacerations on both her sides. Then the male started treading on her back and realised it was spur damage. She fine in herself, feisty, eating, drinking...

Hi all, unfortunately, Last night my female African goose passed away. I'm just kinda hoping I can get some closure on the whole thing if I could at least understand why she died so maybe I can do something in the future. She looked a bit off Monday night, figured I'd see how she was in the...

so as I was locking the coops and checking the birds last night. I noticed a lot of blood round my vorwerk pen and coop. The cockerel had blood all over his face. Anyway brung him in cleaned him up and figured it was frostbite on the tip of his comb that got knocked off and blood just went...

So I got 10 battery hens last Sunday. We had a little cold snap and Two (one morning after another) had surcome to what I assume was hypothermia. I have now put a heat lamp in there coop to help prevent this from happening again till there feathers grow back. First thing I did was isolate and...

First of all I didn't know where to post this question so I hope it's ok that I made a new thread here. Ok am getting chickens in April/may and was wondering what a good brood hen would be as Idealy I'd want them to sit on goose eggs. The breeder I use said she had to give up on orpingtons as...

So I have 8, 6 to 7 week old goslings, about 36 hours ago I noticed The big one I named Ryan wasn't quite right. He's not eating, no appitite what he does eat he delicately nibbles then spits it out or vomits, when he poos it's just clear water with some white mucus, shaking his head a lot and...

I currently got 8 embden goslings and even though I wanna see how things go with these guys, a friend is offering some African geese and I've been thinking about getting Toulouse down the road. I said I'd give it some thought but my main worry is it ok to mix different breeds as adults? Could I...

God I feel so stupid! Basically one of the goslings loves to be held I went to the fridge to get some lettuce for him, he was in my arms the fridge door spooked him which made him stand up, flap around and fall out of my arms. He had a hard landing on the tiled floor. And I'm extremely worried...