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I have an update on Marco, Pollo and Dosy. I've connected with Animal Place in Vacaville. They're a wonderful farm animal rescue organization. They will cover the cost of a vet appt for Marco, Monday, who coughs when she eats and has a swollen eye area and recessed and mostly closed eye. If she...

My new rescue chicken just gave me a heart attack. I heard her in the house making sounds I've never heard them make ever since I got them last week or over the fence from their last home. I thought she was being attacked. I ran out to see her standing near a newly laid egg. She was just going...

Thank you! Here's a question: Do Chickens all have a soft round-ish bulge on the upper right side of their chests that is warm and jelly-like? I just noticed it on all three of these girls. Oh wait! I just looked it up. It's their crop. I hadn't noticed it so big before and on all three at the...

Update: Good News! The bantam chick that was left behind at the neighbors has been surrendered to the animal control officer. He came to look at my girls at my request so I could show him what injuries and issues will likely happen with the remaining chicken due to neglect. He went over and...

As it turned out, she had bumble on both feet. Big areas on both feet. I'm not sure I got all that black stuff. And I wasn't sure what I was seeing if it was pus, dead flesh or healthy. So I packed each foot with antibacterial ointment, wrapped her feet and put her out. The bandage on the bottom...

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Got the procedure done today. We shall see how little Dosie does. She was a trooper.

Looks like one of my rescues has this. It is huge. Easily a half inch thick and covers the entire bottom of her foot. Has the black part like a build up of dirt and poop from the coop she was in. And of course she limps but I thought that was because she lost her middle toe. But it didn't look...

Hi Folks, Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive (a special thank you again, Shirley!)

The girls are in my yard! A few days ago the owner said I could take them. I'm looking for a donated or inexpensive coop <$100. Right now they're sleeping a large dog crate in my garage. It's small but its clean. Check out some video on my facebook page: facebook.com/jcatnewman

I'm going to ask around the neighbors when I get home. I did say to the neighbor that I'd need him to write it out that he's surrendering them to me. He at first said he wouldn't do anything shifty. I said given our history, I'd need it to be sure no one thought I had stolen them. He said he'd...

Exciting news! This morning I was checking on the girls to see if they had been let out of their coop yet before I left for my work. They had been put in by 4:30 yesterday without the water bowl and I was planning on calling them to ask to let them out and remind them they hadn't had their water...

Hope I'm using the reply/post threads correctly...Seems this one might be better on a different forum than the welcome new members forum. Two days ago I had to add water to the chicken's water bowl from over the fence as it was empty at midday. Yesterday, I called the house and spoke to I'm...

I thought the same thing, but since the coop has been put in I see eggs that apparently someone is removing from the coop and tossing into the old battery cage they were in which they keep leaning on the side of the house. Odd. Seems they'd eat the eggs, but then I saw the same eggs cracked and...

The animal control said he couldn't keep going over there because they would say he was harassing them. So I have to pick my battles carefully and make sure I'm not hobbled from stepping in when it's needed. It's a fine line between being a concerned neighbor and appearing as though I'm...

I've thought about that, actually. But they'd come straight to me, I'm sure. The animal control said he couldn't keep going over there because they would say he was harassing them. So I have to pick my battles carefully and make sure I'm not hobbled from stepping in when it's needed. It's a fine...

Hi! Well, their combs seem pretty red. But one has a shorter paler comb and it looks a bit dry at the points. They're pretty dirty, but not sure about the shine of the feathers. I'll check that out today. They also seem pretty big, maybe fat. But since I can't hold them and pet them I don't...

I guess I was venting a bit. I'm going to ask them if they're planning to fill in the yard now with dirt over the rock. And if they're not, again offer to take them.

Hi, thanks for the welcome! After my initial interactions with the neighbors,(I inquired about them after two have been eaten by a raccoon at night, which was my introduction to both my neighbors and the chickens. I had no idea they had chickens until, that fateful night with the raccoon, I...

My username is from a pet chicken my family had when I was a kid. We assumed she had been tossed off a passing farm truck by mischievous kids or maybe she planned her escape, either way she landed in our backyard. Of course we kept her - had her for a few years until she met her demise by way...