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Hey everyone. I have a ~1 year old barred rock rooster who I just noticed this evening has an incredibly red butt area that extends down his abdomen. It's redder than a strawberry. I'm not too sure if this is a breed thing since he is my only barred rock, so maybe this is kind of a noobie...

@TudyBOT Today I found one of my hens unable to use her leg. Her name is Ebbie, and she is a 7 year old buff orpington. When I let the chickens out to free range I found her sitting in the run unable to walk, or at least not very well. I brought her in and looked her over; no wounds, no...

Hello everyone. Today I found one of my hens unable to use her leg. Her name is Ebbie, and she is a 7 year old buff orpington. When I let the chickens out to free range I found her sitting in the run unable to walk, or at least not very well. I brought her in and looked her over; no wounds, no...

@TudyBOT I have a 3.5 week old barred rock chick, and I just realized her inner toe on both feet are bent towards eachother. It doesn't seem to be causing her any problems, but should I try to correct this? Is she too old to correct it? Will this cause her future problems if left alone?

Hey everyone. I've gotten chicks again for the second time after 6 years. I've gotten 3 barred rocks and 1 Ameraucana. I got them a week and a half ago on March 8th, and they were only like a day old then so they're about a week and a half old now. I'm a college student and am only home on the...

Hello. I need to cull my rooster due to injury. I've only done this once, with a hen which went well. Broomstick is my chosen method, but I am nervous about doing my rooster. I've read that a rooster is tougher than a hen and may require more force. I need to know how much force is needed in...

I save my rooster's spurs and I made earrings out of the smallest ones. Next I'll be making a necklace with the longer ones.

My rooster, Biggie, has been walking a little odd now for a few months. He's a big buff orpington, and he'll be 6 years old in February. Here's a link to a YouTube short, showing what he's doing exactly: I'm going to refer to his action as "the thing", because it's hard to describe. He almost...

I'm editing an article I made, and I wanted to add some stuff to my existing information. I finally got everything formatted right, but when I updated it all my text on my sub bullet points went bold. When I tried to fix that I couldn't, I'd try to deselect bold but it wouldn't do it. I'm going...

My hen, Lucky, is a 4 year 10 month old Road Island Red hen. In December of 2018, she started molting, revealing a strange bulge/growth under her vent. I made a thread about it but frankly, I didn't know what I was doing and wasn't very cooperative in trying to get better information about it...

I've never seen this before. Why is this egg brown? Is this blood? Is there something wrong? I have a hen with a swollen abdomen that I don't quite know what the cause is, could this egg be from her? She's hasn't acted any different... Edit: Wait she actually has been acting different. She's...

Hey everyone. So, I dont often hear about antibiotics given to a chicken to treat bumblefoot. I saw a few threads here about it but none seemed to end in a resolution about whether it worked or not. I think I've seen one or two people in other threads say they tried it but it didn't work too...

So we got Purina feed. Never gave it to them before, but sometimes we get to a store and pick up what they have if the chickens need feed. We got this at a new farm and home store in my town. This stuff was... not great, to say the least. I open the bag and there is just a TON of dust. I've...

My hen, Maude, has bumblefoot on both feet for the second time. About this time last year she got it for the first time. The last time it wasn't as bad as this, but I removed the scabs and treated with tricide-neo and it did the trick. Since then, I have learned that if there isn't any redness...

When I got home from work today to let my chickens out I noticed Lucky wheezing as she was running with the flock. She was clearly having a hard time breathing, slightly stretching her neck out with her mouth opened. Tonight I was able to grab her to look into her mouth and throat. When holding...

Hello! I'm not sure where to post this, and I'm kind of reluctant to post this in the emergencies section since this is for people that need help, but I'm not sure where else to put it so I hope here is okay. I'm writing kind of an information library in the articles section about a bunch of...

So I'm working on writing an article and it's going to be pretty long with lots of different sections. I'm trying to figure out a good way to format it so it's easy to navigate. Towards the bottom there are "multi page article options", one for "Overview page title" and the other for "Overview...

I'm writing an article and one of the sections is about flystrike. I had a hen last year get flystrike (she survived) and I remember smelling something like hot trash when I found her. The smell is actually what tipped me off. Which would make sense since hot trash usually has a bunch of maggots...

I want to create an article on here and fill it with a bunch of health info, like diseases/injuries and their treatments. Kind of like a super-article I guess, like a library of everything I come across. I figure it'd be good for me to have in the future, and if it would be helpful for me it'd...

My hen, Dora, is a 4 year old Road Island Red. A couple weeks ago I noticed her foot seemed a little swollen. There was a slight bulge between two of her toes. It didn't look too bad and wasn't slowing her down any, so I left it be. Today I saw her foot again and it seemed very slightly bigger...