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I recently noticed my girl was having problems eating- didn’t seem to be able to close her beak - then I realized her top beak seems curved? Never noticed that before - anyone know what this is or why it happened? She still seems to drink and she scratches around - She is older but always my...

I have been treating my little rooster for fly strike - I believe he got a puncture wound and I was not aware until he wasn't acting normal - We cleaned (soaked in epsom salt and Dawn Soap) and removed all the maggots. The wound was pretty deep and we Injected Vetricyn into the site, kept him...

Has anyone else experienced this? Any tips on how to treat? It looks like bumblefoot right at tip of toe. Hopefully you can see it in the photo....arrow pointing to it. Had a bumblefoot before in the pad of the foot and successfully treated but never saw one like this....

She is a Rhode Island Red and 6-7 month old. She has always looked different - kept her tail feathers down?? (Kind of like they do when they are sleeping?) The others their tail feathers stand up. However, she has always acted fine, running with the pack, eating drinking, healthy shiny...

We rescued an older rooster a couple years ago. He had bad leg mites, we treated him and he did much better and life went on. A while ago, we noticed a large dark growth (hard almost like a calcified growth) (Picture 0693) on the top of his foot/leg. He acted like it hurt and limped. We...

I have a 1.5yr leghorn hen and noticed she was in the coop most of the day in the nesting box. I don't believe she is broody, but there was one egg in the box with her, not sure it is hers. But she was still there this evening. So, I picked her up, she did not fuss which isn't normal. I...

Retired 4 years ago. Our neighbor had several chickens and would give us eggs which were rich and delicious. Then they had to move and couldn't take the birds. They found homes for some, some were killed by predators and we ended up inheriting 5 hens and one insistent rooster I didn't want...