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Hi all, it appears a few of my chickens have contracted fowl pox- Toad here has it the worst, while the rooster and at least one other hen have a couple of the bumps on their combs/wattles. We have two groups of birds, the group with the affected birds is a few years old and the others are less...

Hi! We're currently in the midst of day 21 of a clutch of eggs secretly laid and incubated by one of our hens, that are now in our incubator (while she tends to her 3 already-hatched chicks). 5 out of 8 eggs right now have pipped! However, I just had to discard #9 because it was leaking that...

Hello all! A hen of ours, a blue jersey giant named John Doe, escaped a few weeks ago and disappeared. We assumed she was dead, but just hours ago, I found her and her apparent girlfriend, a black-breasted red cubalaya named Raphaella who's been acting weird the last week, under the chicken coop...

Had a surprise when a blue jersey giant hen of ours who, for the last few weeks, we thought was dead turned up hiding with 4 happy day-old chicks! I'm posting a general help/advice post about this event in the raising chickens forum, but here I have a genetics question. The parents are a...

A black orpington hen of mine, Prentiss, has been acting weird the past day. She's fairly lethargic- she's definitely awake, her eyes are open, but she doesn't want to move, even when I go to pick her up (she usually hates being anywhere near me). She can stand and walk a little, but doesn't...

(Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, I puzzled for a while over whether this should go here, in chicken behaviors, or in chicken injuries. let me know if i should delete ths and post elsewhere) I've got a couple cubalaya roosters. This morning, two of them- Marius & Armageddon-...

So, we have 17 chickens, at the moment. The hens are just about a month away from laying age, so they're by no means babies but they're not full-grown yet. Out of these, 7 are roosters, and of those 7, 4 are very friendly, affectionate, and long story short, we want to keep them. They're three...

So, our chicks are over a week old now- about 10 days, I believe. The books and guides I've been using say to keep them on paper or towels for 3-5 days, so they learn what their food is, then give them bedding. I waited a bit longer, and have just introduced pine shavings into their brooder- and...

Yesterday, our order of baby chicks arrived- out of the 18 of them, 17 seem perfectly lively and healthy, save for this fella. My sister's named him Martin, and he's definitely very sweet, really loves people- but he's near-constantly dozing off, and I'm worried about his health. At the times...