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I've just tried to remove the yellow stuff, but got no-where. I might try again with tweezers, but the poor chuck was pretty miserable. I had started giving her oral VetRX a week ago, it's gotten worse. I wormed her just in case it was eye worm. Any suggestions on the next step to take?

I got my McMurray order this morning, and everything was mixed. There are 4 Leghorn chicks in here, then 26 Cornish X. I know it will be very obvious in a week or two, but I have a lady who wanted two of the Leghorn chicks. I only realised after I placed the order. They all look the same to me...

3 chickens and 2 roosters were dumped just down the road from us. One of the roosters had been hit by a car, so I tried to catch them. The 2 roosters I caught last night. I just tried again, and caught one of the females. I have over 50 chickens. I don't want to risk any infectious diseases and...

Past 5 months, she has been acting "broody". Fluffed up, always in the nesting box, but not sat on eggs. She is scrawny, comb is limp and pale. She behaves strangely when I take her out of the nesting box, walks around picking up pine needles and throwing them over her shoulder. I have some...

My husband agreed to take in chickens from a coworker, he was fed up of dealing with them. Honestly, I don't like taking in other chickens. I don't like dealing with quarantine and the risk to my flock. They are pretty raggedy, some with feather loss. They weren't fed much other than corn before...

Cornish X had it's legs give out during the weekend. Due to my husbands schedule we're only processing it today. He wants to bleed it out then put it in the woods for the wildlife. We kept it crated on it's own for the last 5 days, feeding and watering of course. Any suggestions or...

She looks horrifying. I really don't expect her to survive, it seems HIGHLY unlikely at this point. She is missing all of her scalp, and the back of her neck skin down to her "shoulders". She's definitely in shock, having gaspy breaths but it's been 3 hours since I found her and she's still...

Sorry for the bad pictures, I was trying to get pictures while holding my baby. I ordered straight run Welsummer, I don't see any males. I ordered female Anconas, I see all males!! I can take closer pictures if need be. And I was wondering what this little guy is too. Any ideas...

They arrived February 8th so nearly 2 weeks old. I noticed about 6 days a go that one meatie was much smaller than the others, so I took it out and put it with the brooding standard chicks. It can support itself with its legs, but mostly sits or wing walks. It is alert otherwise, but chest is...

It's been a long time since we had a loss. I came out to throw some kitchen scraps, see a hawk fly off and land in a tree. With around 50 chickens outside didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what he was up to. The head seemed to be hollowed out? I think it was starting on the...

Any suggestions are appreciated. Half our hens are from last Spring, half are from this Spring. All this Springs hatch are more than old enough to lay. We had been getting 18+ eggs a day, then all of a sudden, 4 to a maximum of 6. They are still eating more than 100lbs of feed a week, but I...

I currently have 26 adult chickens, 20 regular chicks and 25 Cornish X's. I had to pick up another 50lb bag of chick starter today, and it's now up to $15.99 for 18% Arrow brand chick starter. I live in South Louisiana, not a high cost area, and this was my local feed store. It was $14.99 for...

Is this a bad idea? We use a wooden slat system in our main coop, but obviously the chickens are roosting on it and not sleeping on it. Would hardware cloth be very uncomfortable for them to sleep on? My husband is out building the tractor, and he said he would prefer doing the hardware...

We've wanted to have meat chickens for a long time. To be honest, I've never killed an animal and imagining that part is difficult for me. We made the jump when I was half way through reading other threads and decided to just get the order over with :lol: 16 Cornish X's arrived 4th of March...

I have just over a month to prepare for the arrival of our meat chickens. We are only doing a small amount to start (15) and I am trying to figure out how to house them. Anyone mind sharing their set-ups? I'm really interested in chicken tractors, but how does that work at night? We have...

I posted in the chicken laws section, but I'm hoping for more feedback, We live in the country, on a 20mph road. People see this stretch of road like a NASCAR track and it's rare for anyone to do less than 40mph. We have two acres, that is fenced to the front and sides. The fence was put...

Not sure if this is the best place, looking for advice. We live on a country road with a 20mph speed limit. People never do 20, usually in excess of 40. Today someone hit one of our chickens in the road, stopped and said the chicken did damage to their bumper. My partner told them to get an...

She has dark clean legs, and a rose comb. I'm pretty sure she came from TSC's bantam bin, but I have no clue what breed she is. She laid about 10 small white eggs, then went broody and hatched 6 chicks under the shed :)

I heard the chickens sounding the alarm this morning. They do it several times a day for no apparent reason, so I was pretty shocked when I came outside and there was a coyote 15 feet away from me. I didn't realise they hunted during the day? Will he/she come back? Luckily the chickens weren't...

I posted a couple of days a go about a sick looking hen. Im 99% sure she is egg bound. She is not happy, can hardly stand. Is there anything I can do at this point? ETA: Nevermind, she just passed in my arms.