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Hello everyone. I have not posted on BYC in a quite a few years, as my flock has been doing good overall. Even with the good, I've lost 6 of my pet chickens in the past year, all of which had to be euthanized. Some due to old age, others due to treatable-when-caught-early conditions I did not...

Bad hair day for Wattles! Some Vaseline got onto her “hair” after I applied some to her comb/wattles :gig

Hello! My australorp tore a good chunk of her comb off today while I was at work. I think she tore it on part of the pen fencing, but I will check when it is daylight tomorrow for blood and/or damage. The comb chunk was barely hanging on, so I sterilized all my equipment, cleaned her head/wound...

Hi there. I have a 3-year old Buff Orpington that likes to sit a lot...like, a lot. She sits under the log jungle gym in the run, she sits in the mulch landscaping bushes, she sits on my lap, she sits on patio under the table (where she currently is sitting as I write this), and now that the...

Hi there. I have a 9 month old Black Australorp that has gone broody for the 5th time now. Usually in warmer months, I put her in a wire bottom crate within the run (with food/water and so she’s still visible to the other hens) and leave her there for a few days until she breaks. With the temps...

Hi! I have a mixed age+breed flock. My 4 older hens are going on 3 years old. My 6 young hens are about 6 months old. While my young hens are off wandering around, scratching, walking all over kingdom come, my older hens just like to sit most of the time (haha). They walk around a bit, then...

Hi there! I currently have 2 chickens with bumblefoot. I’ve been doing typical care and re-bandaging their feet every 2-3 days. We are about to go on vacation for a full week, so my question is can I leave the foot bandages on for a full week (after a fresh change the morning when we leave) and...

I get up to go get a snack inside the house, gone for only about 2 minutes, and look who stole my seat on the porch...😂

We had to say goodbye to our sweet Dolly this morning. She passed away overnight and we found her dead in the coop this morning. She had been sick for about 2 months now. She had lost a lot of weight (her breast bone was really, really protruding), her comb had flopped over and turned light...

I think I may have just accidentally killed my chicken. I have a sick 4.5 year old Cali White that has been losing weight, has droopy wings, floppy comb (not super pale, still pink but not bright red), and is acting just off for the past few weeks. I consulted with a few people on BYC and...

I have a sick 4.5 year old Cali White. I posted a thread a few days ago and didn’t get any responses (See Post Here). I’m going to dose her with Valbazen and Corid. What’s the dosing amount for each medicine and what is dosing schedule (4mL/day for 3 days, etc)? I have found conflicting dosing...

Hi there. I've written about my 4.5 year old California White (Dolly) having a re-occurring bumblefoot problem (that is still on-going) and I now believe she may also have worms. Symptoms are described below: 1. Flopped over comb and pale-ish face (see comparison photo). Her comb started to...

Hi. I had a 5 1/2 month old Australorp hen today that was acting lethargic, sitting in the run while others were out free ranging, not eating melon (she LOVES melons), etc. Her crop was very squishy, so I assumed she had a sour crop and proceeded to very, very gently induce vomiting, gently...

Hi there. I posted a few months back about The Tale of the Shrunken Comb (See Previous Post) and now I have an update to that story...The Tale of the Floppy Comb. My poor Dolly’s comb did in fact come back to full glory in June, but now in August her comb has completely flopped over. Still...

Hi there. I have had a rough start to the summer (new rescue dog problems, plus issues with my flock) and now I have, what I believe to be, 3 cases of early bumblefoot (see attached photos). I used to do daily feet checks but with the new dog, the chickens have taken a back door to everything...

Hi everyone. I have a 16-week old chick that has a swollen eye area, with very small bubbles in the corner of her eye (see attached photos). No foul odor, no labored breathing. It has been like this for 2 days. I’ve been having a lot of tick bites (100% certain of tick bites because I’ve pulled...

Hello all. This is slightly embarrassing for me and a long read. We have a current flock of 11 chickens (Five 2.5-year old hens and six 12-week old chicks). I am the primary caretaker of all of them, and I am very, very attached to my chickens and they are attached to me. My husband jokes that...

Hi everyone. Lots of things going on with my 2.5 year old Buff Orpington hen, this is a long post so please read through everything for background on the situation. I am also re-posting this with some added detail from an earlier post to the Chicken Behavior and Laying forum. 1. My 2.5 Year Old...

Hi everyone. Lots of things going on with my 2.5 year old Buff Orpington hen, this is a long post: 1. She has had a bad limp for about 1 month. Still eating, drinking, pooping, and laying an egg every other day, up until yesterday. I put her in a large dog crate within our run for a few days...

Hi there - We have six teenager chicks that are about 8 weeks old that are ready to leave the brooder and head into their teenager coop! We have a large run for our adult flock (16ft x 24ft for five adult hens) so we have divided that in half for our meet-n-greet phase until our teenagers become...