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This pullet chick has had pasty butt her whole 3 week life. Her poop is very thick and does not drop off her bottom. In fact, it seems that her vent never closes. Will acv help? What about acidophilis? Should I just....send her to her maker? Thanks. I'm really sick of cleaning a chicken butt.

Out of 17 hens, 2 have substantial bare patches on their backs. Yes, I'm slow thinking of this, but the night lows are in the upper twenties, and they free range during the days. Chicken house has a heat lamp over the roost, but should I coat their backs with something? I was thinking of pine...

My only hen who has gone broody this year is a Golden Phoenix, not a heavy bird. I set her with 6 heavy bird eggs, and she hatched 4 in a brooder. After 2 weeks I let her out. They did fine for the day, but she went to bed on the roost in the hen house and left the babies to follow her the best...

Can you do it, and will it curtail cannibalism? Is it detrimental to the chicken at all? Can they still catch bugs?

My 15 hens are a very nice flock as long as there is no raw meat around. My roo got an injured toe in April, and they nearly ate it off until I wrapped it with mesh bandage for two months. Four weeks ago he barely survived a dog attack losing all his tail feathers and sustaining some bites to...

She's true to her nature, very sweet but standoffish and flighty if I reach into the nest, but she is brooding where other hens are apt to lay with her. Do you suppose I can successfully move her after roosting time tonight to a prepared brooder box? I was planning on trapping her in a very...

It started with a little cut on his middle toe. By the next day, his twelve girls had eaten that toe open and raw with about 1/4 inch of bone showing. I cleaned, medicated and bandaged, and sequestered him for a week unitl it was completely scabbed over. Let him out. A few hours later, same...

My lovely buff orpington roo has shown up with a clean cut across his middle toe. Have no idea what he got into, but it is bleeding and other chickens are pecking at it. I am about to sequester him in a kennel until he is well but wonder what you suggest to treat this injury. I will wash it with...

Can DE make them stop laying? I fed it twice in the last 2 months. Do I need to change brands of layer crumbles? Do they need medicine? I wormed them last summer and they continued to lay until the last couple of months. I have 12 hens, some good laying breed, some not, but 0 eggs. I'm so sad...

I'm not a newbie, but I'm not a vet, either. Have 23 laying hens - brown and white leghorns, barred rocks, orpington mixes, bantums- 2 standard roosters, 3 bantum roosters ---1 egg per day from same failthful hen for over a month. All are between 2 years and 6 months old. Some I raised, some...

Maybe the problem is mites. I haven't examined him with a flashlight in the dark. But my beautiful buff orp roo's legs are bare in the front and the skin of the center of the bare spots is red as if it were sunburned. He also has bare spots on his sides just above the knee joint, but those spots...

...but I figured it out, I think. It must be the yolk sac which did not absorb into the body entirely. The chick acts fine, maybe a little less hardy than the early hatchers, with a rather ugly looking umbilical cord. If anyone has an idea about whether or not this will dry up and fall off like...

Hi Folks! I'm stumped. I've been incubating eggs at school with the biology dept and had really good success with all that hatched on day 21. We have had just as many hatch, or try to hatch, today, day 22, but with much less success. I had to help one out of a dried shell, lost two totally in...

Last night when I couldn't sleep, I found a long post on incubating dry, or at least with limited humidity. I would like to print that off but can't find it. Can anyone help me? Thanks a ton. Sudolph

How hard is it, really, and is it possible to learn without going to a class or something? Sudolph

Hi Folks, A newbie, here. I have 23, 2 week-old baby chicks of various breeds, cochins to Wyandotte bantams which were all doing fine when I went to bed last night. They are in an appliance box in my basement. Got up this morning to find one of the two cochins crouched in the corner with a...