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My Lavender Orpington Megara is 2.5 years old & has consistently had issues with her bum feathers being ingrown. This particular spot wound up being just about a full feather by the time I was able to coax it out back in September/October. The wound you’re looking at in the picture, is where the...

This all started right after Thanksgiving. She's been isolated since in the ICU, nobody else has anything else like this going on. First I noticed my Australorp Minnie (she's 2.5 years old) had what I thought was vent gleet. Yellowish/white poo stuck to her bum & her stomach felt super...

So I want to start just by explaining that I check all my ducks feet everyday or at least every other day. They tend to get the occasional scrape every now and again, but they normally heal. Last year, my Cayuga duck Violet had bumblefoot on her one foot. I noticed it early, treated it and it...

My Speckled Sussex is dying, pretty sure it's Salpingitis, she didn't show any signs of anything wrong until way late last night. However, before that yesterday she apparently laid a lash egg in the coop, that my EE happened to come running out of the coop with very proudly squawking about how...

My cream legbar Jasmin is 10 months. Saturday, she had droopy wings, head down, not going for morning treats with the rest of the flock. Put her right into ICU, and she laid a soft shell. I have been giving her a calcium supplement since then. 2 days ago she laid a regular egg. Tonight, just...

My frost white legbar, Eva, is only 10 months. She had been fake broody for a bit, staying in the nesting box for hours before laying and then she would get out of the nesting boxes. About 3-4 weeks ago, I am pretty sure a soft shell broke inside her. I was able to pull the soft shell that was...

My Green Queen Sally seems to be having an eye issue. She's almost two, she is low on the pecking order, so she has gotten her poor muffs pecked at :( She is eating, drinking, and laying fine (since I discovered it this AM, she's been in Chicky ICU and laid her egg in there) When I went into the...

1/2 the flock is starting to end their molt…and today I found this egg in the nesting box. Everyone seems to be acting fine, eating fine ect….and of course everyone lays brown eggs so I don’t know who laid it. The entire shell is hard, including the tubeish part on top and it's also very tiny...

So, I got day old babies from Meyer back in August. Rolly, the Blue Ameraucana is teeny tiny in comparison to the rest of the group I got them. I’ve purchased babies before, and none have been this tiny in comparison to the rest. Sure a little smaller, but not so noticeable like her. Meyer...

My 7 month old Pekin is having issues...she’s just not eating, and seems somewhat lethargic. She laid an egg Tuesday, but yesterday this started. She wasn’t doing her usual happy hanking, and laying down a lot. Did some Epsom salts baths thinking maybe she was eggbound. After the 2nd or 3rd bath...

My 7 month old Pekin did this poop tonight...there was also this other poop in the run, but I’m not 100% sure if it was hers or not. Just want to make sure if it’s normal, or if I should be worried about her having a broken egg, or any of the bazillion other things that can go wrong with them🙈...

My Buff Duck Dash has had this on her foot for a while now. We treated it as if it was bumblefoot for a few weeks. No nugget ever came out, and it just kept scabbing over. It’s never been warm, she’s never been limping, hasn’t grown, or gotten smaller, but it’s yet to go away. It’s in the 20’s...

I can finally say "Here's my first egg!" No idea who laid it, but I'm sooooo happy! I know you all can relate. Now my question is, she laid it in the run, how do I get whoever to lay in the nest boxes 😂

I'm sure someone has made roost bars from a pool ladder....does anyone have any pictures of what they've done? Looking for some inspiration as I've gotten one for free and I'd like to set something up in the run for the girls. In my head, I'd like to run some 2x4's or 2x2's across the ladder...

So, in my egg order, I was gifted Golden Laced Orpington eggs....after tons of issues, hurricanes, long term power outages, generator not working,this is the only GLO who survived. As I’ve already got 2 Roo’s in my flock, I’m hoping 🤞🏻it’s not also a roo...butttttt I think it is. Please tell me...

So, chicken math got the best of me lol...I need another coop lmfao. I don't want to spend the same amount of time on building one from scratch, and I was wondering if any of you have this? I've read so many horror stories about the pre-fab coops, how they fall apart, are a waste of $$, and for...

My daughter had the bright idea to try & do bird feeders...welp we had a major chipmunk & mice problem around the house (not the coop! Thank goodness) and she had bought two bags of this....just wanted to see if I can use it as scratch for the girls. Thanks!

So Dory here is now 8 weeks old-purchased from a straight run TSC bin 😂 so I’m asking all you lovely, much more experienced folk the age old question...hen or roo?

Sooooo, I didn't want to spend hundreds on an Ayam chick, so I got hatching eggs....well sure enough only 1 hatched, and of course it's a Roo. I would like to keep him, as my town I believe doesn't have any rules against roosters, BUT, I don't want my neighbors angry about the chickens either...

So, my little over a month old Pekin is eating/drinking behaving totally fine. But today I noticed her poop looking charcoal black. Being a newbie, I just wanted to see if it’s normal, or should I be worried?