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This is a rescued chick who is now 15 weeks old. She seems more brown than a cream legbar. Are there different shades of this breed? Second pic shows crest, and younger.

My Brahma that I just cleaned off yesterday is not well. She had caked on poop, and now feathers are trimmed. Her poop is watery, and now some reddish pink staining, urate threads. She isn't interested in eating. Has drank water. I have her inside. She is lethargic, separated herself from...

My hen had a prolapsed vent and the vent gleet. What is the best solvent for the dried glue+cement like residue near her vent on her feathers, and for the feathers below which are not returning to fluffy, but seem there's maybe greasy residue from the Preparation H mixed with the discharge glue...

Is it ok to bathe my molting, sick (liver disease) girl? I know that their molting makes them sensitive to touch, and she already stays apart from the rest of the flock. She has poo hanging/caked onto her rear fluff. She looks uncomfortable. She is not easy to catch, but not impossible. The...

Just adopted 4 chickens, less than an hour ago, this one is a Brahma. The skin on her head is dry, scaly and puffy. Noticed that her sister keeps pecking at her. They also seem to be molting, as she is missing some hackle feathers and sister's vent area has just pin feathers coming in. I don't...

Found my 2 y.o. golden comet dead this evening when I went to put the flock up. She was laying upside down, and had released some of her food. Her vent was purple, and belly waterballon like. Head, comb, wattles were purple, but neck was not rigor mortis yet. She had started sneezing last week...

Born around 3/7. This one has always been the biggest, with faster developing comb and wattles, also the reddest. Tail feathers are beginning to curve downward. Did not appear to have the light spot, if it did, it was really small. Next question, do these crow loudly? I may have to re-home him...

Found my chick this morning just laying like this. 4 wks.old. This injury on the side of her chest is scabbed up, nothing vital is there. Moves with her skin. I have her inside, giving her B vitamins and sugar water which she is drinking. How would you feed her. She seems unable to stand up...

I've been looking for dewormer for my molting girls, with the understanding that fenbendazole is not to be used at this time. There is only 500 ml bottles of Valbazen and larger. Has anyone ever used Albendazole powder or capsules to treat for worms? I would put the powder in water and dose a...

I've looked at chicken chicks pictures of poops. Didn't see any like these. Do I have a problem, or just an occasional thing. They has some ripe tomatoes recently. Otherwise acting normal. Some are molting.

Ok, I have watched too many vet shows and read numerous articles about what to use to flush out wounds. ( like bumblefoot surgery, dirty wounds) What do you prefer to use, what is the best recommended, how to make the dilutions? Peroxide is not good? ( Injures tissue) Povidone, iodine...

My hubby was fortunate to catch a large salmon. Would you feed the chickens the roe( eggs )raw or cooked, if at all?

Help! My black sex link (11+months old) has been just squatting and lethargic since yesterday afternoon, ate a few fly larvae when I treated the girls, and went back to squatting. She roosted overnight, and when she came out I found her this morning a little worse. I have her inside now. Pics...

Eggs laid by your girls today, expressed as a percentage or fraction.

Gertrude is a Welsummer, whose tail has never come up. She is one of the bottom of the pecking order. At 25 wks., she acts normally, eats and poops just fine. Many of her tail feathers were still not fully opened, and in their sheaths. I scratched off most of them. Has anyone seen anything like...

One super jumbo egg yesterday at 86g. Will a chicken lay these often? Or is it a hit and miss? ISA brown, 25 wks. old.

Yay, found the first egg today! Probably from one of my 4 ISA browns. 20 weeks ish old. It was laid in the sand under the coop. Then an ISA did a squatty behavior on the lawn, then went up the coop ramp but came back out. I am afraid to let them into my garden because they may lay under the...

My ISA Brown and Welsummer girls are 14.5 weeks old. According to breed information, they don't begin laying until 22-26 weeks (January). When and how do I transition them to layer feed, and is pellet or crumble best?

Recently noticed that my 9 week old Welsummer's tail is down. Could this be an illness symptom? She is too young to have a stuck egg, right? Other than that, she seems to be acting normally. Is there something to check, and how? What do I need to look for?

Newbie to this community and can't wait for the girls to grow up I have 4 ISA browns and 4 Welsummers. They are nearly 5 weeks old and nearly feathered. Can't believe how quickly they grow. My hubby created a lovely 12' x 5' coop for them. Falling in love as they show their unique personalities.