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Hello, 1yo Golden Cuckoo Marans has a damaged toenail. Toe is puffy and sore. Nail is still attached at skin/toe, but nail has gone from being twisted sideways (Wednesday) to completely upturned (yesterday). Thankfully, she has been eating, drinking, roosting, laying and behaving normally...

Hello BYC - Please help me figure out how to help dear pet 5mo Maran hen named Fennec. She started laying within the last month. Since yesterday (and for the 3rd time since going into lay), she has gotten puffed up, stopped eating, and removed herself away from the other girls. The first time...

Hello BYC - I'm a new chicken addict. Today my "baby girls" turned 4 months old. Not sure they're all girls, actually! I have 1 each of the following Marans - Cuckoo , Blue Cuckoo, Golden Cuckoo, & Blue Copper. Attached are photos from about a week ago, when they were 16 weeks old. All 4 are...

Hello BYC. Today my small suburban flock of 4 feather babies turned 3mo. So far it has been a healthy, thriving chick life for them. This afternoon we noticed that the Cuckoo had an injured comb - one of the pointy "tines" on the comb is entirely dark blood red color, and there is both fresh &...

Greetings from the west coast, I started obsessing over BYC about 8 years ago, learning as much as I could, but only virtually (since I did not have a flock of my own). Then, after a couple years I stopped visiting BYC, believing that my virtual chick fever must stop, because my spouse had...