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We have a black Australorp hen who gets bullied. The bullying got better over time so we didn’t think much of it anymore. Around 2 weeks ago we saw one of her eyes was closed, I believe on her right side. One of her eyes was closed like this before and we put ointment using a Q tip and it...

I have a black australorp hen who is laying who recently stopped as she had trouble walking. (Different hen from previous posts) Basically, her wing couldn’t close in properly and as a result whenever walking she would trip over it. We assumed this was bullying from our ISA Browns who love to...

I have a black Australorp hen (6-7 months) who has been sick for a while, but we thought was getting better. Her story is basically that she gets bullied a lot by the other chickens to the point she can’t eat. If you see my last thread, you can see how she was recently and what her poop looked...

Like in any pecking order, there are ones lower than others. I’ve seen my 1 year old (laying) ISA Brown mating the hens that she bullies. And I mean mating, not getting on top. Wings covered, hen squatted on the ground, the trembling/shaking and ruffling of feathers after. Is it common to see...

I have a 6-7 month old australorp hen. She gets bullied by everyone else. She has no food in her crop. Everytime I see her it’s always empty. yesterday I saw she looked weak. I brought her inside and gave her some food so she can eat, and she acted fine. She made noises, walked around, and ate...

My current chicken coop was built into a shed but we didn’t convert the whole thing. Half of the shed is the coop, and the other half is the shed area. They have access to the shed area because the hallway in the shed is basically how they come out into their run. In our shed, we have several...

Hi I have a rooster and today he is very sick. The last 2-3 days we weren’t paying attention to chickens because of New Years and guests and stuff like that. We saw he wasn’t eating a lot but didn’t think much of it. Today he doesn’t leave the coop, can’t stand up(if he does he sits back down...

We have a chicken who we presume an egg is broken inside her or she is feeling some kind of internal discomfort. We are giving her an epsom salt bath right now and will rub Vaseline on her vent and also give her some tums. What other precautions and safety measures can we take?

Hi I have a rooster that is around 3 months old but I need help finding what breed he is. We were told he is a black Australorp and when he was a baby he looked same as his australorp brothers and sisters but he grew up and now he looks different. He is way bigger than the other roosters with...

I have an around 14 month EE hen named Tiny. 4 months ago, she became sick for around a week and we gave her dewormer medication and epsom salt baths and over time she became fine. Her comb got huge and red and she has silky clean feathers and she loves to run around the yard. She hasn’t laid a...

A while ago I gave my broody hen 8 eggs and she eventually broke them all except one. (first time broody) and that one chick hatched today. She is currently in a seperate area with her one chick and 2 ceramic eggs, still sitting on them hoping it will hatch. Earlier today I ordered 10 black...

I have a broody hen but it took her a while to be full time broody. (First time being broody) We gave her 4 fertilized eggs at first but she, not being fully broody, would sit on her eggs for half the day then not come back when she went to eat. She’s done this for a few days and then she became...

I have a easter egger x Delaware hen that is around a year and 3 months old named Olivia. She is kind of known to hate chicks and loves to peck all chickens smaller than her. However, lately she has been laying eggs later than usual and takes longer to lay them. (usually she would lay before we...

I have a hen named tiny and she recently had an egg internally broken(?) in her and worms. After caring for her she became healthy and happy and loves to fly and run around. She acts completely normal but it’s been a few weeks to a month since and she still hasn’t laid an egg. She’s still a...

I currently have 3 hens and 3 nesting boxes. 1 is recovering from worms and still isn’t laying yet and the other 2 lay in seperate nesting boxes. However, I have 10 ISA brown chicks still in the brooder who are around 6 weeks (I know it’s time for them to start going out but I’m postponing it...

What is a good security camera with a reasonable price you guys have or seen for your coop? Recently I thought it was a good idea to install security cameras in my coop, one inside the coop and one outside showcasing their run, so I can check up on them through the cameras and also see their...

This is one of my hens. She is a leghorn and delaware mix. She was a very good layer, and rarely skipped laying. However, she was going through her first molt so she stopped. (In the picture you can see she’s still growing her feathers back) We gave her a quick bath yesterday to clean her vent...

My family and I overfeed and spoil our chickens a lot, and we decided it’s time to stop. We would feed them rice meat and vegetables everyday at around 2 and call it “lunch” .... and they have gotten used to that being their main food and their pellets being their side food. Neighbors have...

I have a 1 year old Leghorn x Delaware hen and she is one of my best layers. She rarely skipped and laid huge brown eggs. However, randomly she stopped. She had 1 small patch of feathers missing on each of her shoulder (both the same size, around the size of a penny) where meat was showing. she...

I built a coop into one of my backyard sheds for my 5 hens a few weeks to a month ago, and obviously they would have trouble adjusting. they would fall off the roosting bars and basically slept everywhere but the roosting bars. However, nowadays I realize they do know how to get on it, but don’t...