health problem

Hi! This is my first time posting to BYC. Thanks in advance for your help :) A couple weeks ago I noticed my 1 year old mystic maran hen has what looks like pink, scaleless lines down the outside of each leg. I’ll post a picture for clarity. On both legs, only this small outside strip is...

My little mallard duck, Rowan, flew over the fence divider between my two flocks today 😬 Her flock loves her, but my second flock are three times as big and don’t like her at all. I found her tonight on their side of the run with the feathers on the back of her little neck all plucked and raw...

Well, not quite a Bristol chart, but as close as I have found. It hasn’t captured every fecal variation, but it has a lot of good information. Maybe we can build on this and have a “Visual Poo Clearinghouse” for normal and abnormal poop to aid in our hen care...

My chickens are around a year old and I have been thinking about getting more chicks for this year but I am a bit nervous. I know that each time you raise a batch of chicks some of them might die at a young age. Last year ago I had a little EE that was my favorite. I think that it was a boy and...

This has been going on for the last couple of weeks. At first it was very random and sporadic but now I can generally count on it happening once a day or so. He seems happy/eats/drinks water/crows/doesn’t seem abnormal otherwise, but this is very concerning to me . I am not sure what to search...

My first brood of Muscovy ducklings 14 in total just started to develop wing feathers got home today and noticed several of them have wings pointing out at least two with left wing only and at least two with both wings though less severe. The mother duck has angel wing. I read a bit on angel...

hello i got a 3-4 week old mallard duck, i realized her feet was peeling i looked it up and it said it was normal, but now the web between her toe dried up on both feet and fell off. i dont know if that is normal? she acts like her normal self.

Hello, this is my first time posting. One of my hens has this strange skin ball that is attached to her neck, I noticed it a few weeks ago. I've attached pictures but I couldn't really get up close or get many angles. It's red, like her skin, and yes she is missing some feathers on her neck...

Hi. I've had chickens for the past 10 years, started with 20 up to 200 this past summer. That includes 13 roosters. Mixed flock of breeds including bantam. I love all of them and try my best to take great care of them. I have multiple coops as the and they are separated as is comfortable. They...

Hi, recently we rescued an older barred rock hen who was being abused by the flocks rooster. We took her with us to join our flock of four. She’s in quarantine before I introduce her to our girls, but I notice she’s in bad shape. Miskept feathers, pale comb with some scabbing, swollen feet...

When I let the ducks out this morning I noticed something weird about one of their eyes. Turns out she has clusters of ticks around her eyes. I have had this happen before, but there were only a few that I was able to pick off with my fingers. From most of the posts I see on ducks and ticks...

Hi all I'm after some advice..... I have 3 hens and Beatrice hasn't laid for at least 4 days. I know that one of them (cannot work out who) skips a day every now and then, but on Sunday I noticed that B's tail was drooping. I picked her up and gave her a pat and checked her over and when I put...

I have a four-year-old barred rock hen. She has a large belly, is missing some feathers under her butt, has a slightly ragged comb (not from fighting), and has scaly legs. She is heavy (compared to my other chickens) and walks with a waddle. Additionally, she often sleeps outside the back...