starving

i have a single chicken and looking to expand very soon but as of right now i have an issue. it's not eating the feed i've been feeding it mainly parsley with some grains on the side so far, but after i've been told that it's not nutritious enough i switched it to pellets. but the problem is...

Hello all! I have a question about a broody hen. So my hen Peggy, (formerly known as ChiChi), is about 3 years old and just before Christmas last year she was asleep late at night on a perch in her locked coop when somehow a raccoon was able to grab one of her feet and ripped it off. All that...

So I recently bought this chinease goose who her previous owners claim is 14. I have no idea what they fed her other then grass and chicken scratch. She hasn’t layed any eggs since we got her months ago (dispite her seller saying she layed every few days) and at this point I doubt it’s because...

My hen, Rhody, has a hard and distended abdomen. My vet checked her out shortly afterwards and prescribed her some meds. A few days later, I left to vacation at my cottage and left some reliable family taking care of Rhody. Unfortunately, she has stopped eating and drinking and has become very...

3 yo RIR. Has been “off” for over a year. Goes through cycles of lethargy. Hasn’t laid in quite some time. Smallest in the flock, bottom of the pecking order. Has had sour crop before (3 months ago) and I was able to alleviate it by regurgitation. She immediately perked up, resumed normal...

My little girl has some serious scissor beak. She is a silkie and just shy of 6 weeks. She is half the size of her sisters... pretty much literally. I weighed one tonight that was over 7 oz and she’s only 3.5 oz. She is constantly eating because it’s so much harder for her to get any food, but I...

Hello, I have a 3 months old silkie that I think had not eaten or drank for a few days. Maybe 3, 6 or possibly 8 days. (I know it is unlikely for her to survive the later days.) We went on vacation for 10 days and paid someone to check on our chickens every other day. My SILKIE Coop was to...

My goose hasn’t eaten in several days. I separated her from my ducks about a week ago, because she was injured, and the ducks are always chasing her around. I’ve since noticed that she hasn’t been eating her food. She’s as light as a feather when I pick her up. I’m scared she doesn’t have much...

I have had broody hens before, in fact I have 4 now sitting on eggs. But this Frizzle bantam, she is sitting on NOTHING. No rocks, no sticks, not even dust! Last week I found her sitting on top of a nesting box, not in it. She wouldn't come down to eat the cabbage treat I was handing out. So...

So I have an almost year old Sussex Rooster and this morning he was making a strange noise so my dad went down to check on him and he stopped making the noise. Later on in the day I went down to check on him and noticed his top beak looked like it was shedding but there was some blood.. He...

Hi everyone, I have a 16 month old Dominique hen purchased from MPC last year at one day old. She was a perfectly healthy chick. I have a mixed flock of now 14 chickens, thry are in a 10×10 coop with about a 20 ft run, they free range everyday with the exception of when we are away. When she...