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Hello, im new here but i need help we got two new ducklings about two weeks ago and one was perfectly fine about an hour ago but she just started being really wobbly when she stands up and she started sneezing a bit, she can stand up and walk around but she keeps falling over, she seems to be...

Just a quick question for my paranoid self. I live in glenmoore pa, my chickens are right next to our house, they have a fenced in run, a coop that is raised and fencing on the top. Are my chickens still safe from coyotes? I've never seen any around here, where do coyotes live?

My Sheltie, Gracie, has had what seems to be a lipoma (fatty tumor) on her left flank for quite some time. She is aboit 10 years old. It has been getting larger in the last few months, going from about the size of a walnut to now it fells almost the size of a lemon. But also I am feeling more of...

Hi all. See my original post here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/2x-failed-bumblefoot-surgery-what-to-do-next.1325094/ It is 1.5 months after my chicken's twice failed bumblefoot surgery. I have been doing twice weekly epsom salt foot soaks and have not attempted surgery since late...

Our chickens are not eating. We have tried to give them food but they do not eat it! We have switched them to layer and they have eaten it fine the last week or two and now the won’t eat. They will eat cherry's and scraps but not their food which provides the most nutrients for them. And they...

I have a 4 day old chick. They are over weight. Is there any way to help him/her become healthy. They are lethargic and I am very worried.

I'm brand new to owning chickens i just got 6 hens a few days ago and one snuck out of her area 2 nights ago. She got into the other half of my yard where my dog was out. he got her in his mouth and i instantly told him to drop her. he listen and she ran off. She ran away at a good speed and it...

Hey guys, I have three hens (6yr,5yr,3yr) Now one hen recently went broody so we gave her some eggs now she has three chicks. We have them locked in the coop and the others free ranging. about a week after the chicks hatched the older hens started having irregular egglaying patterns, the eldest...

I feel like Many is getting worse and worse? But he seems fine am I just over worrying? Mang has been sneezing all morning and shaking/schratching his head can someone please help?

Eye issue all of a sudden after brining 4 months old in the same compartment. It has affected 4 chicks right away.

My hen Belle, was sitting outside the kitchen window preening. Every so often she would tuck her head to her chest, the stretch her neck as far as it would go with her beak open. Is this normal?

So I have a pretty bad problem. I went to Hawaii for a week and when I came back I noticed my chickens where skidish and timid but that’s probably because I’ve been gone for a week. But my buff polish is acting really strange, mind you I have taken her to showmanship at the county fair and I...

Hi I ordered 20 mixed cheaper crossbred eggs for a shipped egg test run before I buy the dearer variety! I read up on shipped eggs and ended up putting them fat end up in cartons, didn't turn for 7 days and then began tilting with a large book under the incubator 3x a day, incubator is an Rcom...

Hi, I am so new to this, I do not even technical own chickens I am just caring for an injured one and her buddy. Roxie is a few weeks old ((I think)) and she/he ((too young to tell yet I am told)) was grabbed by my Dad's dog Cera ((Who was raised around chickens and protects them all very well...

so today I bring me chickens out like normal and I notice my hen. And she has a swollen face And her rooster kinda has A swollen face I’m Very worried please anything you know please let me know

I just got 6 chicks that are a week to week and a half. One of my D'uccle chicks, oldest of my chicks, is more lethargic than the others and does not seem to peep. She does eat and drink. Her breathing seems a little heavy to me. Not gasping for air or anything. This morning 5 of the chicks were...

I BOUGHT 6 BROILER CHICKS ON 28TH MAY, 2018 NEARLY 10 DAYS OLD. LAST WEEK ONE GOT BRUISED ON LEFT FEET AND BECAME DULL. WE TREATED IT AND UT WAS FINE RUNNING AROUND BUT 2 DAYS BEFORE WE FOUND IT DEAD IN ITS CAGE! WE STILL DON'T KNOW THE REASON. TODAY IN MORNING WE FOUND ONE OF THE 5 REMAINING...

My chicks are going to be week on Friday :love but is this poop normal or should I worry :barnie

Hi all, At the moment I have 2 fertile frizzle eggs under one of my broody Silkie hens... today is day 19 and one of the eggs has started chirping. I know that at this stage I probably shouldn’t be candling the eggs, but this afternoon as I let the broody hen off of her nest to go to the toilet...

Hello chick friends. I’m worried about my little baby chick, I’m incubating 3 silkie chickens who is 9 days today all three were moving yesterday and I wanted to look at them today as well and one of the baby’s I see the body but isn’t moving, there’s still vens. No death ring. Any thoughts