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Ugh. I loved having chickens up until recently. I'll try to keep this brief and to the point. About 4 weeks ago one of my barred rocks got (what i'm fairly confident was) vent gleet. I bathed her and put antifungal cream on her daily and and it looked like she was on the mend. When I lock...

I forgot to update, the chick is fully healed and now I can't tell it apart from the others :)

my internet is having serious problems. the leg is definitely lame. there is bruising by the foot. I don't see any obvious breaks. the leg seems straight. i have the chick in a box with a heat lamp, food, water, and one other chick for company. i think i am going to remove the splint...

For those in a rush, the short question is how to go about splinting an injured leg of a day-old chick where you can't identify which bone(s) are injured. Should I do my best to try to splint the femur, tibia, and metatarsus? I don't think I will be able to separate the chick from the mother...

Thanks for the replies. I think I will either put her in the separate 4' x 4' coop I have because the layout of the big coop will make it hard to pen off an area with one nesting box. Should I fence off an area around it so she can go outside for a bit? I feel like she would want to still be...

Well things haven't exactly worked out as planned. Today was the second time that she was sitting on a different clutch of eggs. Twice I have seen another hen in her box with her, but she stuck it out, so maybe she got cramped out by a hen or went to relieve herself and maybe another hen (or...

Thanks for the replies. I feel a little better about it now. I'm still not sure if the eggs are viable or not but maybe somewhere around day 14 I'll try to candle them. I've looked it up quite a bit and it sounds like development should be very apparent at that time. I'm happy that she is...

My White Cochin is broody and refuses to get off her eggs. It's been 4 of 5 days now, and we have just let her have those eggs. This morning when I unlocked the coop to let the chickens out briefly to go to the bathroom then went back in, ate, drank and got back on her eggs. It was the first...

I'll look into it. I'm not sure if the local farm shop will be getting more chicks in, but if they do I'll check it out. We already have two different ages of chickens which has been hard, because I have to keep them separate. They are very close in size and have been together without...

I would love to keep him, he's so much better behaved than the other one was! We have a Dark Brahma Rooster that is very docile and pleasant and would like to keep him. After giving away the other rooster we have 13 chickens left and 3 are roosters. The Ameraucana we are giving away and we...

****! I can't believe how different she looked from the other one. Thanks for the input.

So as part of our original flock, we had two Danish Brown Leghorns. I think they are 11 or 12 weeks old now. As they matured, they looked very different from each other: one got long pointy tail feathers that curved up and back down, his comb got much redder and larger than the others, thick...

Thanks. Yeah I read over suggested reading, welcome area, FAQs etc. I've been lurking for a while as a guest so already had a bit of an idea how everything operated. There's a wealth of knowledge on this site, thanks to everyone that contributes.

Here are a few more photos of the Australorp:

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll try to get some better pictures of the Australorp too. They aren't the greatest profiles.