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Hi, when should I winterize my coop and run. Is now too soon to wrap the run with plastic 2/3rd of the way up? Overnight temps are going to be in the high 20's. Daytime temps still in the 50's. This is my first winter with chickens. I've read alot of great information, but wonder if there...

Thank you very much for the threads.

Hello every one, I've been read a few of the posts on broken beaks. I will clean her beak and monitor her eating. I will definitely start hand feeding her moist, wet soft food to keep up her strength. Any advice is appreciated. I am hesitant to bring her in the house in a recovery crate...

Here is a close up of Olive with her white lobes. Dalilah's lobes are red. Their feather coloring is exactly alike. Sapphire Gems or Olive Eggers?

Hi, I'm not sure if I have olive eggers or sapphire gems, as they haven't started laying yet. Soon though, as one has displayed the submissive pose. You commented on the ear lobe color. One of my olive eggers has white lobes and the other one has red lobes. They were from the same batch of...

Good morning, I put Olive back in with her flock two nights ago. She is doing better but still not the perky chicken I am use too. At least her tail is up and she is more alert. She is still somewhat distant from the others though. It has been very hot in Michigan the past couple of day and...

She appears to be more alert today. Able to clean her feathers a bit more and less of the standing still with the glazed stare. This is a picture of her first poop today. Very similar to her first poop yesterday that I didn't take a picture of. It is very milky and appears to have small...

Yes, she can walk. She's just not active.

She had a giant poop finally, but in my haste I forgot to take a picture of it. She pooped a couple of more times after that. Here is a picture below. Does it look like coccidiosis? I fed her a small amount of finely chopped scrambled eggs this morning. She is interested in eating but still...

Definitely feeling had spots in her neck area, below her head. The fact that she isn't pooping has me more convinced she has a blockage. Perhaps small stones or pebbles that were picked up from the sand in the run. She is taking water from me but I am not giving her food for 24 hours. Her...

She's seeing fine. Was eating and drinking on her own yesterday, but just occasionally. She is not eating or drinking on her own today. Thinking it may be sour crop now. But I feel more of a hard spot in her neck esophagus area. The area above her crop is hard and odd shaped. She is not...

Update, she is doing about the same. Still lethargic, away from the flock, picking on food and water. Seems confused or dazed. I decided to isolate her and treat her manually with hand feeding. She loves scrambled eggs. Again she is only 12 weeks old and spend last Sunday in her new run that...

Thank you Wyorp for your quick response. I am treating all the chickens with liquid corid mixed into their drinking water as of an hour ago. Let me see if I can check her crop and take a pic of her.

Hi, first time chicken owner. My 8 chickens are 12 weeks old. On Sunday, they were out in their new run which has sharp sand as the flooring. Their first experience with sand. Yesterday and this morning, one of the chickens is lethargic, not socializing, standing in the corner by herself...