Hey all. I need some help here. I have a chicken that has had a poopy butt for a while. I didn't think too much of it because we had a lot of rain and mud for a while. But the poopy butt has gotten worse, and despite the fact that she was my only chicken to lay through the winter, she stopped...
I have no plans to hatch eggs (no rooster) or to pass on chickens to others. But if I cull my sick chickens, I do want to replace them with new ones. Is this not advisable?
Yes, the laboratory that diagnosed the bird with lymphoma said it had an extremely enlarged spleen and an enlarged liver.
If I re-start the flock, how do I make sure that my coop and run are not going to contaminate a new flock? I am planning to switch to sand for my coop and run because I have...
They eat layer pellets. And I give them raw oats and some chicken scratch. I have not checked for crop issues. What would I look for? Their crops look normal and there's no sour smell coming from them.
Hey all,
So back in September ago I had a chicken die and had a necropsy done (she was the 2nd chicken to die from the farm I got them from). She was diagnosed with lymphoma. I now have 3 other chickens from the same source who have stopped laying. 2 of them have been having watery green poop...
Hey chicken friends,
A couple of friends and I got 5 chickens in the early summer. We are having a lot of trouble with our Wyanndots getting ill and dying (our buffs are staying healthy). We've had 2 Wyanndots die, and one is sick and looking like she's not going to be around much longer...