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That’s ok!!! I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything “wrong” that needed to be addressed :) We call her Willa (one-eyed)

I do think it looks a little swollen. It always sticks out but it looks more than usual

A little background - about a year ago, one of our Rhode Island Reds was acting sick. She would just sit in the yard, wouldn’t really move and she had what looked like a white film over one of eyes. Initially we tried antibiotic injections but after 2 days of that, I took her to a vet. They...

We just got 6 baby chicks yesterday and today, I just noticed the BCM opening its mouth like it’s gasping a bit? I included screenshots of the video since I don’t know how to attach one. It’s otherwise drinking/eating/moving. Is something wrong with it?

I currently have 3 hens in my flock. We have been getting 2-3 eggs a day, all in the nesting box. To preface, our weather has been very up and down. One day it’s 80 and the next it’s cold and raining. Today I found an egg with a very soft shell (you may even say no shell. It was very jiggly)...

My girls seem to like to just sit down in the run, usually by the door or next to the door, where they can see out into the yard. Is this normal behavior??

I did earlier. Not horrible, sounded like she coughed once and then spit up that phlegm. She obviously feels fine since shes eating and evading me as I'm trying to get her to move her to the garage. No eyelid swelling, bubbles or foam. Looks completely fine except for the occasional coughing...

One of my girls seems to be showing a possible respiratory illness. Making kind of raspy noises, opening her mouth a lot and then coughed up what looked like a bunch of phlegm. She seems to be moving around and eating otherwise but definitely has something going on. She is molting very late and...

Here’s a pic for reference. This was a year and a half ago when we moved them to the coop, so it’s changed some. It now has a wood roof. There is also boarding around the bottom of the shed and fencing because something kept getting in, just not killing any chickens (any ideas on that? The...

I feel horrible regardless. They were our pets. I’m even harder on myself because I feel like it’s my responsibility to protect them and didn’t. To be honest, I’m not sure how this hasn’t happened before now. We are first time chicken owners and living in the city, I just didn’t think we would...

Yes. My husband secured the run as best we could and we added one of those automatic coop doors that close during the night

Oh, it was back the next night. I actually saw it. Decided to walk out back to check on the girls and when I turned the porch lights on, I saw it’s shadow scurry away from the door, climb and sit on the top of our fence looking at me, then ran off. It did look like a raccoon. Had a long, fluffy...

We had something get in our coop a couple nights and kill 2 of our 5 girls. I found them the next morning dead in the coop, pretty slaughtered. Our remaining girls took a couple days to start laying again (which I assume is normal) but they’ve just been sitting/laying on the run floor and i...

I posted a little over a week ago about a sick chicken. She was acting off and had something wrong with her eye. I ended up taking her to the vet (who claims to specialize in birds, including chickens) who prescribed her amoxicillin but nothing for her eye. She said she wasnt sure what wad wrong...

Update - we started the Terramycin about 2 days ago, twice a day. We apply on the outside of the eye after we flush with saline. Started giving her calcium once a day, 2 days ago. Definitely seems to be improving. She's more fiesty when my husband tries to open her mouth to give her the...