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Thank you for that...

For some reason this year has been unbelievably bad for my hens. Mites made one of my girls so weak that I had to kill her because she was so sick. I'm heart broken. I used several scalpels and then after she pretty much bled out, I stretched her neck to finish the job. It makes me ill just to...

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I just found one of my older chickens straining to poop. I checked her over and found her vent blocked. I pulled the stool off of her and her cloaca was bloody. I washed that area and removed all of the excess material but now she seems like she still needs to poop. I think she has been blocked...

One of my hens is kind of gurgling and sneezing. She is eating well, has normal energy and seems generally fine. I'm concerned about bronchitis and possible decline in her health & spread to the rest of the girls. I have tetracycline...will that help?

My chicken ate a piece of cloth tape. Will this undigestible object kill her?

One of my chickens just ate a piece of cloth tape that I had wrapped around her coop mates feet to treat bumble foot. Will the undigestible object object kill her? What do I do now?

One of my chickens just ate a piece of cloth tape that I had wrapped around her coop mates feet to treat bumble foot. Will the undigestible object object kill her? What do I do now?

I have a bird who has had diarrhea for about a month. She won't let me get any where near her so, I've been watching her at a distance. She seemed fine until I noticed today that her stool is watery, milky in color. She also is notably anemia- no color in her face, and I was able to catch her...

If you haven't noticed, chickens are great at giving, what I like to call "chicken eye"...looks like your birds have that trait as well...great pictures!!

I found one of my hens lying on her side with a noticable limp comb. I brought her inside and noticed that she was cold to the touch. I force fed her water as well as a crumbled up egg yoke with cream and gave her the opportunity to eat some very wet mushy food. I should note that her crop was...

My little black chicken (I'm thinking an Australorp?) is being picked on by the rest of the flock. Most of her tail feathers are gone, they push her out of the way so she doesn't get much to eat and because of all of that, she is a loner. I bring her in every night to our indoor 'playpen' and...

Thank you all for your kind words...

Thanks, Thelma was my little buddy and it broke my heart to have to let her go...

I had to dispatch one of my chickens the other day. She was a one year old Ameracauna who was born with a cross beak. I tried very hard to ensure she had very mushy food daily but at some point, she just wasn't able to get enough calories in to sustain herself. Essentially, she starved to death...