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Thank you both for your responses. We took her to the hospital and she is getting the fluid drained. After that we will just hope for the best. :/

Hello, My 4-5 year old Rhode Island Red Hen is having trouble walking. She has been acting a bit strange for the last couple days but nothing too weird. However this morning she can hardly stand and limps low to the ground sprawling her wings out for support. She has had issues with her foot...

Thanks for the advice everyone. Unfortunately I cannot own a rooster as it's against city regulation and my neighbors are super against it. I also can't get a dog. BUT I am going to try out the CD's, fake owl and some kind of netting and hope that that works.

So today we suffered our second loss to a predator this year. A hawk killed our 6 month old golden silkie bantam. Of course, my favorite little golden chicken ever. :( So sad. We live near a canyon and have seen hawks circling the neighborhood for the last 3 years and never had an attack but it...

Hello, I have a silkie hen who is about 8 months old and has been laying for about 3 weeks now. She layed a weeks worth of healthy hard eggs but for the last 2 weeks she has been laying soft shelled eggs. We find the egg broken in the roost with a soft, lizard-like shell or sometimes it looks...

Hello, Just joined the forum. I have 2 chickens that were rescued from a factory farm and are now happy, happy chickens! We live in the suburbs of San Diego. Nice to meet chya! -Squid