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  1. TheChickenChaser

    Holding chickens

    Hello all! Things are going great with my three chickens! I let them out almost every day and they enjoy scouring my garden. One quick question. One of my chickens now crouches down and splays her wings when I approach. I read this is a mating thing? Is it good? Because it allows me to pick her...
  2. J

    Chicken to weak to hold her head up

    Hey everyone, I have a beautiful 6yr old faverol. She's been sluggish for a few weeks now. She's not really standing up and struggling to hold her head up. 2 weeks ago she perked up and was walking a little around her little coop. We've just had xtropical cyclone Alfred which brought with it...
  3. W

    Chicken leg/tendon injured. Limping and holding leg forward

    One of our hens suddenly began limping last week, we thought it was a sprain and restricted her movement. However it has not improved. Vet is out until Monday. She (tries) to be active and is eating/drinking. She moved the leg, but can't put weight on it. She also tends to hold it out forward...
  4. shellirae

    help my chicken won’t hold her head straight.

    I have a year and a half hand that is holding her head to the side and found a big lump on her chest
  5. tlcmurphy

    Chicken Panting and holding wings out and down.

    One of my 3 girls is behaving oddly. She came running out an hour and a half ago when I let them out to free range, now she’s standing still, holding her wings out to the side with her tail down and panting. Poops look fine, she won’t come out for treats, and lets me pick her up which she hates...
  6. P

    Chicken holding pen or chicken run?

    So I need to double check my plan for a chicken holding pen. I call it a holding pen and not chicken run because my chicken are fully free range. They are not housed in anyway except being enclosed at night in a covered roost. I'm surrounded by woods for miles so I'm not worried about them...
  7. S

    Hen sleepy and holding wings low

    Hi, yesterday I noticed a hen closing her eyes on/off and not holding her wings up completely. I checked for water belly, crop issues, egg bound, mites or anything in her feathers. I don’t see anything. She is eating all snacks I bring out and hanging out with her flock. I did add 3, 15 week...
  8. thistlewick

    Why does every single retail coop seller lie about how many chickens their coops can hold?

    Why has NO ONE ANYWHERE done the due diligence of simply researching a TEENY TINY BIT and discovering the 10 square feet rule. Why has NO ONE gone beyond the '4 square feet' of *commercial broiler guidelines*???? I am pissed about this - just was browsing around this morning... I don't need a...
  9. Jenbirdee

    how do you hold a big chicken to put ointment in eyes

    it seems so much easier to do with a duck. chickens have smaller heads and wiggly necks that shrink down so HOW do you hold them is there a trick to it like when giving pills you pull the waddles down and it’s easy but I have to do eye ointment I’m using Terramycin on a Q-tip just to get a...
  10. bhawk-23

    Best way to hold chickens

    I am not sure where to post this thread since it is not an emergency or if it’s been discussed on here before (I tried searching the site) but what are the best ways to handle a chicken for exams and treatments? I am treating my hen for bumble-foot again. During the last course of treatment I...
  11. Henpecked Dad

    Chicken presented with vomiting which looks like it has feces in the vomit. Her chest is swelled out like she's holding three eggs in her chest. Sh

    She's gurgling. We've washed her vent and tried not to excite her. She's golden comet about 2 years old. I forgot what I'm supposed to include. Don't know when it started but must have been late afternoon. She was not acting strange at her afternoon feed. Is there such a thing as overfeeding and...
  12. N

    Can chickens hold eggs in if they're stressed??

    My two hens stopped laying eggs for a few weeks and today I found 9 eggs. It was two roosters and two hens in one coup yesterday we moved the younger rooster into a different coup and today the two hens went crazy laying eggs there were no eggs yesterday when we moved him and from everything I...
  13. C

    Holding chickens alot/walking around your house

    I have a question and maybe it's just me being a clean freak but literally how do some of you let your chickens walk around your house? I am so curious because I was under the impression that like, touching chickens poop, or the chickens step on their poop and it's all over the place, on my...
  14. S

    I love to work outside with my chickens. I will always have someone to help hold the ladder for me.

  15. PoleFarm

    Gifted chalet coop

    Friends divesting part of their Chicken City sent along this chalet. Might be the nicest gift anyone has given me.
  16. W

    What is the best litter for a chicken run that is over clay soil and tends to hold water when it rains?

    I recently purchased a house built in 1900 and the entire property is basically compacted clay; the property is graded properly for living in a city, meaning the rainwater flows from the front away from the house to the lowest spot on the property which is the very back of the backyard, close to...
  17. Sunshine Chick

    Baby chicken lethargic, droopy wings, can’t hold head up.

    I feed layer crumbles/pellets with poultry nutribalance and fish meal added in. I also give yogurt and veggie scraps. Free choice grit and eggshell. They are on wood chips with access to an outdoor area penned in with poultry netting, with green stuff to forage. Noticed this evening a baby...
  18. Lamg

    FERAL CHICKENS IN HAWAII HOLD ‘JUNGLEFOWL’ GENES

    Does the RJF in Hawaii have any conservation value? Even if she didn't, it might be interesting to breed a "Hawaiian fowl" like this "breed" with RJF genes. Is it possible that there can be breeders of these chickens in other countries? Very interesting - Mixed ancestry and admixture in Kauai's...
  19. V

    Chicken holding head backwards to left, walking in circles, pecking at food to left.

    Hi everyone. Looking for new ideas. Woke up last Wednesday to let the girls out and one of them was sort of out of place. She was stumbling and pecking at the other hens. As I watched her, it seemed like her head twisted around to 180 degrees from where it is supposed to be right in front of my...
  20. My Very First 6 Chickens

    while holding a chicken on my Lap

    Hello, I have a little extra time this morning since its a beautiful 32F here in CT so I wanted to ask a question about Chicken behavior. When I have a chicken in my lap, i am stroking them gently on the neck and body; they seem to like that. now that i am a little more comfortable with them, I...
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