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Thank you all so much for your kind words, it makes me feel better knowing I'm not a weirdo for crying over losing a chicken :hugs

Not the first time i have been to a vet with a chicken and I doubt it will be the last. I am so glad people in this community feel the same way I do, they are so intelligent and loving

Today was a hard day. My beautiful girl Toasty very sadly had to be euthanized after several tumours were discovered during what should have been a fairly simple operation. I am absolutely heartbroken, and thought I would post here to share her memory. She was still so young, turning three in...

Our ~ 8 year old RIR has developed a lump over her eye during her moult. We noticed it yesterday and got a picture of it today (attached) and put some betadine on it, but we aren’t sure what it is. It isn’t squishy and doesn’t appear to have any opening or wound, and none of our other chickens...

You expect me to eat this garbage??

A party I would very much like to go to :D

Hiya, Aussie chicken keeper here, I was looking for advice on filling in a big ugly dirt patch in my run with some lovely plants. My run has three sections, they all have dirt and sand substrate, but only one section has plants. I would like to fill another of the sections with some more plants...

Alright, thank you so much for helping a (probably just paranoid) worried chicken mama :bow

By the way, would there be any reason she would suddenly lay an egg outside the box (just standing in a garden bed) that could be related to the soft shells??

Yes, she is probably the quickest and wariest of our flock too... guess I'll have to wait until she roosts.

This particular bird hasn't been on a moult, although some of our other birds have so its possible she may be about to start one soon. thanks for the info about the calcium, I'll give that a try (if she'll let me).

One of our girls has left us soft eggs over the last two weeks, and despite adding a few drops of calcium to their water and giving them food with shell grit, her shells are consistently thin and/or not there (although I suspect not much of the calcium from the water actually went in their...

I have tried keeping her with all four of our other hens individually and all of them continuously bully her due to her being so much smaller and having a limp unfortunately. Thank you for all of your advice, I’m pretty new to chickens, and most issues tend to stump me

The others can stick their head through the wire and she has a habit of dustbathing against the fence, so it is possible for it to have been them. She has been separated for a year, and I haven’t noticed it in that time, just in the last couple of weeks. My mother thought it was mites, any...

We don’t have any roosters and because of bullying issues she is housed separately from our other chickens, they can still interact but there is a wire fence between them as she is lame and was almost killed when we first got her. She has free roam of about 20 metres square and we free range her...

A few weeks ago I noticed some bald patches around my chickens head and one on her neck, and I initially thought she might be going into her first moult (for context we are coming out of winter and she is almost 2 years old) however I don’t believe it is moulting as so far it has been a couple...

our old RIR has been malting recently and one of our younger chickens, (only one that we have seen) has been attacking her and plucking out her new feathers. We are wondering if we can put antiseptic on her wounds and if we can prevent the attacks any way other than separation, as she is old and...

We got three new bundles of joy, two red sex links and an australorp, at 16 weeks old, and despite some health complications in the beginning, we expected eggs fairly soon after getting them. Fast forward to now, 18 weeks later, we still have no eggs. The weather has been warm but not boiling...

My old RIR has had a deformity in her feet since we got her from a friend. She is still the biggest and strongest hen, so it seems it doesn't give her any pain or weakness. I have attached photos, but they're not very good because she is so aggressive I can only get near her at night. I was...

Is it ok to clip a chickens claws? One of my chickens loves crawling all over anyone she meets and we've all got more than a few scratches from her trying to clamber on top of us, so I was wondering if there's a way to reduce that. If not, I guess love comes at a cost :)