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Hi everyone, I have a hen who I am concerned about. She has a growth on her beak that started on the left side, and is now quickly growing, starting to cover her nostril, and spreading to the other side. It started out with an injury I had noticed when I got back from a vacation, where it...

Hi everyone, I have a bantam rooster who I’m concerned about because his entire face has turned a purple color. The coldest it’s been is in the 20s but it’s obviously affected him quite a bit already. He did get some frostbite last year and the very tips of his comb ended up falling off, but...

A few months back my turkey’s foot seemed swollen and he was constantly pecking at it, causing his foot to bleed. I cleaned it and wrapped it, and he seemed to act normal again, until the wrap fell off a few days later. He continued to peck at it but each time I cleaned it and wrapped it and it...

Hello everyone! I noticed the other day that one of my guinea hens had one of her eyes closed. It seems swollen and she doesn’t like to open it. It’s been a few days. When she does open it, her eye has a blueish, and slightly foggy tint to it, which doesn’t look like a good sign. Could she...

Hey everyone, I’m hoping I may be able to get some answers here about my chicken. My lovely hen, Millie, has started to become ill, and is getting worse. I let her stay the night inside a couple weeks ago because it was cold out, and another hen wouldn’t stop trying to attack her. She’s around...

Hello everybody! I have been struggling with keeping the birds off of the front porch. I definitely would still like to free range, but the girls love to jump on the porch and make a mess. Does anyone have any tips or ideas that have worked for them? I’d love to hear Thanks!

hello everyone! A couple months ago my one of my chickens became ill, and since then I’ve lost around 5 more, and I’m quite positive that Mareks was the cause. I have some guinea fowl who laid some eggs, and I hatched four babies from them. How dangerous is it to sell a couple keets to someone...

Hi everyone! I have recently found a couple eggs from my guineas a raised last year, and I’ve decided I’d like to incubate them. I’ve never incubated guinea eggs before. My incubator is the Hova-bator 1602N. I have the temperature set at 100° And it has stayed pretty stable, except it has...

Hello everyone! I have been wanting to raise turkeys as pets for a couple years now. I have definitely ruled out that I want to own heritage turkeys but I’m not set on a certain breed. I adore the look of the blue slates, but having the best turkeys for pets is most important. I have a few...

hello everyone! I have been raising chickens for almost 5 years now and I’ve always struggled with keeping the flock’s water from constantly freezing. And I have a feeling I’m not the only one who struggles with this! I’ve tried different methods like using a ping pong ball, and putting a bottle...

hello everyone, today I went out to feed the chickens. We just had our first big snow, and for most of the chickens, it will be their first winter. Some of the girls finally came out of the coop today since it’s nicer weather and of course, they get very excited when treats and feed comes...

Hey everyone! About two moths ago I got some chicks, two Reproductive Reds, two California Whites, And two “Plymouth Rocks”. The funny this is that the two Plymouth rocks I got certainty aren’t Plymouth rocks! They are very different, even different from each other! One is pure black with bright...

Hello everyone, I have a young cuckoo Maran rooster who is about 2 months old, and has seemed very healthy and strong, until this morning. I had gone on an outing and had asked a family member to lock up the chickens for me, she did, but she said she didn’t count the chicks. This morning another...

Above are our Holland Lop boys Above are our Lion Lop babies Above is our black otter Lionhead buck Our mini Rex babies above Hello everyone, we are a small hobby breeder in Vermont (Shaftsbury/North Bennington area), and we have some Lionhead, Holland/Mini Lop, Lion Lop, And...

Hello, I Have a have a Guinea keet that I got almost a week ago and has had constant pasty butt and also has a strange “growth” like thing near its vent. I soak and clean the keet up many times a day and it has seemed healthy but today it definitely looks weaker and I really don’t know what this...

Hello everyone. I know backyard chickens is mostly for, well, chickens, but the problem I’m facing I have a feeling would be nearly the same if it happened with a chick. I picked up 10 guinea keets that I had ordered today and one of them I didn’t notice anything wrong with, until just a few...

hey everyone, I know this is a website mostly for chickens, but was hoping maybe someone could help with a problem I have with one of my parrotlets. I’ve been a parrotlet breeder for a fee years now and I’ve never had problems but I have a parrotlet chick that has some feet problems. As she has...

Hey everyone, I have a chicken who I have been housing at a different location temporarily. I went to visit my chickens there and I noticed that one of them had a crack in her beak as well as a bruise. I’m concerned about it and I need some advice on what to do. She is acting normal besides...

hello everyone, last night I️ realized my chicken was trying to lay an egg but she had a prolapsed vent! It took a long time of soaking her and trying to get the egg out, and the problem was that the egg was cracked. But finally, as a last resort, we used a syringe to suck out the inside of the...

Hello everyone, I noticed today that my black Easter egger was not coming out of the coop, then later today I noticed that she was limping really bad from what I could see out of the window. I went down there and was limping a lot so I took a sock in made it into a long strip that I wrapped...