I noticed yesterday that my hen Nesty (black australorps) is swollen below her vent, about the size of a lemon. The skin is reddish and it is warm to the touch. It doesn't seem to be tender; she lets me feel it without complaint. she seems to be eating, drinking and acting normally, and I think...
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My hen Polka Dot has been doing some weird movements with her neck and head, definitely after she eats. She bobs her head up and down and side to side. someone suggested that it might be a crop problem, so this morning I went out to check her crop first thing and it was kind of big and...
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One of my hens has been doing this freaky thing-- bobbing her head up and down and side to side. she stretches her neck up tall first then bobs it around. She does it in short spurts, then stops, then starts again. I've never seen her or any of my other 13 hens do this before...
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I am a new chicken owner (since May) and I have a flock of 14 sweet girls. three weeks ago I noticed that one had lost some feathers on her back, but I didn't really worry. now most of them have some type of feather loss (mostly neck and back, no vent feather loss), and one of my girls...
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I'm a new, proud chicken owner, with 14 beautiful, sweet hens that I got in the spring. a few of them have just started laying, but over the past three days, I've found what looks like bloody poop. I've only found it once a day, but the blood if red. No one in my flock seems sick; I've...