I have a four year old black australorp who seems to be half dead. I have been away at college and came back today to see her due to my father saying she looked ill. She has lost all her weight..and has no strength to move her feet--so when I put her down her feet is all curled up and wont move...
Hello, I have a 4 year old hen that just lost her last friend (used to have 6 hens), so she is rather lonely. I have a friend who is getting rid of two ducks because of fights going on and she wants to give them to me. I've never dealt with ducks before however. How would I introduce these two...
I only have one more hen now-(over four years old) she just recently lost her last roommate, whom she actually bullied a lot. Of the
six I have raised- she is the last one now. She sits in the same place under a pile of eggs she has laid all day and night. She becomes very noisy and her neck...
Hi, for the past few weeks one of my hens have been laying these flat egg sacs. It always varies from looking like a deflated yolk to just a sac of nothing. What could this be? She seems to be fine but I feel this is not healthy. Please help me :c Thanks
Recently I lost two hens to a raccoon that somehow got into the coop. The other two survived. The smaller hen, Stroodle is being bullied by the other still even after their loss. Stroodle has been abnormally loud though and has been laying grayish long eggs. Near night time she stays near my...
This morning my twin woke up to seeing a skunk eating one of my hens. Something has managed to get into the door inside their coop. I had four hens. Two of them were killed inside the coop, one being dragged down and eaten. The other two somehow managed to get out...thank god. I have no idea...
Hi..so I have lost a hen due to something unknown..All I saw was that she had alot of white on her back feathers
..Now I have another hen that has an excessive amount of white on her butt feathers. She seems to take a very long time to go poop..she will just sit there in an upward position and...
A week ago I lost one of my black austrolarps for unknown causes. All I had noticed was an excessive amount of white on her butt feathers. She died a couple of days after I noticed it. Now I have another black austroplarp and I am seeing alot more white than usual...can someone please help me...
One of my black austrolops hens just died. I do not know how she died. She was fine when I but her out in the morning. I was gone all day and my dad had to carry her up to put her back at the end of the day. I have four other chickens that seem to be fine. I lost a chicken this winter from egg...
So..I lost my 10 month old New Hampshire Red on presidents day of this year..Broke my heart. When she was around maybe 1-2 months old, she developed a lump on her tummy. The lump was watery and I assumed filled with fluids. She had no problems what so ever, she was perfectly fine until winter...
-I have 5 laying hens; 2 black australorps, 2 red stars, and 1 New Hampshire red. I had lost the other new Hampshire red to an unknown illness that I assume would be egg peritonitis, on presidents day of this year.
-The Hampshire red has been acting different. She seems to just sit in the...
Hi everyone...I have a very odd chicken. Ever since she has been fully grown, she has had a weird lump on her tummy...almost fluidy and hardish. Thats not quite the biggest problem...She is pooping out yellow..yoke substance..shes has done it before..like a month ago..I don't think she has been...
Hi everyone...I have a very weird chicken. I have had her since the end of June and she had developed this weird fluidy bump on her tummy. She has had it for a long time till present time. She seems fine with it..but I am curious to what this could be?
For a couple of days on and off she hasnt...
This is my hen's first winter! I am a bit nervous about them. I have a coop for the 6 of them, but it is under shade from my house. I cannot move the coop and it seems a bit cooler in the shade. It is getting pretty cold, I don't think I could put a heater lamp inside because that would be an...
My 6 chickens are not laying eggs. 1, of them, has only had 3 eggs, she was bounded for the first few. I got these 6 chickens from when my school got them. All the other 40 are laying eggs normally. My chickens are not laying, only 2 of them are doing the squatting thing and three of them have...
Betty, my little chicken, is not acting right. She is standing still and doing nothing. She looks fine, nothing seems to be wrong with her no lice or anything. She has a very slow walk and when she stands, its almost like she is hunched when she is sleeping. She is falling asleep and only...