Hello, I have a chicken that about 7 days ago was suddenly overly full of water/liquid in the crop when I went out to check on them in the evening. She was drooling it out, shaking her head, making a bit of a wheezing noise. It had been very hot and I'm sure that played a role but she looked...
Hello byc members, it's been a while, which means I've had very little problems with my flock. However about 4ish weeks ago I noticed my rooster picking at his foot and then limping off. He was fine earlier the same day and I though maybe he got stung by an ant or even a scorpion (we live in...
I have 6 straight run silver laced wyandottes that we purchased from TS. They're about 5 weeks old and I THINK I have 4 girls and 2 boys. What do you guys think?
About a week ago we bought 6 chicks from TS. Up until now they've all been acting super healthy and active. This morning however I noticed one little baby (my favorite one, go figure) just laying down when the others were all standing, she hopped up when I put my hand near her but seems very...
Two days ago when I went out to put my chickens up for the night one of my hens was breathing very loudly (kind of wheezing), she was fine that morning and afternoon when I went out to feed them and give them or left over oatmeal, the only other "symptom" was an occasional sneeze. She was still...
My favorite hen has been having an issue with her comb for probably over a month. She seems to be healthy otherwise and I'm thinking it could just be injury but I want to make sure it's not something more. It looks a bit paler than my other hens, it also looks dry and has some red marks.None of...
Some stray dogs got into my yard yesterday and attacked my chooks they killed two hens and injured one other. The injured hen has a large wound on her backside, I flushed it with iodine and gently scrubbed the dirt and debris ou then spayed vetericyn on it. I cleaned it up this morning again. My...
Hey all I need a bit of advice, I recently acquired a chicken from my brother, I noticed a month or two ago that her crop was huge when we went over and when I felt it, it was very squishy, he said it had been like that a while but didn't seem to bother her (needless to say he's not really one...
Okay so we currently do not have a rooster, we haven't for months now. The last couple of weeks we have noticed our eggs look fertilized (white dot on yolk is a bullseye). We have a hen that will attempt to crow on occasion however she has no other rooster traits and I'm about 85% sure she is...
I have a 2 month old barnyard mutt chick that I suspect is a cockrel. He's a Russian orloff/delaware mix. He started developing curled toes and by the time I really noticed he wouldn't keep the little braces I made on. I wasn't overly concerned with the curled toes because I've read that they...
Please help! I have four, one week old chicks. Yesterday one of the chicks started breathing hard, holding its wings out, and seemed to have some trouble balancing. Today this chick was very wobbly when we woke up and we came home after being gone a few hours to it on the brink of death. Laying...
I have four week old chicks that I hatched (from my own stock) out of an incubator. We had five but had to cull one, its legs had pretty bad deformities and it seemed like it was struggling to breath. The remaining four seemed pretty healthy aside from getting a little pasty butt which I've been...
Hello all, we are incubating eggs for the first time and they are due to hatch in a few days; they go on lockdown tonight. My question is this, currently the eggs are just resting on the metal grate that the bator came with, will it be okay for them to hatch on the grating? It a pretty small...
Okay I really need some help. My speckled Sussex wasn't herself yesterday I went out at about 11am and she was in a corner of the coop and kinda looked like she was trying to lay. She didn't though and went out with the others and just laid around almost all day, she was also panting all day...
So the past two days I have found 2 or 3 poops that have a bit of blood in them. I'm not sure which chickens they are from but yesterday my Egyptian Fayoumi was pretty listless, however today she is back to being full of piss and vinegar. She is three months old so I thought maybe she is laying...
I wasn't sure what section to post this in so I'll just put it here. Okay so I have a predicament and I would the the good people of BYC to weigh in with their opinions and help me decide what I want to do. So here goes, I had been planning on getting chickens for awhile but finally made the...
Hey there, this is probably a really silly question and I think I already know the answer but since I'm an overly cautious chicken mom, I figured I would ask anyway. I have a ton of wild oats growing in my yard, however they aren't in the chicken run area. Can I give my chickens some? Should I...
Hello, I am new to byc and haven't introduced myself yet, even though I've already made a few posts. This is my first time raising chickens as a grown up lol. I recently purchased 5 babies (we got nine but four are my dad's/brother's so they don't really count lol). I live in the small town of...
I bought 5 baby hens (though I am suspicious that one could be a Roo and will be rehomed if that's the case) someone is going to be giving me a Russian Orloff cockrel who is about a month and a half older than the girls. He is with hens his age now and has been hand fed and raised since he was a...