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  1. Brienna

    Small soft lump on LEFT side of chest, crop problems? What is it?

    My 3.5 year old hen has had this issue for a while but I have not made a fuss of it because she was eating and drinking well and her poop was normal. She is molting right now so she is feeling poorly and eating less (my chickens always feel like this during a molt so for them it's normal, but...
  2. Brienna

    HELP, my hen is lethargic, not eating & drinking, green poop

    My 3 year old hen has been feeling off for the past three weeks. It was kind of on and off, some days she seemed great and some days not so much. Now, it's worse than ever. She hasn't been feeling well for the past 5 days and there has been no improvement. She was one of our best layers (an egg...
  3. Brienna

    Please help me figure out what is wrong with my sweet hen :(

    Hi everyone, I have been searching on here and on the web to figure out what could be wrong with my hen but I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong as there seems to be so many possibilities... She has not been herself since a few days, she is usually the most active girl so I can easily know...
  4. Brienna

    Why are my hens molting again?!

    I have four 2.5 yr old hens that all went through a molt recently since around September-October. One of my hens had a rough molt in September and lost a lot of feathers, more throughout October-November and starting laying again for about a week beginning of November but soon stopped again and...
  5. Brienna

    Heavy breathing with mouth closed

    I have searched everywhere but haven't found any answers to this.. My 2.5 year old hen is breathing quite heavily, but with her mouth closed. When she is laying down, her whole body rocks when she breathes. I can really notice a sort of contraction in the throat area. She is acting fine...
  6. Brienna

    Can I give docusate sodium if my hen is already on antibiotics (penicillin) ?

    My hen has had diarrhea for a few days now and it is slowly getting more solid but still liquidy. There is still a small, soft ball in her crop in the morning so she isn't passing all her food. She has had this impacted crop since thursday morning. I'm at the point where I want to give her...
  7. Brienna

    Small but soft crop during morning check-ups

    Hello, I have 4 two year old hens. I check their crops almost every morning and before doing so, I take away the food to be sure they don't eat before I check them. Three of my 4 hens have a completely flat crop which is perfect. But for as long as I can remember, one hen has a somewhat flat...
  8. Brienna

    Rescued hen (update: or rooster?! please help in identifying) found in garbage coming home tomorrow

    I witnessed the most horrible thing yesterday. I was walking my dog when I came across garbage men who stopped me to tell me they had found live animals in a garbage bin and that they were in their truck. Sure enough, there was a bag with dead chickens and a poor live hen lying on top of them. I...
  9. Brienna

    Abnormal wing flapping?

    I was just watching my chicken that is currently separated from the others because of feather picking and she just did the strangest thing. I have 4 chickens, they are all 2 years old and I've had them since they were a week old, and I've never seen this behavior. She just kind of stood up...
  10. Brienna

    Please help! my hen just laid an egg with no shell - no membrane at all

    My hen just laid an egg with no shell. it was like she pooped it out, there was no membrane, it looked like an egg that was cracked open in a pan. I'm so worried, could she still have some inside of her? she just got out of a molt and has laid a nice egg yesterday. please help, I am so worried...
  11. Brienna

    Please help, my hen pecked at gentian violet, is this toxic?

    I was trying to apply gentian violet on my hen's neck with a cotton swab but she pecked at the swab with a bit of gentian violet on it. I don't think she ingested much, the tip of her beak is blue and I think I saw that her tongue was a bit blue too. Could this be dangerous?? what should I do??
  12. Brienna

    Hen stopped laying, losing feathers, not eating much...what is wrong?

    I have a 22 month old hen that seems to be offish since about a week ago. She has stopped laying since a week, and this morning I found a huge pile of her feathers under the roost. I know these are signs of a molt but here's the thing... I have 4 hens total, all the same age, and they all sort...
  13. Brienna

    Milky-like poop

    Has anyone ever seen a poop like this and is it a sign of disease or worms? up close it didn't look like worms but it sure doesn't look like a normal poop. All her other poops were normal today, except this one. Any help would be great, thank you.
  14. Brienna

    Last hope for feather picking hen? We've tried everything!

    We are getting pretty discouraged. One of our hens starting picking the butt feathers of the other three hens. We tried isolation for a few weeks and when we reintroduced her to the others, it seemed to have worked, she was now on the bottom of the pecking order and wouldn't dare pick on the...
  15. Brienna

    Help! Reintegration of bully gone wrong - what to do next??

    Please help, we are pretty new to this chicken thing and after reading lots on the subject, we decided to isolate a bully hen who was ripping out feathers of the other 3 hens. The first time, she was isolated for 4 days but the feather picking started again as soon as she was with the others...
  16. Brienna

    Feather picking hen is at it again after isolation

    We have a problem with our top hen : she keeps picking out the butt feathers from the 3 other hens. We built her a chicken jail and she was in it for 4 days - wednesday morning to saturday night (we put her back in with her flock during the night). This morning, she was picking the feathers off...
  17. Brienna

    Parakeet grit OK for grown chickens?

    We are having a really hard time finding grit for our chickens. The people at the store where we buy our feed have no clue what we are talking about and insist that oyster shells do the trick but I've read that it isn't the same thing. We found one place who knows exactly what we're talking...
  18. Brienna

    Sweet hen is getting her feathers pulled out by other hen

    I've seen a lot of posts on feather picking but haven't found exactly what I'm looking for... Here is our situation: today, we noticed our sweet hen Bernadette getting her butt feathers pulled out by another hen, and then another joined. We have 4 hens, so we immediately separated the two...
  19. Brienna

    Bloody leg

    Our barred rock hen has a leg injury. We don't know the cause, maybe some pecking? she is on the bottom of the pecking order. We soaked her foot in an epsom salt bath and applied some polysporin on the wound. Is there anything else we can do? any thoughts on the cause of this injury? Here are...
  20. Brienna

    Need advice for worming chickens

    I would need some advice for worming chickens. My hens are around 24 weeks old and I have never wormed them. They started to do a strange movement in the chest area, moving the chest/nest side to side, up and down, quite quickly, and this only at night time while on the roost. It doesn't seem to...
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