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On Tuesday I found my ~9 month old guy not wanting to stand. When I did urge him to stand and walk, he would not put any weight at all on one foot and was just hopping around. I looked at his feet and they both had several scabs (a big one on the center of each foot and several more on toes)...

I lost one of my favorite cockerels today. The first symptom I noticed was on Friday afternoon, he was sitting in a favored sunny spot and did not want to stand back up. I picked him up and felt that he was very thin. He seemed weak and very reluctant to stand (although he had put himself into...

Hi all, I need some help with a ~1 month old pullet. I've honestly raised hundreds of chicks and have never seen this so I'm stumped. She is gasping to inhale but has no other respiratory symptoms (no breathing sounds, no eye bubbles, etc.). I noticed her do it a few times yesterday and thought...

I brought a new rooster home recently and he had a terrible mites infestation. Like clusters and scabs on nearly every part of his body. He's been bathed and then had an elector dip (since they were so thoroughly everywhere, I didn't want to risk missing some spots by just spraying). I plan to...

The only soluble tylan I was able to find without a prescription was from stromberg's. It was marketed for pigeons but the same active ingredient. Do the dosing instructions on the bottle seen reasonable to folks who have used this with their chickens? Or is it possible that pigeons need a...

I'm planning some new breeding pens and would love to hear from people who have done an open run/coop combo sort of approach like these examples from online. I can see definite benefits to it, but the idea of not having them locked up in a solid box at night concerns me. Have you had pens like...

Hi all, I'm worried some of my chickens may have fowl pox. They are acting fine but a few have small white-yellow spots on the inside of their mouth, and now I'm questioning if the small black scabs I've seen on combs and assumed were normal scabs from small cuts/pecks are actually dry fowl...

Hi everyone, I breed Brahmas and have a large, enclosed run right next to the house. My chickens get locked in their secure coops every night, have unlimited access to fresh feed, and have electric stock tank heaters to keep their water from freezing in the winter. They're coddled, doing...

Hi all, I need some help knowing what's going on with a hen I attempted to necropsy this morning. She's about a year and a half old and hasn't been the healthiest. She had worms when I got her a year ago (which was great because I'd avoided that so far) but I treated that and there's been no...

Hi all, One of my hens has been panting excessively lately. I didn't think too much of it because we had a bit of a heat wave and everyone was panting more. However, it's cooled down (low 80s max) for a few days now and she's still panting more or less nonstop, often with her wings slightly...

Hi all, One of my hens has been panting excessively lately. I didn't think too much of it because we had a bit of a heat wave and everyone was panting more. However, it's cooled down (low 80s max) for a few days now and she's still panting more or less nonstop, often with her wings slightly...

Last Thursday I had a hen die from what I’m pretty certain was an undetected and severe case of sour crop. She was acting normally—eating, scratching, and roosting with everyone else—until I got home from work that day and saw her standing alone puffed and with wings down. I picked her up (she...

I've seen some awesome threads on here about farm naming and was hoping I could get some help too! We recently became home owners after buying a very unique modified A frame cabin on a couple mostly forested acres. I've been getting more active with selling poultry and feel like it's finally...

Hi all, Now that I'm producing more chicks, I'm working on NPIP certification and trying to learn more about safely shipping chickens (not eggs). If you ship regularly, I'd love to know your opinion on the following: I know USPS requires that chickens are either a day old, or over a certain...

Hi all, I recently discovered my chickens had roundworms. Individually gave each once an oral dose of goat safeguard, then repeated in ten days. Faces and combs are no longer pale but I think I spotted a worm while cleaning their coop today. Their second dose was six days ago. Should they all...

After spotting a worm in a pile of poop for the first time (they've now been treated with safeguard), I've been paying extra extra close attention to my chickens' poop. I've noticed a lot of black sort of grainy looking pieces mixed in, somewhere between the size of a strawberry seed and a grain...

One of my hens has decided that celibacy is the way to go and that it's her responsibility to enforce it for the rest of the flock. Any time she sees the rooster try to mount anyone, she runs over and starts pecking him until he runs away. The rooster is young (9 months) and only started this...

Spring is around the corner and it's time to start planning for chicks A lot has changed recently and I could really use the help of the BYC crowd to come up with ideas for a new brooder setup. In the past, I have purchased hatching eggs and raised one group of chicks at a time. I had a...

I have two brahma pullets (about 6 months old according to the breeder, but they are considerably smaller than my 5 month old brahmas so I'm hoping that's not accurate) with pretty different leg feathers. One looks like all my others have, but the other has longer feathers around her hocks. Are...

Hi everyone, I have a small flock of partridge brahmas that I plan to breed when they are a bit older. Unfortunately a recent predator attack left me with only gold partridges and the breeder I got them from has sold her flock. I'm looking to get some blue partridges back in my flock and was...