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Have a question for you all. I need some help identifying strange blue/black lesions on an all of our chickens faces. And treatment options. I’m not sure if it’s fowl pox or not so if you have any suggestions I’d be grateful!
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I’ve been keeping chickens for several years now, usually several flocks at a time, all free range over about 1 acre areas per flock. I’ve moved and started over with a much smaller flock.
The difference between this flock and the previous ones is that they can’t free range. Also...
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I have this 2 day old chick that had a 48+ hour struggle to get out of his egg, and still had to be asisted the last bit of the way. He's alive but I can't say that he's well. He only started hatching over 24 hours after the other chicks in his batch. He's struggling to stand up...
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I’ve got a chick in the incubator that’s trying to hatch at the moment, but it’s more than 24 hours since the first crack appeared and it still hasn’t hatched. It’s cheating and wiggling around inside the egg still. The humidity dropped way too low during the night so I wasn’t able...
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I have a Faverolle hen who has been looking unwell lately. She has a very pale comb, and is reluctant to eat. Very quiet and prefers to keep to herself. I let her be and just watched her for a few weeks now, and although she isn't getting worse quickly, she seems to be declining...
Hey BYC, I have a hen who has this huge bump in between her toes. I have another hen with the same problem. I took a look and found something that looks black (like a clog of dirt) wedged into this strange covering of skin. I've removed it a few times, but it keeps coming back. Now, the skin is...
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Looking for some advice. One of our bantam hens' legs is hurt. She's the smallest chicken in the flock, and we suspect that her foot got caught in the mesh flooring of the coop, and then she hurt it while trying to get it out. We found her hopping around on one leg, her tail was a bit...
Hello! Just wondering whether anyone can help me figure out what is wrong with some of my chicks.
I hatched them in the incubator about three weeks ago. There are 15 of them, mostly Light Sussex. Well, one of my Light Sussex chicks started looking lethargic this morning, and didn't eat anything...
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Our nearly seven year old dexter cow just surprised us this morning with a calf! She's our first cow and this is the first time she's calved since we've had her.
The little calf looked very energetic this morning and was suckling and playing around with her older sister. Sometime...
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We bought a cow sometime during May this year. She's a 6 year old Dexter cow, and we bought her 2 month old (at the time) heifer calf with her. We got her from some friends who have a herd of Dexters roaming around on their huge property. They used to be used for milking, but...
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I posted a thread a while ago about my incubator and that left me thinking. So, I learned that I had bought a Chinabator and was referenced to a BYC post on ''fixing'' it up. It didn't look to hard, except that I was wondering if it is worth while to refit this...
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I have been hatching chicks for a while now, mostly under broody hens, but about eight months ago I bought an incubator to expand a little. I've used it a couple times, but I've never even had a fourth of the amount of eggs I put in it hatch. Well now that isn't going...
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A few of my chickens have been unwell, and acting rather strange. Let me start at the beginning. So one morning when I went to feed them, one of my old silky hens didn't come running for her breakfast as usual. Actually, she hardly took any notice. Confused by her...
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I have been keeping chickens for quite a few years now, and I have noticed that for some weird reason unknown to me my Faverolles are ALWAYS getting sick! No matter how high I try and boost their immunity and help them get over whatever they have whenever they are...
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I've been in the process of hatching a batch of chicks, and I've found that two of my chicks are struggling to walk. They are both over a day old, have eaten and had a drink, and seem very healthy apart from their strange way of walking. I checked what splayed legs in chicks...
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I've just finished my fourth hatch with my incubator, and only a fourth of the eggs I put in it hatched. Nearly all of the eggs were fertile and the incubator's humidity and temperature were just right. This isn't the first time this has happened either. I have a fully...
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I have a few sick chickens here and I was wondering if anyone knows what they have and/or how to cure them? I have one pullet who I bought along with eight other chicks, and as she got bigger, she seemed to start sneezing - a lot. I increased her ACV and specially gave...
Hello BYC!! I started incubating my third batch of eggs yesterday afternoon and switched the incubator on at about 4pm ish, and the last time i checked it was still running was 11pm. This morning, when I got there to make sure things were running smoothly, it was completely off! Turns out there...
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I have had a pretty major issue with red and leg mites over the last few years, but no matter how much or with what I treat them with, I just can't shake them from the coop! I've also moved several times since I started treating them. Any tips would be highly...
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I am from Australia and there might be some Aussies out there who can give me advice. I have been keeping chickens for five years now, with my flock increasing over this time. The cost of keeping the chickens was not a big deal, as it was a small hobby, but the last...