I have a 2 year old Speckled Sussex that is pooping clear watery fluid and puffing out her feathers. She is still eating and drinking pretty much all of the time. However, she is noticeably lighter. I’ve seen a lot of posts asking what could be the cause of watery poop but I haven’t seen a...
I have a chicken that laid her first egg Yesterday. We collected the egg in the morning and she looked like she was doing great. However, later in the afternoon we saw that it looked like she had a severely prolapsed vent. But, from the time we first noticed it and the time we were able to...
Help: I have a 8 week old leghorn chick that has developed a very large and very soft (almost jiggly) lump on her breast. At first I thought it was an impacted crop but this is soft and feels like it is filled with fluid. Has anyone seen this before and what do I do?
Can anyone tell me if an impacted crop will go away on its own? If not, is the best remedy to insert vegetable oil in the back of the chickens mouth?
Also, how young is too young to clip wings? We have 7-8 week old chicks that we are starting to integrate with our two older chickens and the...
We were recently given two pullets (that we were told were around a year old) to start our backyard flock. We are new to raising chickens but we have wanted to and have researched It a lot for years. We thought getting chickens that were already a year old would mean that we would have eggs...