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I was gone for the day and came back to two dead chickens One hen ( Moon ) and one rooster ( jack ) Jack was killed in the back of the run where there is no trees and feathers everywhere. ( in the coop there is also feathers) Half of his comb is ripped off and small puncture wounds. The hen...

So this 6 month old chicken has had sour crop for like forever and it won’t go away I have tried vaginal yeast cream. ( that got expensive), Epsom salts, oils, and it got better for 1 day but I messed up😫 and chickens dumped hay exposing straw to him and he ate it now nothing is working...

we haven’t had many problems except for a sour crop that won’t go away but a 2 week old chick started off with a bloody poop stuck to it now it can keep its head up I doubt it’s marvels because it’s rare in this age we were treating for cocci but then this happened help me . It’s not pasty I...

He is 11 months, I was on a school trip and when I got back I found him like this. My flock has a history with respiratory but I haven’t seen anything like this before

I think my pullet has mareks with the symptom of being paralyzed in the legs and weight loss but I have questions. 1.I can’t get state testing because I live in Canada so how would I know for sure what it is? 2. If she recovers will she be able to go back into the flock? 3. She showed...

I came into the coop this morning to find this on my hen Runa - I happened to do a check over on everyone last night and didn’t see any swelling, could it be something in her eye? I took this pic a while ago but now it has bubbles in it

She started this yesterday mid day and it’s just getting worse. I feel no breaks and it doesn’t seem swollen no bumble foot. She is a silkie cross so very fluffy I cut her leg feathers shorter so I could check it out more closely. It won’t be the cause of the perch as it was again mid day. She...

I just unexpectedly got two Brahma chicks right now they are 4 days old but I’m planning on getting some tolbunt polish day old in March when they would be 4 weeks old. I know this can be done BUT the Brahmas would be bigger than regular 4 week olds so would that work with tolbunt polish?

My silkie hen that I got yesterday seems to be straining to get something out of her vent, I don’t feel a egg and she’s not pooping. Last night I soaked her in warm water for about 10 minutes then she decided to jump out. She hasn’t ate or drank, she doesn’t move around but is alert. Is there...

I have a year old silkie hen - symptoms Runny nose, occasional sneeze and a clicking noise when I listen to her chest - any new chickens? No but we combined our two flocks mid winter - what bedding do we use? Wood shavings - when’s the last time you cleaned it out? A week ago - any other...

Hello, I noticed my pullet Luna being sluggish a couple days ago, so I watched her for a bit and noticed that she wasn’t extending her neck. She drinks fine a bit of a hard time eating and preening. She is a bit under weight and weak. Her poops come out kinda runny and chunky. She is 3 months...

I was just candling and I dropped a egg😩 on the floor. It’s been 5 minutes and the chick is still alive, it was bleeding a lot but it seems to have stopped. It’s not a crack that I can cover with wax .help!! I’ll post pictures in a minute

What would I call this colour?? We hatched Kiwi from our black silkie cross rooster and our hen that I forgot the breed. Any gender guesses?? No pointy saddle feathers as does four of the other chickens in kiwis batch. A bit of redness of the comb, posture of a pullet ( the pics I took was when...

where do I tie it to make the exposed yolk sac fall off, I asked in my other thread but got no response and do I leave the floss there or do I cut the floss off after the yolk fell off

Chick has chef with yolk sac and the hen stepped on it it’s leaking yolk and bleeding it swallowed yolk and is likely drowning still attached to the shell can I tie it with floss?

3 months ago we happened to get four silkies and now that they are at 3 months old I need help sexing. I do think I see streamers, and the black one is shiny with green, in the feet pic are those Spurs my daughter pointed that out now I can’t stop thinking about it... will post more pictures if...

We hatched out 2 chicks under our hen they are energetic, flighty, growing but really skinny I can feel their bones but they act fine they free range most of the day but always have food and fresh water out they are 4 weeks old . Our silkies and our Icelandic pullets seem skinny too. We are...

When they spit up the liquid it’s usually after they drink water buttons our olive egger always has a enormous crop at the end of the day so does it over flow because I can see that happening it’s a clear liquid with bits of food her breath doesn’t smell

Chick is 2 days old he hatched under our hen along with a other this morning I came out just to check to make sure they were warm I saw a bit of red so I checked it out he had a big gash on the side of his neck just above the wing. We have taken him inside with a heat lamp, food and water it’s...

We have a broody hen first time sitting on eggs we gave her 4 eggs 3 are growing its day 18 and are going to move her to a dog crate to hatch her eggs. But last night i put her in with her eggs and she panicked she had her head through the bars and wouldn’t calm down I let her out she had a...