Recently something has been attacking my hens and roosters. Whatever it is doesn't kill or eat the chickens, but seems to pull all the feathers off their backs and sometimes some skin along with it. However, some of the damage is so bad that the chickens die soon after the attack. There is...
This probably isn't considered an emergency, but I wasn't sure where else to post this. With the freezing weather that is coming our way, starting tomorrow, I'm concerned about our chickens. We live in Georgia and typically we don't see many nights below 15 degrees. However, the weather is...
We have a chick that is about 3 weeks old and seems to be eating and drinking fine and looks healthy, but quite often it opens its mouth wide like it is trying to either gasp for air or make some kind of noise, but no noise comes out. Does anybody have an idea of what this may be and if I need...
My chicken sat too close to the heat lamp and it singed her back feathers and a few of her head feathers. So I was wondering if anybody new what to do. The idea I had was to make a chicken saddle but I do not know how to make it in her size. She is about 8 weeks she is half Americana and half...
I have a chick I got her sept. 7th she is by her self because the other other ones are sick. She has all of her adult feathers so does she still need a heat lamp? It is sopoesed to get down in the high 20.
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We have 3 chicks with matted, swollen eyes. We are not sure what this is, what has caused it, and what we can do to help them. Could anyone help us with this? The chicks that have it are 1 1/2 or 2 weeks old. We have some that are a week or so older, but they don't seem to be bothered by...