The weather was pretty good, we had some rain for a few days, temperatures were around 70s and then it went straight to 40s-20s last week. Two hens have had a pale comb since then (I will add a picture of one of them). I'm guessing it is just from the cold. Another hen I noticed was breathing...
PLEASE ANSWER IF YOU CAN HELP I FEEL LIKE I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!!! He is lethargic and droopy, not eating a lot, not drinking a lot, seems to take deep slow breathes, always laying down, his vent is pasty, toes curl when I pick him up, he has bumblefoot, recently traumatized, the whites of...
This rooster has been acting very lethargic, breathing strange, underweight, eating less, drinking less, always laying down. He has bumblefoot. Checked his vent and wondering If this is vent gleet? Tried to check his eyes and they seem really red
Megamind(sick chicken) is a 1 year old rooster. He got chased by my dog a couple weeks ago. Around the time he started to act weird. We also saw some red poop around this time and began treating the flocks for coccidiosis. We just stopped giving them corid. This last weekend he was again...
Our golden laced polish rooster has been acting very odd for the past week and a half or so. We just trested them for coccidiosis because we saw a few red piles of poop. He was recently attacked by our puppythis weekend and almost killed but he was acting bad before that. I'm not sure what is...
We bought ingredients to make our own chicken feed. Looking at many sites, they all say something different so we're hoping to get advice from anyone else who makes their own feed. Btw they are also free-range and are given egg shells and table scraps. Here's what we got.
1. 25lb of black oil...
I came out to the chicken coop after school and saw a bright red pule of poop. It was wet so I'm guessing it's fresh and had a foul odor. I found another red dropping near our other coop. I have never seen poop like this before and we have had chickens for over a year now. There are other...
Our two dogs have just been diagnosed with roundworms, our 10 month old puppy has been showing symptoms for a couple of weeks. They are just starting medication for it today. I figure if my dogs have gotten worms than it's likely our chickens have it too. We have had them for a little over a...
These last few times we have cleaned our chickens coop we noticed that their poop looked like messy piles of mud and there were BUGS in it! I was hoping they were maggots and after the last cleaning I put some fly repellent in their coop (that was last week) but there are still flies everywhere...
I have a hen that has been walking around all poofed up and making a loud squaking noise since they were let out this morning. She is a 1 year old buff orpington. She has been broody two times and since her last time she has not laid an egg so I don't think she is broody. She was pacing back and...
Three of our four eggs hatched a couple days ago under our broody. She has rejected the first chick who had gotten an injury so we brought her in to be raised by us rather than the hen, and we did so with the other two eggs that hatched. Yesterday evening the fourth egg (laid a day later than...
Came out to check on the other eggs that are supposed to be hatching today and one of the eggs has chipped a piece of the egg shell off but I see a bubble forming when it breathes in a white liquid, is this normal during hatching or should I try to help, and how?
We discovered her around 1:00 pm, she was on the floor of the coup with a huge mark on her face. She was acting normally and we tried to put her back into the nesting box with mama, but she started pecking at her so we brought her into the garage and then into the house because she was getting...
I am a first time chicken owner and we have just had our first hatch; we got our chickens in June of 2021. Today we noticed that my broody hen, Waffles, had hatched 2/5 eggs that had first been laid (a sixth egg had been laid at some point by another chicken). We set up a dog crate in the coop...
I am a first time chicken owner; we got our chickens in June of 2021. Today we noticed that my broody hen, Waffles, had hatched 2/5 eggs that had first been laid (a sixth egg had been laid at some point by another chicken). We set up a dog crate in the coop for her and I moved her nest with the...