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One of my hens has a hard swollen butt/ abdomen and seems to not have eaten much over the past few weeks. Every time I come home for the weekend It has green poop that smells very bad all over it's butt, and I've been cleaning it off. Since I've noticed it was swelling it seems that all...
I'm worried one of my chickens hasn't been eating or drinking enough and I think it has something to do with it's foot. It seems to be tripping when it walks and when it stands only stands on the left foot. I think it might be some disease, from what I can tell it's not an injury, because It...
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I'm a college student in product design and I want to hear your hate/love about certain coops and their features. I recently built a chicken coop myself, and much of the design was inspired by the takes of people I've heard on this website. I'd like to quote them in my presentation...
I recently had a hen die, and I didn't examine the body because I wrongly thought it wasn't contagious, but I've noticed another one of my hens is doing the same thing, but at least right now it's not as bad.
Like the last one, It generally has slower movements then the rest of the hens, and...
So I have a pretty aggressive rooster (Kaiser Fertilizer, also my username) who keeps taring up my hen's backs. He started last year, thankfully all my hen's healed ok, but it's begun again. I've took every measure I know to stop the damage, but I want a better solution. Filing his claws, hen...
My chickens were recently attacked by my neighbor's dog, which is a problem in itself, I might post about another time. I was so upset because I thought I had lost a rooster and a hen, only seeing 5 of my hens out of the 7 chickens total. I saw the dog upon walking outside and the missing...
I've seen plenty of evidence that my 6 road Island red hens and 1 rooster are molting, But I'm worried about their backs. The rooster loves to mate, and a few of my hens have bare backs and upper parts of the wing, very red at times. I bought a few hen aprons but they don't seem to do anything...
When I went outside to check on my chickens this morning I noticed that they were abnormally quiet. I didn't think to much of it, because the rooster did crow and all of them seemed fine. When I went outside again later to file my rooster's spurs nails (I'm still confused on how to do it, if...
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I want to know as much as I can about ventilation in a prefab coop. My chickens have been sleeping on top of the coop almost all summer, and I want them to go back in before the fall/winter starts. It's likely the reason is excessive heat and poor ventilation. I've heard people with...
Hi, my rooster and my other hens are exactly one year old. And I've asked about several health conditions that people have told me are signs of molt. A few lost feathers, a few "jelly eggs", pale hen legs, pale eggs, and less eggs this past week or so since they laid jelly eggs. of course, the...
My chickens are almost exactly one year old! August 10th is their collective birthday, the day before I got them at the hatchery as day old chicks. I'm thinking about finally naming them, among other activities. I've waited this long to name them since I knew some would die, and of course, two...
Hello, I'm listing all my chicken's behaviors and conditions and seeing if anyone notices signs of something wrong. Or that something is wrong. I thought in stead of making a million posts about small things that may not be a problem at all, I'd list several things in one post.
-Chickens have...
I don't really know what kind of answers I'm going to get from this, but one of my chickens has a pretty large cut on it's side, and I have no idea where it came from. This past summer I lost 2 chickens, one to a dog attack while they were outside, and one to a raccoon who got into my run. From...