I had some respiratory trouble with some of my chickens a while back. One hen had facial swelling and other symptoms. She recovered but has been sounding bad with her breathing for a while, especially if I chase or hold her and she has to struggle or run. I tried tylosin but didn’t give it her...
She came from rural king, I’m not sure what she is. Any guesses? I’m not sure what she was suppose to be as they had multiple signs on some brooders, I think Welsummer and welbar was on them. I don’t remember which she came out of, the other one turned out to be a barred rock.
This little girl is suppose to be a French cuckoo Maran, as her feathers come in they are missing the barred pattern so far. This may be normal as I’ve never raised this breed before, I was really hoping for a Maran. She has a very fat body as you can probably tell, she’s one of the heaviest...
I wanted maybe 4 laying hens to give us fresh eggs, one of my friends also wanted about 4. I ended up buying like 6 chicks from rural king but I was wanting a different breed so called around and headed to tractor supply for what was suppose to be “rare breed”, actually turned out to be EEs I...
Curiosity is getting the better of me😂does anyone wanna guess what this baby chick is. I was thinking possibly black sexlink or Easter or olive egger, I don’t know that those are good guesses though.
I noticed this chicken (olive egger I think) had one leg swollen, not really favoring it or anything but I thought it looked weird. I finally caught her and it looks like this. The piece that I have circled in the last photo seems to be trying to come off and is bleeding some. I put petroleum...
Anyone who has had experience with respiratory illness in chickens, does this look like a respiratory disease? Would it be more likely Coryza or a different one? The first chicken I noticed just looked kinda puffy and sickish in her face, no horrible swelling. About a week later I noticed one of...