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Well, I can make a fair guess as to how he ended up with poop on his comb, but should I try to clean it off? Brushing with a dry paper towel didn't do much more than confuse him, but temperatures are also going to drop below freezing tonight, so I'm cautious about using water with gentle soap...

Just this morning my Buckeye hen began doing this. She had just been squawking away. What is going on?! 1) What type of bird , age and weight 13 month old Buckeye hen, about five pounds 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Coughing/sneezing, bubbles in eyes Odd breathing 3) How long has the...

Due to a temporarily insane broody (you can read my thrilling Independence Day thread), we have a quintet of peeps in a temporary brooder this week... In our living room (our home is quite small and this really is the only option until we move them into the coop brooder, where we typically brood...

We have a first-time broody Barred Rock whose eggs are due to hatch today. Sure enough, I heard peeping in the coop and popped out to check. Our hen had tossed the still-wet chick from the nest into the litter. I tried tucking the peep beneath the hen several times, including in the rear fluff...

One of my young BR hens is seriously broody. Being fine with letting her set, after dark last night we moved her into her own little setup--the brooder, with food, water, shavings, and cardboard box with a small plastic dishpan of shavings and golf balls (which she has already been guarding...

Our newest flock of peeps is growing absurdly fast, almost certainly faster than did our first flock. Also, I have jury duty in five weeks. Having done a fair amount of reading and thinking, I would prefer to integrate the newbies earlier rather than later. We also do not have extra...

Our nine chicks are 3.5 weeks old and feathering out nicely, with a couple exceptions (the smallest birds, of course, though they are catching up quickly). They have been brooding in the coop since their arrival; we had some unnervingly cool nights (low to mid-50s) for a nervous second-time...

Our new chicks are a day shy of three weeks old. Everyone is happy, active, growing and feathering out, eating and drinking, mocking the grown birds from inside their (large but swiftly getting smaller!) brooder, etc. They have a heat plate and eat medicated feed and nothing else (though I have...

We brought home ten two-day old chicks from the PO today. Everyone seemed fine, though the Buckeyes (quite small!) seemed a bit chilled. We got everyone into the (roughly 4x2.5') in-coop brooder (our basement-less home is under 800sqft and already houses two adults, a dog, and two cats), already...

We're looking to add to the flock and I am wondering: Do Buckeyes do well with confinement in a good-sized (ATM, 18x30ish; presently working on expansion) run? Under current circumstances I cannot let the flock range as often as we used to. How well do the various Wyandottes handle heat and...

Early this afternoon I went out to visit and check on the flock, only to find Matilda, one of our nearly two-year-old EEs, lying in the bedding beneath the roost. Alas, she was not just scratching around searching for a goody. :( *sigh* I had to get to a meeting, but after a quick inspection it...

After being repeatedly rebuffed for a fecal float at our own vet, our secondary vet (long story) was happy to do a float for our flock, though they do not treat chickens. Our dozen girls (who act pretty happy and healthy and begin hollering if we don't let them out of the run on time in the...

Last night while out with the birds, I noticed some odd swelling around the eye of my ten-month old Dominique hen. It is no better today; I did bring her into the garage for an application of Vetericyn, because it looked as though there was a small peck mark or something on the area. Hubby...

Our seven month old EE was lethargic with tan colored poop on her rear this morning. I carefully cleaned her up, then put her into isolation with feed, water, nutriDrench water, and a little hard-boiled egg. She nibbled at her feed but that is it. Hasn't laid since Saturday or yesterday. Is it a...

When our wee flock arrived as day-old chicks twenty-seven-ish weeks ago, we were expecting a male or two—especially since the hatchery had sent three extra birds. For weeks and weeks, Hubby and I had great fun trying to figure out which of our chickens was a roo in the making. Twenty-seven...

...so you race downstairs and outside, asking how you could possibly have lacked the foresight to know installing a slide from the upstairs window would be wise! PEEP PEEP PEEP! It's only a sixty- or seventy-second trip, but suddenly it takes three minutes. PEEP PEEP! PEEP! I should never have...

From one of our nearly four-week old Australorps. Other than this odd poo, everyone, including the chick in question, is acting fine and eating like a wolf. They're on medicated feed, brooder is clean, fresh plain water in a freshly cleaned dispenser every day. I do occasionally toss them some...

He claims I work too hard... Our twelve, week old on Monday chicks have a brooder in the coop that is about 8x3 with an elevated feeder and two elevated waterers. Every other day I round the chicks up into a towel-lined box, remove all the (large pine shaving) bedding to the compost pile or...

Apologies for not having photo or video, but one of our five-day old Dominiques was acting listless this afternoon: just standing, eyes half-closed, while the others played all around her. No strange-looking poops. I completely empty and clean the brooder (which is now about 8 x 3 with a heat...

Firstly, is the plate at the right height? It is lower in the back. The chicks (arrived today) have spent the day running about the brooder, popping beneath the plate for three or four minutes, then coming back out. The temperature will be down to a muggy seventy degrees overnight. Secondly...