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I have a barred rock hen that we got on the 25 of march. she is acting sick and I don't know what is wrong. she is panting, her belly feels swollen and warm and she had a bunch of poo stuck to her bottom, I cleaned her up and saw it looked like she was trying to poo or pass an egg as her vent...

I hope this is the right place to post this, I want to worm my flock with ivermectin and I only have the paste, does anyone know how much I should put in a gallon or two of water so I can just do it that way instead of having to catch each bird pry open there beak and give them a pea sized...

egg yokes ruptured when I open eggs, what causes this? seems when I crack some of my eggs the egg yoke is ruptured or breaks and I dont know why?

I have an Americana chicken that is staggering she had a drooping wing and I thought it was just do to the heat but it is cooler today and she is still kinda staggering not as bad as she was but still a bit. she is thin and did not want to eat. the only thing she would eat is berries. she...

we are getting some hot weather and we usaly do not get hot weather like this or at least not for a long time. my birds seem very stressed. I am keeping water full and wondering is there anything elese I can do to help them in this heat?

we have way to many roo's and we only have two coops. we have aprox oh maybe 30 hens and wow we have like 5 roo's we are trying to decide which roo's to keep, now the one coop is mostly a Cochin coop it has some small and large girls and then it has two frizzle bantam roo's very cute and one...

I went to the coop to collect any stray eggs and make sure they had water this evening and I saw the weirdest thing. we have some hens that have been raised together since they were chicks they are about 4 years old one is a Americana and one is a road island red. at first thought the...

I like to clean our coop once a week. I clean the water and food holders every day, and I scoop poop if I see it laying around. I free range my flock a lot so they poop outside a lot but they poop at night also. we have a horrid time getting them to roost on the bar in the back of the coop...

I have a hen french copper maran with nice feathering a little sparce but nice on her legs, and then we have a roo copper maran we call Copper. he has a lot of coper on him all over. a friend who breeds them and sells them for money 25 a bird says my roo is not fit to breed is this true? are...

we have a Easter eager that is very ill, we have had our share of trouble with our birds we had a couple checked out and the vet said we are OK so we felt we were on a good roll. my bird was bought march 25 she had a rock hard crop and I massaged it and then she ate a bit the next day her crop...

does anyone know where I can get a chicken saddle pattern or get some for a good price. my roo is pecking my hens bald and is making them all bald by there tails. they look so sore by there tails were they have no feathers it is just a lucky few that are the roo's fav but I want to protect...

Hello, does anyone know where I can get a pattern for chicken saddles or get them for a good price? some of my hens have been plucked bald and are almost bald back by there tails. also do they make such a thing as a chicken bonnet or cap> my poor beautiful black giant Cochin she is the...

I was in the feed store and saw they had some, what they were calling black french copper marans. they said they got them from someone local gees they were 6.99 each, anyway I got three and one is getting brown on the tips of the feathers, can it still be a french black coper maran with brown...

I had tried to hatch some eggs I got from this site and they did not hatch well I think two did but then they died.. is there a way to encourage a hen to get broody. the person I got the eggs from was very kind and sent me some more, I was so surprised when I got them, but now my hens are not...

I have a bird and they think it is MC I think that is the abbreviation for it... it has a swollen eye that looks like it is bulging out, no goo in the eye and the other eye is fine. I have isolated the bird and I am giving it tylan 50, .5 ml once a day. I want to give some to my flock to...

I posted a post last night but only one reply, I am sorry to have to repost but I need help...can anyone tell me can I put tylan in watter for my flock. one is haing eye issue and some are sayning sounds like the diase that can transfer to the whole flock from what I am seeing form other posts...

we have a white legger cochin cross she is about oh I would guess maybe 5 mo old. she is getting a very swollen eye socket. if you look down from the top of her head it looks like the eye socket is bulging out or all swollen. we had this happen to one other bird like one year ago and she died...

I have 20 cornish cross and one died, it was not doing well last night. I noticed it panting and not wanting to move around much. it also did not want to eat. I seperated it from the others and today it was dead... I noticed some of the others maybe 3 also panting. I left the coop for a bit...

I went to check on the hen setting on the eggs I ordered and put under her. she has rolled a couple out so I tossed them becuse they did not look so good. today I picked her up and she is skin and bones. my hens get thin when they are broody but this is her first time hatching. I took her...

ok so I got an incubator and now we are so broke, like we all are right, I am thinking I should take it back so I can get suplied for the birds we have, I have many good broodie hens and may just let some of them try to hatch the eggs I ordered. what do you all think are broodies as good as an...