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Good Morning Everyone! I have 2 young Barred Rock roo's 4 months old. The bigger one started crowing so we figured, at the time, that the much smaller one was a female. We named the big one Rocky and the small one Pebbles. Then, Pebbles started crowing. Rocky is still quite big. Pebbles is...

Good Morning All, I've had chickens now for 6 years. Not once have they had issues eating the hostas that border my driveway by the house. My approx. 4 month old chicks of various breeds are trotting to the hostas every morning within 10 minutes of my letting them free-range. My poor hostas...

Hi Everyone, One of our beautiful Buff Orpingtons was killed today. Not sure what time, but before 5:30 tonite... I'm guessing she was dead maybe an hour or 2? (stiff body), so good chance it was still light out. I found her between the walkway to our patio and the house, and about 4 feet...

Hi All, ANY help you're able to give identifying what is going on with this eye would be great. I'm afraid she's going to be blind soon. Started about 4 days ago on my almost 6 yo Easter Egger, Mable. Every morning it's notably worse. I've given her Duvet Duramycin-10 Tetracycline...

Pleeeease see if you can help my hen. "Spring" was not quite herself (just a bit sluggish) but didn't have any concerning signs a week and a half ago. I went out of town for a few days and when I got back noticed she had not "bounced back". Her underside (back end 2-3 inches below her vent)...

Hi All, I have a hen that I'm quickly trying to relieve of what I see as possible eggbinding. I've read in some posts that Calcium should be given for the problem and that this can be via TUMS. I have Tums (Regular Strength Antacid/Calcium Supplement). How do I give this? Crush into a powder...

Hi Everyone. I have a hen (an important pet) with an extremely swollen underside just behind the legs and encompassing the butt area. She has loss of appetite. I massaged her earlier today which seemed to help her want to come out of the coop but then she just sat under a bush, and I just...

Hi Everyone! I have a hen (the very obvious Alpha) that I noticed yesterday had raspy hindered breathing. She was moving around and eating, just very noisy breathing. And, when she tried to make sounds, they came out hoarse like she had laryngitis. I thought maybe it would clear itself. This...

Hi All, I noticed yesterday that one of my hens has what I believe to be a prolapsed vent. Her butt area is very dirty and the redness is swollen out about 1 cm. I washed her butt once during the day and once last night. She is separated from the flock and is currently camping in my first...

This one is for the ducks folks out there. Any help would be greatly appreciated... A little background first... We have 3 Pekins. One is a 2 1/2 year old (female "Bonnie") and two are almost 1/2 year old (1 male "Donald" and 1 female "Daisy"). Everyone is happy and free-ranges with...

Hi Everyone, This is what is going on... my 1 1/2 year old Leghorn, Evelyn, was not acting quite right this afternoon. Not moving too much, laying around, not going into coop on her own at dusk. She's usually the hunter of the flock catching mice and frogs. My hubby put her in the coop...

Ok, this is the scoop... My 1 1/2 year old RIR named Rosie (sounds silly, but I'm assuming it's a gender confused rooster... never laid an egg, tried a poor attempt at crowing when s/he was 14 months old, not really since) has a large lump in his chest area. This is directly in front of him...

Our Pekin lays everyday like clockwork... Better than the chickens. Today is day 3 that she has not laid. I don't think she's taken a day off since she started laying. She is also having almost what I would describe as labored breathing. It doesn't seem hard for her to breathe, just bigger...

Hi All, I just just checked on our 1-year old (and only) Pekin, Bonnie, and this is day 3 with no egg in the nextbox. She always uses the chickens' nestbox EVERY DAY. 2 days ago I noticed no egg. Yesterday, no egg and in the afternoon she was doing a (not gasping) but a fish impression with...

I saw something new at lunchtime near our chicken run... looked like a dark otter/weasel-like shape with a slightly bushy tail sort of like a squirrel. Bounded away through the snow, not running but more wide leaping like a dolphin... leap, leap, leap. Was very afraid of me. I was about 60 or...

One of our two Pekin ducks (Clyde, a female) was killed by a hawk. Since day-old ducklings, they have been raised with 8 chicks. They are all cooped together. This is my question... Bonnie (the now lonely Pekin duck) comes out of the coop in the morning looking for Clyde. It's so sad. :'(...

One of my 7 month old Pekins ("Clyde" a female) has started to limp. She and her friend ("Bonnie" another Pekin) are virtually inseparable, however Clyde has been lagging behind when walking around in the yard, especially the last 3 or 4 days. Clyde is the slightly bigger of the two Pekins and...

Is this normal? I thought ducks laid eggs anywhere, but we have a Pekin that seems to be laying eggs near and sometimes in our chickens' nestboxes. Also, how often to Pekins lay eggs? This one is about every 3-4 days that I'm finding. There may be some she's not putting in the coop. Thanks!

Hi! On the floor of our chicken coop this morning (where we also house 2 Pekins) I found what would be a large cream-colored egg with some mottled brown spots on one end, almost 3 inches in length. I'm thinking it's one of the ducks that laid it. We don't know what gender our ducks are, but...

Looking for feedback on poultry feeds made by Wolf Brothers in Richmond, WI. Thanks for any input!