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I'm not sure where to ask this question, but... I have a friend who won't drink the water at my house because I have chickens. She says she knows "a lot" of people who have gotten sick from chicken-poop contaminated wells. I've had chickens for 10 years and have never heard anything like that...

We are raising our own meat birds this year, a slow growing heritage breed called Dark Cornish. The roosters are currently 5 months old and weight 6 pounds. Optimum weight is 10 pounds and we have an appointment to have them processed at the beginning of November. I was hoping for suggestions on...

Hatched my first baby chicks last night, about 24 hours ago. When will they start eating? They have been drinking, but no interest in food yet. I've always gotten chicks through the mail before and they are always hungry when they come in.

I have a sick chick and have been feeding her electrolytes with a syringe. Last night I fed her about 1/2 a cup over a 4 hour period. This morning, 10 hours later, her crop was still all squishy and felt full of liquid. How long should it take a chick to digest water? or food for that matter?

OK- I have a sick chicky. I am very attached to this one and would really like to save her. Please help me. She is a 4 1/2 month old Blue Laced Red Wyandotte named Dove. She has had a few health problems this summer, mites, but I took care of those. Someone pecked her in the eye and it got...

I have a 4 month old EE. She is letharigc and breathing heavily, almost like panting, but w/out the open break. She has been this way since Saturday. I found her when I got home from work, sitting in the middle of the coop panting. When I picked her up I noticed she was covered with what I think...

OK, so I've got 10 girls and 2 Roo's and because of that ratio, all my girls wear saddles to protect their backs. My question is, do I, or should I take the saddles off at some point or can a hen spend her whole life in a saddle? Pros and cons please?

I have a 10 -12 week gold laced Wyandotte. A few weeks ago I noticed a large scab on her shoulder. I think she got pecked by 1 of the older hens and it got infected. I do not think it is broken, but with all the swelling it was hard to tell. It was swollen and pusy. I took her inside and rinsed...

I have a few hens with the sniffles. Someone on BYC said that I should get some VetRX. My agway only had Peter's Rabbit RX. It says it's for rabbits and other small animals to relieve symptom of upper respiratory distress. Do you think I can use it on my hens?

Is it possible that I recived Cornish X's instead of the Dark Cornish that I ordered? This is my first time ordering chicks though the mail and this morning I recived 16 very small, very yellow chicks. I looked at the picts. of the dark cornish chicks and they all seem brown. Will my chicks turn...

My hen has a hurt foot. She is an 11 month old barred rock. About 1 1/2 months ago, my she started limping. I looked up bumble foot, didn't think that was the problem, but I brought her inside for a few days, cleaned up her feet and she got better. About a week ago I noticed she was limping...

OK, so the subject says it all. How do you tell if a hens gone broody? Do they just not get up? and will they sit on somebody elses eggs or only their own. I'd like to let 1 of my girls hatch eggs, but I'd love some signs to to help me figure out if she's ready and when to stop collecting eggs...

I have a little cuckoo maran that just started laying. Her eggs are a regular shade of brown. I was wondering how long it will take for her to start laying darker eggs?

OK, so I started with chickens this past spring. I ordered 10 hens and ended up with 3 Roo's. It's time to cull, but how do I choose? 1 Roo, Sal, has been a pain since he was 3 days old - he's dinner. But out of the remaining Roo's, I have an EE who is a quintessential rooster, he struts, he...

I have a 2 year old male canary, he was a wonderful singer. He molted in August and has not yet resumed his singing. It looks like he is starting to loose feathers again. He lives at my boutique, it is warm & bright. He gets fresh greens from the chef at the café next door every morning, fresh...

Over the last week my EE Roo, Mr. Bo Jangles developed a floopy/droopy comb. I just want to know if it normal or not. Hopefully, here's photo of him that I took this morning if I uploaded it the right way.

Ameraucana, Araucana, EE. What's the difference and how do you tell? I ordered Araucanas, but think I got EE's. How will I know?

I have 6, 8 week old Araucanas and 4, 7 week old Black Sex Links, (my first chickens.) The Araucanas don't seen to be growing, they were always bigger than the Sex Links and now everyone is the same size, some of the Sexy's are bigger. I'm sure that everyone is still growing, but I'd feel much...

I have 10, 4 week old chick living in a brooder in my bathroom, right next to the kitchen. We are having Linoleum laid in 2 weeks and I am worried that the fumes from the glue could harm the chicks. Are chicks as sensitive to fumes in the air as parrots? I’m moving my parrots out of the house...