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My leghorn (2 years old) Cumulus is not eating but is drinking. Her poo is just water and going through her rather quickly. DETAILS: 1) She started skipping laying a couple days/week about 2 months ago. I chalked it up to her never having molted and the heat. 2) Last week I noticed...

How long does a hen need to be broody before she will accept chicks slipped under her at night? As of today, Dr. Girlfriend has been stubbornly sitting on a nest ~15 - 17 days. The other girls were pushing her out of her preferred nest so I moved her to a large dog crate in the hen house and...

I have a friend who wants to acquire a few chicks. RIRs or Buff Orpingtons. If you are in Maryland, Northern Virginia or, maybe, south central Pennsylvania, and have such chickies, please let me know. We live in Glenn Dale, near Bowie. Thank you.

Fern had a limp that did not clear up in a day. I caught her and checked and needed to learn about bumble foot. I brought her in and I soaked her feet in soapy water until the Tricide-Neo arrived. It worked great and you cannot tell that she had a problem by looking at her foot. However...

A friend of a friend has 3 chicks that were acquired at a fair. They have learned that this was not the best idea once they started to grow. They want them to go to a place where they will not be food. My DH said that I cannot have them without attempting to find them another home first (our...

Yes. Chicken Poop Bingo. A take off on Cow Pie Bingo. My DH and I are participating in a bike ride to raise money for climate issues and we have pledged to raise additional funds above our entrance fee. We had a fundraiser party at our home yesterday (attendance was down due to the nasty...

I went to check on the girls this morning and Roseanne just stood there next to the fence while I was spreading out some BOSS and oatmeal while everyone else was eating up the treats. This is not her usual behavior. She was extra easy to catch but she did walk but did not run. I took her...

I am in MD and it has be quite cold here for a couple of weeks. I have a chicken that had surgery and is being kept inside until her feathers grow back in. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=421989 I brought my 2-year-old production red, Virginia, to keep her company in...

Fern is a 1.5 year old EE. She molted really hard a couple of months ago and has all of her feather back now and looks beautiful. EXCEPT - she has had 2-3 feathers sticking out in the wrong directions on her chest for a couple of weeks. Last night I had an opportunity to pick her up and...

I appears that I have an internally laying hen. I have been reading all the posts and I realize there is little hope for Natalie. When I first joined BYC, everyone (including me) was following a post about someone who rescued several chickens, one with a bloated abdomen. She and her husband...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. - Bantam Japanese Kabo; ~1.25 yrs; 5 #? 2) What is the behavior, exactly. - Lethargic, hanging out on roost, not going out when gate opened. Runny poo, leaking yellow, solids are dark brown. 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? - 2...

I wanted to give my girls some vertical space. So we built a chicken jungle gym out of the scrap wood from the hen house construction. My DH making a set of roosts. The finish product. An environmental "henhancement" device made from left over hardware cloth. Making use of the...

The first week of May I picked out these two leghorns, Cumulus and Nimbus, at the feed store (along with 3 EEs and a RIR, but that's another story). About a month ago, one of them started to develop a comb and wattles. I expected the other one to follow suit withing a week. Instead, her...

My Japanese Kabo/buff orpington cross finally laid an egg! She had a prolapse about 6 weeks ago that took almost two weeks of living in the dog crate, warm baths, antibiotic cream, KY, and low light to resolve. After it went back in, I gave her 2 days more rest, with a little more light, to...

I am turning 50 and my DH is throwing me a birthday luau on June 12. All are welcome. We live in Glenn Dale near Bowie. If you are interested, send a PM with your email and I will send the invite with all the important info. There will be tours of the new hen house until dark.

I was putting the flock away today and was using a few pieces of bread to get them to go into the coop. Everyone came but Dr. Girlfriend. She is the smallest and the most picked on so she occasionally tries to be elsewhere. I went to go encourage her in the right direction. I was careless...

Our coop is almost finished. I need to show the very capable handy man a picture of ladder roosts. I tried to find some, but I do not seem to be able to locate any and I have to get back to my work that I am getting paid for. I remember that someone had the BRILLIANT idea of putting the...

The coop that I had to put off from last year due to vet bills is now under way. Here is the current coop where I am cramming 12 chickens. Poor babies. Here is the beginnings of the expanded run. We are more than doubling the run size. I am looking for new hens to go into all the...

I went out the check on the girls this afternoon and the snow outside of their pop door was BLUE!!! It was exactly the same color as the stuff I put in the car for the windshield. I was about to really freak out then I remembered. When I went to the store between snow storms they were out of...