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Thanks for all your help. Just to update the little chicken who was sick died within a day despite our efforts. The rooster pullet was fine--after quarantining him for a day he seems fine so I let him out and he has been healthy along with the rest of the flock. She was a weakling from the...

Thanks I'll keep you posted--and I'm embarrassed to say but what I was feeling wasn't the crop, it was her esophagus. When I checked another chicken I realized that. She did seem to have diarrhea and had poop all over her butt so coccidiosis seems like a high probability.

Thanks. I started her on Amprol in water--fed by syringe and medicated feed. Unfortunately she didn't make it. She never ended up with bloody stool but did seem to have diarrhea. I have 8 other chickens--6 of them 3 month old pullets. One of them seems to be acting funny--more...

Help! I have a 3 month old salmon favorelle who has always been a bit of a weak chicken. She was badly pecked as a young pullet, now generally left alone, but is small and mellow. The last 2 days she has been increasingly lethargic. She has been standing in the same spot all day in the run...

Yikes. That sounds bad. Glad to hear your chicken made it. I checked on the chick today and it looks like the wound might be turning the corner. The neon green hue is gone and swelling is decreased so that must be a good sign. Thanks for the help. I plan to pick up some blue kote this...

Thanks so much. We have the injured chick isolated in a dog crate in the run/coop with the others. I did try her with the most docile chicks and they pecked her. Now I am quite concerned as her rump is looking infected--almost gangrenous--the tissue itself in a couple spots has a weird green...

Hello We have four 4 week old chicks we raised outside from eggs with a broody hen, and 2 buff orp chicks that are 3 weeks old (we added them as chicks.) We came home today and one of the 4 week old chicks was badly pecked--her entire neck and rear end bloody and featherless. We removed her and...

I have a 1 year old barred rock that looks exactly like that and she's a hen. She doesn't make any crazy noises though.

We are on day 20 and two of seven eggs hatched! Very exciting! Mama hen, so far, seems to be good with the chicks. We haven't intervened at this point. We will watch and see what happens.

Thanks! That is good advice to have a brooder set up just in case. We ended up leaving the wire mesh up to separate her from the other hens. The broody is definitely at the bottom of the normal pecking order and since she has gone broody that seems to have escalated. The other hens were not...

Thanks Foul Odor. Before putting in the mesh, the hen never budged from the eggs. She only pooped when we removed her daily and put her on the ground. Our fertilized eggs are labeled, I was just concerned as the other chickens were climbing on her in the nesting box and laying on top of her.

Hello I have a broody hen on day 7 sitting on foster eggs. She is in the nesting box our two other hens usually use to lay. The two other hens were climbing on her to lay so we put up a wire mesh to keep them out of the box but that means mamma hen is confined to a very small space--ie milk...