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I will post the necropsy results. Since I wasn't able to get the paperwork printed until after the PO closed, the buffs will not be sent. The white Sumatra that died at dinner time will be sent. The BJG died a few minutes ago as well. Hopefully this is the end of it and the necropsy will...

Another small Sumatra died. It went from being fine to lethargic. From lethargic to no longer being able to do anything but lay on its side 30 minutes) to dead (another 30-45 minutes). The BJG is still holding on in the backroom bin. She can't stand or support herself but her head seems to...

Thanks Kathy. Thank you for the help with the state info too. I spoke to our sate vet at Cornell University. $62 for up to 3 birds for the necropsies. I will mail them today. My BJG is looking worse and worse so she might end up joining the two buffs. I am not sure what to do with the rest of...

UPDATE: The Buff flopped over on its side and started thrashing like she was having a seizure. The other chickens then started pecking at her eyes so I put her out of her misery.

I am in NY. I called DEC already. It looks like the Black Jersey Giant, definitely has it. It is huddled alone. The Buff in the coop now is bopping his head around like she is after an invisible bug or on drugs. One of my small white sumatras is looking weird too...

Good morning. I walk to open the coop this morning and found one of my adult (1 1/2 years old)Buff Brahmas dead. It looked like she had flown out of the coop too fast and smashed into the side of the screened in run. (she's upside down so you can see her. No apparent injuries but from feel...

Well, we had 17 hatch successfully. One died after a day or two but the rest seem to be doing great. Thanks for the help.

My dad is hatching pheasants for the first time and they have all started to pip. The catch is that he realized that he misread the instructions and had them small side up. They are now out of the egg turner and flat on the bottom of the incubator. The chicks are peeping. Is there anything we...

Okay, this may not seem like an emergency but I don't know if I need to do something asap so the chicken doesn't die: one of our chickens snatched a nerf bullet when it was fired and swallowed it whole. Will this kill her? Will she pass it? Any guidance would be appreciated.

I get the whole "how they look" concept but honestly, the polish #2 is probably going more because he is bigger and a loner. Polish #1 though, do I keep him and the other 3? He is obviously able to mate and doing a good job but he does have a gimp when he needs to get somewhere quick. I have no...

I am not concerned with them fighting eventually, it is more that I don't need to buy food and house 5 roosters for a flock of less than 20 hens. Winter is usually a good time to cull because during the winter I will have to provide a lot more food, as apposed to during the summer when the bugs...

I am trying to decide which roosters to cull because of my 23 chicken and 3 chick flock, 5 are roosters. I have two Polish mixes - one has successfully mated and produced 2 chicks but has a little bit of a gimp because he messed with the broody mama and got his butt handed to him. The second...

The cracked egg hatched! Out of the 4 eggs, 2 hatched and the cracked egg was one of them. I am so glad I just left it alone and let nature take its course :) Here's two picture of the babies: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qVeHi31bmag/Uh0OR4jU_MI/AAAAAAAAAYM/Q_vb8YGB24s/s320/DSC02724.JPG...

No incubator. The only good news is that the one that is cracked is the only one I am not 100% sure is fertilized.

So I have a broody hen who has been sitting on her eggs for 15 days now. Today when she got up for her daily poop/water run I went in and checked the eggs. One was out of the next, one had a small crack in it and the other two appear fine. Now she has been an awesome hatcher and broody mama in...

p.s. here is the other thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/788827/new-eggs-and-lice#post_11384380

Exactly! There seems to be only one hen willing to challenge the broody but she seems to be content helping her with the chicks. The only real reason we separate them (instead of confining them all) is because we have a rather small run as we are usually free range. This broody is a first...

I did almost nothing. I pulled the nits off as best as I could and used some wood ash under the baby's wings. I used a little wood ash on the mama too but I didn't giver her a full dust bath or anything. We started letting them outside together at 1 1/2 weeks and the mama has been dusting and so...

Okay, let me rephrase, unless it is safe by organic gardeningstandards and to be handled by a pregnant woman who is also nursing (i.e. me) then using it is not an option. I understand the difference between safe chemicals and "poisons" but most of the treatments used do not meet the criteria...

I would always check when my hen would get up, then I would look.