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One of my hens has been acting very lethargic for the past few days, has only some interest in food and water, and has runny greenish yellow poop. Today I noticed some tiny white sticks on the feathers surrounding her vent. Could these be worm eggs? They don't seem to be moving. Her poop appears...

Today I noticed that one of my hens is acting very lethargic, just standing around all puffed up. Normally she is fairly skittish, but now I can get up close before she bolts. I gave her food and she pecked at it a bit before leaving it. She appears perfectly normal, except for the cloaca, which...

Is there a name for when you come up to a chicken and they squat down and stick their shoulders out to let you pick them up? Why do they do that?

So I have a flock of seven hens: an RIR (Rene), a Gold laced Wyandotte (Flow), a Silver laced Wyandotte (Minerva), an EE (Gryphon), a Cuckoo Marans (Persephone), a tiny mystery breed that looks like an ee/bantam welsummer, (Olive), and a Buff Orpington (Carmella). Olive, Flow, Minerva, and Rene...

I'm not so great at species yet...could someone help me out? This is not a pic of my pullet, mine is greyer and has less comb. The distinction between black and white is less prominent. These are two of my pullets. The red has fluffy cheeks and has just started laying! The orange is the same...

A couple of months ago my chickens were consistently making a very loud commotion almost every night. They roost in a pine tree at night and fly down in the morning. So the first few nights they were making all this noise and I ran outside to check if they were all right. I live in a little town...

I have seven 4 month old chickens of various breeds along with four older chickens in my flock. I am not allowed to have roosters in town, so I recently had to give away two of the 4 month olds who were bigger than the rest, had large combs and wattles, and were crowing. Roosters, obviously. A...