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My orpington, lemon, stopped roosting several weeks ago and is sleeping in a nesting box. Doesn't appear broody but also sitting a lot during the day and strangely enough she prefers to sit almost in the waterer, so I'm assuming she must feel very thirsty to want to be that close to it. She's...

My Easter Egger, Rue, has been coughing occasionally for a few days. Today we noticed that she's wheezing. If I put my ear to her chest, her breathing sounds normal there, so it seems the wheezing is coming from higher up like from her nostrils. Her piping noises sound hoarse and whistling...

One of my hens, a four-year-old Buff Orphington, has lifting scales on both FEET and does as well as the claws (not legs). At first she looks like she has extra toes, but it just seems to be a shedding thing. I've looked at lots of photos of scaly leg mite and can't see any that look at all...

Hi, A couple of days ago a neighbor brought this hen to me thinking it might be one of mine. It's not mine. Hard to tell in this photo, but it's completely bald on the back and tops of it's wings (shoulders?) That shoulder area is very red, but skin is intact. I think it may be sunburned...

Hi, A couple of days ago a neighbor brought this hen to me thinking it might be one of mine. It's not mine. Hard to tell in this photo, but it's completely bald on the back and tops of it's wings (shoulders?) That shoulder area is very red, but skin is intact. I think it may be sunburned...

Help Help! My chicken has an egg right inside her vent but it's in some kind of membrane and I can't feel the shell. I've tried shooting some olive oil up there with a dropper, given her a couple of tums, and now have her soaking in a warm bath. She's been sick for at least 5 days, and we...

Help-- my sick hen who I thought had eaten a bad plant and was poisoned is indeed actually egg bound, I fear. She's eating some egg and oatmeal and I cleaned off her vent really well with warm water (which had a lot of dried poop on it) and her vent looked very nice and normal. I'd felt all over...

My Rhode Island Red, Merida, has a shriveled comb, poopy butt, and is lying down a lot. Found her in the coop this morning lying under the perch with lots of chicken dander on her back which means the other birds were up there shaking their feathers over her for a while. She's been this way for...

OK, hold onto your feathers! My husband promised to teach my 11-year-old son a little video editing today. Here's the finished product, staring our flock!

Amy Pond is the Golden Silkie on the left-- sweetest little bird ever My one year old Silkie, Amy, (Amy Pond-- for any other Whovians) started staggering and putting her wings out to catch herself like a drunken sailor today. Then she sat down on the porch near the dog's water bowl and drank a...

My two year old Buff Orphington, Sunshine, started staggering and falling down this afternoon, shortly after I let the birds out to free-range in my yard. I can't tell if she's walking in a drunken manner, like she's dizzy, or if she's just unable to bear weight on her left leg. She seems to be...

Hi, I've been doing some research on here about what might be wrong with our Buff Orphington, Lemon. She was molting recently, and I just thought it was taking longer to get her feathers back on her pad. It was taking so long, though, that I decided to look on here just in case, and found people...

I did some research a while back into probiotics for people. The consensus was that probiotics are indeed perishable and must be refrigerated and used within a certain time or the live and active cultures will die and they are worthless. The store where I purchased mine in the past has them in...

One of our chickens laid her first egg ever today. Later in the day, when my son picked her up so I could take a photo of him holding her, quite a bit of clear fluid ran out of her vent and all down his pant leg, even spattering on his shoes. There is no smell at all, and she seems perfectly...

My daughter, Sirena's chickens are just about 6 months old. (she's a member on this site but is at school so I"m posting for her today). She has 5 assorted birds, all big and healthy and beautiful. Plus two fancy bantam types, which are still mostly seperated because they are new. One of our...