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I have a bantam cochin that someone gave to me because she was just laying in their run, and sleeping in the rain rather than going into the coop. Clearly she was sick. I have chickens, but I brought her into my house and dropper fed her to try to help her. She spent about 3 days completely...

I just moved from town out to the country and have a coop and run setup next to the woods. My first day there, one of my hen's fertile eggs went missing! No sign at all of what took it! The second day, another fertile egg went missing! However, the non-fertile eggs (that the others were...

It's a long story, but I "rescued" two meat chickens this summer. They did well until they became full grown. The rooster I believe just got too fat too fast, and stopped walking. He walks around on his knees. I've been careful about their diet, but he just can't get up on his feet. The hen...

About a month ago my rooster was attacked by another rooster and his waddles were disconnected from his beak. Vet did surgery to see him up. Eating has been slow, and last several days I've been tube feeding. Today his bottom beak broke (i didn't see how). Has anyone ever fixed this? Or do I...

My RIR is 3 years old. She rarely lays eggs anymore. Yesterday I noticed she was open mouth breathing. I picked her up and she turned purple. I brought her in and when I'd set her on the floor, her color would come back. I noticed when holding her, that her back end and abdomen feels very hard...

This bantam rooster got in a fight and his waddle is detatched from his beak. Vets are closed. Can I put new skin on, or is there anything I can do? Its still bleeding a bit so I'm putting corn starch on. Any advice please.

I'm asking this just out of curiosity, as it's too late to do anything. A friend of mine sold about 17 of her chickens (mostly roosters with a few hens) to a man for $80. He said he lives out in the country, and the chickens just free range on his land. Some where full size roosters, some were...

I have a rooster who was perfectly normal until around 5 months old. His symptoms started with the toes on one foot beginning to curl, but he continued to walk and get to his food and water ok. Eventually he lost use of that leg, and at that point I brought him indoors because he wasn't able to...

We have a rooster who is about 6 months old and began to lose use of his legs. We took him to an avian vet, and they feel he has Mareks. They said there as nothing we could do except keep him comfortable and put him to sleep if it looked like he was no longer happy. I want to do everything I...

I have a rooster who is about 6 months old. He was born just fine, but a couple months ago, one foot began to curl. He continued to walk on the side of the foot, but his walking got progressively worse. About a month ago he got worse really fast and his other leg began to stiffen and toes curl...

Is anyone out there "rooster heavy" and successful with it? We have three roosters and seven hens. We live in town and are starting to have a crowing issue. I am thinking of trying the no crow collar, or bringing them into the garage at night, but even if I get the crowing under control, am I...

I am a new chicken owner and have four hens who are not yet laying, but should be getting close. We built a very small 4x4 chicken coop, raised up off the ground 2 feet for the girls. I regret already building such a small coop, as I'm finding it hard to put nesting boxes inside. I used up...

We got four pullets a few months ago and have become SUPER attached to them. They are all very tame and sweet. They live in a 4x4 coop off the ground at night, and free range in our fenced in yard during the day (I work from home and homeschool, so we are home all day). This morning I opened...