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Hi there, So I've got a bird that has a pretty bad case of bumblefoot. I've done a couple surgeries on other chickens and I just never feel like I get all of the infection out. There's always some white fibery stuff once I pull the scab off, and I can't tell if it's supposed to be there or if...

Hi all, I don't know what to do. My hen has a growth or infection growing in the corner of her beak, making it hard to close her mouth. I smelled her head and it's gross. I can't tell if it's her breath or just the wound itself. I can see hard yellow stuff (puss). It's also swelling around...

Hi, I am possibly interested in starting a breed conservation someday, in order to help bring back some of the rare breeds, and help to bring back the heritage characteristics in some of the farm favorites. I know this is probably the dream of everyone on here, but I've been thinking a lot...

I will be doing meat birds this spring/summer, and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do with the "waste" which processing them? Can I bury heads and guts in the garden? Could I compost them in their own pile with dirt and hay? What does everyone else do?

I just came home from work and found my EE on the ground stumbling. I picked her up and her feet feel like ice, and her feet will not recoil or move. Her whole leg is ice cold. She seems to have been dedicating on herself today, which makes sense because she cannot stand. And I put food in front...

I'm now in the process of moving into my first home, but it needs a chicken coop! I have 44 chickens, two guineas, and four ducks. The coop and run they are in now is way too small (coop is 10x10, but the actual living space is I think 6x10. And the run is 20x10, though I was free ranging all...

So I noticed that my leghorn had a really swelled foot the other day. She wasn't even limping on it so I didn't catch it at first, and don't know how long it's been like this. I finally got all the tools to do Bumblefoot surgery, and started in on it tonight. I soaked her feet in Epsom salt...

I have two Millie Bantams, one was straight run and one was a "pullet" from two different feed stores. Here they are at about 14 weeks. Are they both pullets? They basically look the same. Sorry my picture quality sucks. I had to zoom all the way in with my iPhone because they wouldn't...

My chicks are about 7 weeks old, and I know growing chicks shed their intestinal lining and you often see blood in the poo from it, but this seems like a lot to me. Any advice?

I just rushed my Leghorn to a vet for the first time because she was having what looked to be respiratory distress. The vet picked her up and immediately said "Well, she's under weight, and has an impacted crop." I told her I feed the flock layer pellets, cracked corn, and sunflower seeds...

My cousin found some wild Ring Necked Pheasant eggs in the woods on Mother's Day or maybe the day before. He kept them warm in a shoe box until I came over to get them on Mother's Day (May 11th). He knew I had an incubator going at that time, but it was actually horrible timing, because my...

I'm in a *mood* today, and it's causing me to use BYC as my very own diary. If you have any advice or encouragement, throw it at me. I'm kind of in the dumps about my flock right now. So I've had chickens since March last year (2013). I absolutely LOVE it! Ask any of my friends and they will...

I'm in a *mood* today, and it's causing me to use BYC as my very own diary. If you have any advice or encouragement, throw it at me. I'm kind of in the dumps about my flock right now. So I've had chickens since March last year (2013). I absolutely LOVE it! Ask any of my friends and they will...

Tonight will be the first night I have to put down a chick. It's a Freedom Ranger that was labeled as a bantam and its a very nice bird. All of the chick's feathers are coming in, and they were picking the tail feathers out of this poor girl, making her bleed. I've been keeping up with the blu...

I was raking up some pine needles (what I now use for bedding) out in the pines and the chickens were hovering waiting for some sort of treat. One of my Buff Orpingtons jumps in and grabs a Gray Tree Frog (like this one here...

I'm not sure why he's limping so bad. A few months ago, I give him a little toss when I was holding him to watch him flap down, and he had a little bit of a rough landing, but it wasn't that bad. He had a small limp for a day or so after that, but was fine for a couple months. Now the past week...

I got this from Family Farm and Home in the "assorted bantam pullets" bin. It wasn't much bigger than the others in the bin at the time, but now it's right along with my large fowl chicks that are about a week or two older than it. It was yellow with dark lines going from it's head to tail as...

I'm using a Little Giant 9200 series with no turner or fan. I feel like the directions kept saying 99.5 degrees, but they were assuming you were using a fan, while on here everyone was saying 102-103 without the fan. So I was shooting for 102. I set the eggs last night at about midnight. The...

Anyone have any pictures of these? I have a Pekin drake, a Pekin hen, and two Khaki Campbell hens. I'm about to put about a dozen and a half of the eggs from the girls in the incubator and wanted to know what they might look like?

Are Silkies just horrible foragers or what? I have about 23 chickens and they all forage very well except my Silkies (and my BLR Wyandotte, but she's basically at the bottom of the pecking order and would rather spend her time in the coop with the Silkies). Sometimes I see them out scratching...