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Thanks for the info! It wasn't her first issue. She tended to be a junk food Eater. If she could find it she'd eat it! I'm thinking it may have been my fault. I had 15 chickens wanting their Layer pellets so I threw some cracked corn out on the ground to give myself some room. My barred rock...

Marek's disease is a highly contagious disease that is spread through chicken dander. It's deadly. Unfortunately, Lover didn't make it. I came home to find her motionless with her eyes closed. After inspection of the vent area, I saw yolk.

Mine can't fly at all. :( I wish I was home with her right now to keep an eye on her. Instead I have to depend on my son to check on her when he gets home from school and call me with her condition. Ugh! Her name is Lover because she had been just that-loveable! Sad to see her not doing well...

Anyone think it may have a broken egg inside of it or egg bound, etc since it's running a fever?

Awww So sad. I have one with the same issues right now. Whatever is going on it looks like a death sentence. I've separated her from the rest and have so far done all I know to do but it looks like it's not good enough. I could only hope it's an impaction and not something like Mareks...

I have a barred rock that could barely walk on Monday. She would take a few steps and then plop down. Yesterday, she couldn't walk at all. Since my girls are free-rangers, she managed to get underneath my porch and laid in the shade all day. When I got home I brought her up on the porch and gave...

What was the outcome?

The one in your right hand is definitely a roo. You'll notice as he gets older he'll stick out like a sore thumb (more white than the girls). Mine turned out to be nice - so far. The second he turns mean I'll have the rotisserie on my grill waiting for him. I used to give mine away to a roo farm...

I live in Florida and all of my girls love the rain!!!! When it gets really heavy they run under my porch or go to their coop but generally they run around the yard like little kids. lol

Anyone? I just want to be sure that it's nothing serious and that her eggs are okay to eat! None of my other girls have had a clear discharge from their vent. I'll check her today to see if she still has discharge.

My JG started laying on Saturday. She was being very picky as to where to lay her egg. Long story short she laid it in my aluminum can bucket on my back porch. Crazy bird! It took her 4 hours to lay the egg. She laid an egg everyday (took her a while to lay each one) except yesterday. Today she...

Today wasn't so good - or I haven't found the hiding spot in the yard when they're free ranging! My son came home and found a brown egg in coop 1. Looks like Australorp. Nothing in coop 2 or 3. He opened the runs for free range time and when I got home, I opened coop 2 and found an off-white...

Both of my Buff Minorcas are laying! Yeah! And now, one of the chickens in coop 1 laid an egg! I'm guessing it was an Australorp. That coop has Australorps and JG's and the egg was quite small. Guess I won't find out until this weekend when I'm home and can watch them! So out of 9 girls, 3...

As of yesterday, I can no longer say the Charlie Brown saying from It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown "I got a rock." I got my first egg ever yesterday. I was so excited. And today, my daughter came home and let the chickens out to free range and my Buff Minorca laid another egg! Woo hoooo...

Turned out my silkie mix was acting suspicious at about 19 weeks. By 21 weeks my she was indeed a he....he cockadoodle doo'ed! I posted a pic of my silkie here on BackyardChickens and everyone said he was indeed a cockerel but I was still in denial - until he crowed! So, I guess they can start...

You all were right. My Silkie mix started cock-a-doodle-dooing about 2 weeks ago! Thanks for your input everyone! Very much appreciated.

I have 2 miniature Schnauzers. They are wonderful with my chickens. I raised my girls since they were little chicks and made sure my dogs were able to investigate and visit with the chicks. My female Schnauzer got the name "Little Miss Mama" because she was always so worried about "her" little...

This is Jack. I raised jack from 1 week old. She got her name from from Si on Duck Dynasty..... Hey Jack! lol Anyway, Jack and my RIP roo would always be challenging each other, unlike my girls who never gave my roo any crap. My roo got mean so we had to cull him. But now...Jack is kinda sorta...

I had a Bantam roo up until about a week ago. We had to cull him. He was about 17 weeks old. When he was a chick he was so adorable (when I thought he was a she). The older he got the nastier he got. I at first thought things could work out keeping him around here as my chickens free range, but...

I'm so glad Heidi has a friend! It was sad to see her alone in a coop of her own all by herself. My JG's and Australorps would feather pick and make her bleed so I spared the extra expense to give her her own home!! Now she shares it with Buffy whom was in the same coop with her @ the farm I got...