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I have a 4 year old hen. A while back she developed a hole in her upper beak just below the nose. I don't know how this happened. I don't know if it is an injury or if some sort of fungus caused it. I haven't done any thing to it. The beak has now curled upward at a sharp angle. The lower beak...

Hi, My 4 year old hen is walking funny. Her rear end is hanging low, and it looks like she's creeping along. She eats and drinks ok. I think she is probably defecating ok although I haven't verified that yet. I've felt her body and I don't feel anything solid or abnormal like being egg bound...

My hen Copper died suddenly and unexpectedly. She seemed fine except for a few things. She had stopped laying eggs. Her comb started getting really pale and shrunken. She was eating and drinking ok and running around ok. After she died, I inspected her she did not seem to injured, but did notice...

My pullet Owl has somehow injured her foot or possibly her leg. She curls her toes under on the left leg and walks on the ankle stub and top of her foot. Her foot looks perfectly ok. There are no obvious injuries, no swelling, skin perfectly healthy looking. She can open and contract the toes by...

My hen Owl has done something to her foot. She is limping and when she steps on her left foot she does not want to unfurl her toes out to stand on (although I did she her take a few steps here or there,where it looked fine). She instead tries to put her weight her stub of the leg with the entire...

It's older now, and has slate colored legs

My 4 week old americauna chick was attacked by a hawk, two days ago. Between the mother hen and my husband bursting out the door, it got scared off and flew away. The short story, no bones were broken, does not seem to have internal injuries, is eating and drinking and pooping ok. What it did...

This is a blog I wrote on another site(non chicken related): Well as you know I’ve brought 3 hens and a duck into our family’s lives. The big effort was to produce a coop for them. I had been entertaining the concept for chickens for quite some time, and had even took a class about having...

Hello Everyone! I am very glad to be here. I've been lurking these hallowed pages for awhile now and finally decided to get on board. Thank you to everyone's input on what,how, and when to do, and what to expect. If not for all this information upfront I would not have been bold enough to try. I...