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The last couple of days I have noticed that one of my hens looked strange. Her eyes are swollen, she is missing feathers underneath her chin, and all over it looks like her feathers are thinned out. It looks like she has some nasal discharge also. She eats normally but just doesn't look good at...

When going to feed the chickens this morning I noticed that one of my hens is beat up. All of her tail feathers have been plucked (except for one) and she has a raw/bleeding spot on her behind. My three other hens are completely fine, so I am positive nothing got into the pen. My four adult...

I have three Speckled Sussex pullets. I have been trying to introduce fruits and vegetables to them and they hate everything I have tried. I was reading somewhere that their breed can be picky eaters... is this true?

I am considering getting ducks sometime in the future. Currently I have a 10x10 fully enclosed pen and a small coop just big enough for my three Speckled Sussex chicken s. I only want 2-3 ducks... could they live in my current pen with my chickens? I know they would need a house of some sort...

At the beginning of July I got three Speckled Sussex chicks from a feed store, they were sexed and thought to be pullets. These are my very first chickens (but definitely not my last) and I know that sexing is not always accurate at the hatcheries (90%). When I first got them, one of the chicks...