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The thread posted before I could add any text, sorry. She came in a “brown egg layer” assortment from my pet chicken last year. She has black tips to some of her back feathers. She is super friendly and seems smarter than the average bird - she has figured out food sources that the other hens...

Still very watery poop. I have given her flock raiser to eat and she is eating. I think I broke her "thumb" toe when I did the last bumblefoot surgery as the swelling in that toe is now worse than ever and she is keeping her weight off it. What else can I do??

It's a thought. I was originally just so pleased to see her looking so bright I didn't think that it might be part of the problem. I've isolated her in a dog cage. Today she had made it out across the yard to the house with the other hens, but she looked miserable. She wasn't interested in food...

Well, I thought she was doing pretty well, but I'm still quite worried for her. She has been out free ranging with the others and gets around just fine, but I noticed she has been less active in the last day or two. When I checked her foot today, it was swollen and hot again, and I ended up...

Thank you! I'm going to try to pick up some baby aspirin for her today. It was a little worrying how big a cavity there was in her foot when I was done, but I know she's a tough little thing!

Well, my friend did her best while I was gone, and when I came home Buffy was still going strong, but her foot was still very swollen and hot when I unwrapped it. I did surgery again today and pulled out a huge amount of chunky white gunk. I hope I got it all, but it was so deep, and I'm a bit...

Thank you for the link, that's a useful post. I am going to see if I can convince a friend to come and treat her for me while I am gone.

I picked her up today to move her and she does have a black mark on the bottom of her foot. So I guess it is bumblefoot. I'm leaving early in the morning, so I don't know if I will have time to do anything for her before I go away. What's the likely prognosis over a week? I feel terrible about...

My buff Brahma has a swollen foot. Her right back toe is huge and she doesn't want to move around much. She free ranges and my girls go all over the place on ten acres, and they visit the neighbours. I've never experienced bumblefoot, and from what little I can see, it doesn't seem to be...

I'm looking for the answer to the same question - and it's my buff Brahma who is also called Buffy Summers! Hope you get her figured out. Mine is very sorry for herself.

I separated mine a few days ago. Girls are so much happier. Laying has resumed!

I have 9 pullets and 6 hens that are about three years old, I think. He is my only rooster now, I gave away the other rooster I had. He's 15 weeks old and I've had him since he was a week old. I think he is just going through a hormonal rush as he matures, and I wanted to give my laying hens a...

After witnessing my remaining rooster forcing himself on one of my old hens who doesn't even lay any more, I'd had enough of his shenanigans. "Benny" has gone to rooster jail in a huge dog crate behind the barn. Catching him to put him in there was stressful enough, I eventually had to throw my...

I've decided it's time to separate my young rooster from the rest of my flock. My hens have stopped laying as he goes marauding around, and it's stressful for everybody (mostly me). I got an XXL dog crate from a friend, the kind with wire mesh walls all around and a solid floor. It is 4'x2.5' so...

Vent away, microchick! I"m learning a lot from this thread. Mostly I am learning that maybe I don't want a rooster after all... Today, somehow, I ended up giving away my red roo instead of the blue one. I figured I needed to get rid of one, and the people who wanted a rooster were so taken...

Oh gosh... Red roo is so funny. He peeked out from under the barn when I went out to clean out the horse stall that I'd used for the chicks. I was shovelling sawdust and turned around to find him hanging out right by me, watching me pretty closely. He followed me around the whole time and looked...

I posted an advert on a local Facebook chicken group to see if anybody would take pesky blue to a home where his talents would be more appreciated, and somebody responded just a few minutes ago! They have a few wayward hens who don't always make it back to the coop at night, which blue roo would...

Now I'm a little paranoid to go out amongst the hens with my earrings in, listening to these horror stories!! This morning my red roo emerged from under the barn, and I think blue immediately set about picking on him. Red stood his ground for a bit, and scurried off with a few pullets. They...

Thanks. That's what I'll do!