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Hi! We gave her some antibiotics and her condition has definitely improved since then. We've also been giving her electrolytes in her water, and we're giving her VetRX daily. I don't know the name of the antibiotics we used because we got it from a friend who also raises chickens, but I'll ask...

Hello, I have a hen who's currently having some difficulty breathing. She's one of the sweetest hens I've ever had and I just want to help her get better, so any advice is super appreciated! 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the...

Just checked! It looks clear, there’s nothing stuck there.

Hello! I have a 1yr old red sex-link hen, and since Saturday one of her wattles has been very swollen. She also seems to have a small bump on one of her eyebrows. I’ve tried searching online to find the cause but didn’t find anything that matched exactly. The swollen part of her wattle feels...

Hello! I have a partridge silkie hen with irritated skin around her eyes. It's sort of... rough/crusty, and she scratches at her face a lot. It started yesterday morning. I went to let her outside and noticed that her eyes were barely open. They seemed stuck? She scratched at them a bit and now...

Thank you for all the replies so far! I went out and took some more pictures, with a pencil for size comparison. I live in southern Ontario. It also looks like it tried to climb this stray piece of deck railing that's propped up against the back wall of the coop - so I think that might rule...

Hello, This morning I went outside and saw a LOT of footprints around my chicken coop. Whatever made them didn't get inside, but it makes me nervous anyways and I'd really like to know what animal it was. I found the same footprints on the roof of my rabbit hutch which is nearby. I live in a...

I have a Sussex chicken that (based on information I've read from a variety of sources and from a thread my mom made a while back regarding this hen) has gout. She's had it for almost a year now. We first noticed it last winter, where she wasn't coping well with the cold. When the summer came...

I've been wanting to join this site for a while now, so today I finally did! :D I have a small flock of four, made up of one Sussex, one Rhode Island Red, and two Silver-Laced Wyandottes. I love them so, so much! Here's a picture of one of my chicken babies. <3 This is Chickaletta, the...