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Hello, I have three roosters and in the fall the two younger ones (about a year old) attacked our old, disabled rooster. We separated them into a separate barn and decided to create a rooster only flock to solve our problem. The two young ones, Moe and Murphy, had two pretty significant...

Hello. I have a rooster with gout. We’ve ruled out everything else and he’s had it for over a year. We’ve tried a variety of things to help him. Taken him to the vet multiple times all with no improvement. He’s getting worse with his mobility and pain level so I decided to try the tart cherry...

Hi there, With so many of the health problems in our hens related to being bred for maximum (and sometimes unnatural) production it got me thinking... for those of us who really don’t care that much about production but would love a bird with a long, healthy lifespan would it make more sense to...

Hi. I went out to check on my broody and her one chick that has hatched and found that one of the eggs appeared to be squished like one of the birds had stepped on it. There’s quite a bit of blood in the shell but what I can see of the chick appears normal and it is breathing regularly. It was...

Hi. So we have one solitary three week old cockerel (the other chick didn’t make it) that was hatched by our broody. She has been a great mother to several sets of chicks but I’m trying to figure out when is best to separate them this time because I will not be keeping this guy with the rest of...

Hi there. I know there’s a ton of crossebird information but I can’t seem to find the mix that I’m looking for. I’m wondering what a chick and subsequent adult would look like from my clutch that’s hatching right now. I have no idea which eggs are which but I have a black australorp roo and...

ok so I had a lone cockerel that I rescued and he was so lonely. At first I put in stuffed animals, a mirror, and a feather duster and that seemed to solve the loneliness but as he grew he needed more interaction then what a mirror could give so after listening to him cry all night last night...

I’ve had a hen who has been on and off doing poorly for about a month. Her main symptoms include decreased appetite and weight loss and diarrhea (started after a course of nystatin). She seemed to get worse after I bribed her to eat some more with a bowl of scratch seeds which she ate really...

ok, this is going to be a long shot... I paid to have some blood work ran on my hen who has been generally having problems for about a month thinking that maybe the outward symptoms I was seeing and dealing with were in fact stemming from something related to internal organs, etc. My vet...

Hi all, This chick was found by a Good Samaritan and brought into an animal hospital after being cornered by a cat. No one claimed the baby so I said I’d take it. Have no idea what it is. Any ideas? Breed? Gender? (I know it’s young but it look kinda roo ish to me). Also any tips for raising a...

I know it might be too early to tell but I’m a little paranoid about getting a roo in this batch because that would make the third roo in a year. Can you help me determine if they are all pullets? There’s one chick I’m worried about -Opal whose tail is slightly longer then the other two and she...

Hello. Today my rooster’s (Walter) comb started turning purple on the tips. At first I thought it was just dirt from a dust bath but when I tried to wipe it off it doesn’t come off. It looks as if it’s bruised almost. But when I felt it his comb seemed cold to the touch. Winter is pretty well...

Hello everyone, We have a Cochin hen who has consistently been brooding every other month since she raised her first chick (and only chick). She was a fantastic mother but I didn’t want her to hatch anymore eggs for fear of getting another roo. So this time I bought her three pullet chicks from...

I think I’m at my last straw with my water container... this morning the piece of garbage lid didn’t screw on for the thousandth time and I thought it had. Leaving me rushing out the door to work and covered in dirty chicken water and mud splashed from the mess everywhere. And leaving my newly...

We have a sweet roo that was born as a surprise. We were on vacation and our Cochin hen sneakily brooded a single egg while our unknowing house sitter was watching them. He was born Sept 22. His dad is an absolutely awesome rooster. But he and dad are starting to not get along. And he is so...

i have a hen who will be three years in February. Her name is Fern. She’s a barred rock and otherwise in good health. She started her molt last week and rapidly lost the majority of her feathers. She has had new pin feathers coming in for several days and has been perfectly normal. This morning...

Hello, I have one egg that hatched Sept 22nd and I’m not sure if it is a rooster or hen. It is a cross between a Black Australorp rooster and Cochin hen. Because it is a mixed breed I’m not sure what to expect it to look like. I’ll try to post pictures of mom and dad too so you can see what...

Crowing is a form of communication. I'm just curious what people think about when your rooster crows, should you crow back? I read something about how when multiple roosters are housed together the order in which they crow indicates dominance... So to teach the rooster you are dominant should...

Hello, I am curious if anyone has found a good material to use on the ground of a run somewhere where it rains a LOT? This winter has been Nothing but rain for us and we have been battling with keeping our girls out of the mud and puddles all winter. We had to resort to tarps over the leaky roof...

Ok, a lot has transpired since I originally wrote this post while waiting for BYC to come back up but I'm going to comply and paste my original comments then add in comments at the end. Hello, thanks in advance for any help or wisdom you can offer. I have one sick hen, Edna. And two others that...