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We have a chicken that had the scab for bumble foot. When we soaked, the scab came off and nothing else. I need to lance the area because I'm not getting anything with the tweezers and foot is swollen. Should I cut around the opening in a circle? Cut through with one swipe? Or cut to make...

duck may be blind. her eye has a small light blue shine in it. anyway she just has low vision? any suggestions on what i could do?

I'm trying to find a remedy for my chicken. She is coughing and spitting up mucous. I got her Vet RX which I had rubbed on her tonight.. it's kind of like the vapor rub that humans use. I was doing additional research and found this on another chicken forum: When chickens are down with...

I noticed one night while putting up the chickens, my rooster would kind of jolt his head. Almost like he was burping or something like that. I didn't think much of it and he did it a couple of nights later and then I never saw him do it again. He's been really quiet. One day he only crowed...

I need some ideas. My chicken was hit by a car a week ago. He has one leg that he will not put weight on. When I lay him down, he sits up straight with the good foot tucked under, but the bad leg just lies out behind him. His foot on his bad leg will grip my finger but he won't keep it...

We recently switched home owners insurance. They did an inspection and want to know how many goats and chickens we have and what their purpose is for. We have 8 goats (three are babies) and and probably about 40 chickens (15 are preteen chickens). We use our chickens and goats for eggs and...

we have a pekin duck that I noticed was sleeping. Well it ended up there is something wrong with her eye. I didn’t notice this yesterday. I have vetericyn plus for pecking wound, cuts, frostbite, and vent prolapse. Can I use that on the ducks eye?

i have a seven day old chick.. yesterday chick walked around some. This morning it looked like chick was tired. It did get up and go to food. I'm not sure if it ate anything or just laid down . Maybe an hour later I saw chick opening And closing mouth. I dipped the very tip of the beak into...

i have a seven day old chick.. yesterday chick walked around some. This morning it looked like chick was tired. It did get up and go to food. I'm not sure if it ate anything or just laid down . Maybe an hour later I saw chick opening And closing mouth. I dipped the very tip of the beak into...

i discovered my hen who disappeared from the face of the earth came back with chicks. We found the next and there were 2 chicks covered in flies and a few eggs. I brought fly covered chicks in and put them under brooder. One didn't make it. I brought the eggs in since they were cold to the touch...

We have 2 coops and 2 goat pens. And also we have security cameras. It has also been very hot . we had to leave home unexpectedly and asked a family member to feed and water animals. The family member watered and fed animals first day .. second day their friend did. I reviewed camera since one...

got my fishing license! I plan to go fishing this weekend... but can chickens eat fish? Scales, bones , etc?

We let the chickens out this morning and now we find one hen with stuff hanging out. To me it looks like poop and there is a lot of blood. I was unable to load video since it was too large. Anyone know how I can downscale the video? I'm using an iPhone 5s

we are looking at electric fencing and will be putting it up around the 2 chicken coops and two goat pens . We haven't built the second goat pen yet but wanted to put close to a tree. Last year around this time until may we had raccoons.. and a raccoon family killed half of our chickens this...

We got 2 goats in April and now we have a fox. For a couple of weeks my birds have been sqwauking their alarm almost every morning around 5:30am. our house has a forest behind it and makes kind of a horse shoe shape around our back part of the back yard. We also have lights by the coops so we...

I'm having problems with a hen (Dora) and rooster (Henry) showing aggression towards another rooster (Timmy). We got our first batch of chickens March 2015. We had 19 chickens and something attacked them at night and we ended up with 9 chickens. 6 hens, 3 roosters (Big Ro, Middie, and...

Hi, after a long time I have decided to finally join. March 2015 my husband and I got our first chickens. I really can't remember what they are... but I think a lot of them were Rhode Island chickens. We have gotten more chickens this year (in March).. they are rhode island chickens, gold...