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She doesn't crow and she lays eggs, so I'm pretty sure she's not a rooster. I actually thought I might have a dyke hen! I'll give her another chance then, and try to see if she's really doing any damage. Thanks for the replies.

I've noticed this Black Minorca jumping on the backs of a couple of my RI reds and appearing to bite at their necks before, but thought it was just another bit of odd chicken behavior. Lately, though, I have several hens that have been pecked at a lot, with missing feathers on their backs in...

I had 3 cuckoo maran hens, 5 months old, all apparently quite healthy. I don't think I've gotten any eggs from them yet, because I haven't seen them in the nesting boxes. I found one dead in the coop 3 mornings ago, with a bloody pulpy vent but otherwise appeared just fine (well, except for...

Here's a page with lots of poop pictures that might help. http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0 Sounds like it could be normal ceacal or could be worms. Which one does it look like to you?

An update. I tried to probe around the vent but she didn't like it, probably because I don't exactly what to do. But it wasn't very flexible and I didn't want to hurt her. Anyway, I let her out of the cat carrier to wander the coop for a while. She attempted to eat with more energy than this...

She finally had a very small poop and it looked like the photo 3rd from bottom on this page http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0 -- same symptoms too. I hadn't heard of egg peritonitis, so I researched that a bit. My husband had reported a broken egg a few days ago, said it...

I have a 5 month old white leghorn who has been lethargic the past 3 days or so. She isn't interested in food or water, won't drink even if I dribble water on her beak, and half-way pecks at food but isn't actually eating. No other symptoms, breathing is okay, everything appears healthy. After...

I have 22 hens that are now 5 months old (4 different breeds -- Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn, Black Minorca and Cuckoo Moran) and have recently noticed the brown warty lesions on the combs of 5 or 6 of them, mostly the Leghorns. Mosquitoes haven't been a big problem. They don't seem to be...