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Depending on how cool the weather still is, you might want to bring him into a warmer location until the circulation in his comb improves - if it's staying cold and blood isn't flowing to it isn't going to start healing. I put salve on my birds' tender combs - made from beeswax and medicinal...

Your rooster has frostbite. This can be caused by extreme temperature and inadequate coop ventilation, and is more prevalent in big-combed breeds.

Her poops are okay, though I imagine taking one is painful. The swelling has gone down a lot and looks way less panic worthy. She's been eating really well and drinking okay . I will get some spray for her today, it isn't something I've had to use before - other scrapes and pecks have been...

I have to say, sometimes it's hard to come on here with a specific question, especially in an emergency, to field responses that are looking to critique my greater general chicken setup. Not that there isn't sometimes a need for that, but I've just had the experience of having a really hard time...

Here are her cleaned up pictures. I'm horrified. The dark area underneath her tail looks like it may have been hurt for a while? We had a dog attack a couple weeks ago and she got a little hurt, but I'd thought she'd healed. It is definitely mostly peck injuries. I feel so guilty and so want to...

Our girl Duck has a messy situation on her hands. We don't know what happened. She's had issues with the other girls plucking her tail feathers. It started before she came to us and has gotten much better but she still is missing a few and gets one plucked from time to time. We don't know if she...

We'll be calling animal control if it happens again. It wasn't our first line because we initially thought the neighbors would be more responsive. After the second time it happened they finally got him neutered, but he's still been at it. I'm not worried about him in relation to people, as he...

It's great that you have the time and money to do enhancements to your pasture like that at the drop of a hat. If I had the time or money to put up an electric fence before Snatch is likely to attack again, that's what I'd be asking about. I don't. It's not.

I'll recommend a shock fence to the owners - they have downright asked us what to do, which is good on one hand and frustrating on another. However, I do think Snatch might be one of those dogs who could run right past it and out of transponder range without being phased. He is a hard-headed...

Where would I find the fair market value? I don't often see year or two aged birds for sale beyond craigslist, and not often our breeds. A little bit of googling didn't do much good.

While I get that this was meant to be helpful, I have to say, I take a little umbridge to this response to my situation. I protect my birds. My 40 chickens are in a fenced pasture in the middle of my 7 acres. They're checked upwards of 4 times a day. Their pasture is 350 sq ft of 4ft...

My flock has recently been attacked several times by a neighbor's dog. We have been in touch with the neighbor and he is working, albeit poorly, to resolve the issue. The dog has previously killed dozens of local chickens - all belonging to people far more patient and tolerant than me. So far...

I think I will probably keep her. I like her a lot, and I'm glad to know she's been someplace safe rather than wandering far - we've had some predator issues and I just hate to worry!

You were right! She had a hidden nest. I searched for her for three hours today and gave the flock mealworms many times so that the roosters would call. She had hollowed out the middle a straw bale all the way in the back of the big barn and was tucking herself deep down in it. There were 18...

My flock are pasture kept and content that way - except for Pickles, a barred rock. Pickles started out simply hopping out of the fence and grazing along the edges. The past several days she has been disappearing for the bulk of the day and returning in the late afternoon. It really stresses me...

Hi, I'm so sorry to hear that Ezzamarelda is sick. What makes you believe that she has coccidiosis? If she doesn't, the treatment may harm more than help. Feeding your chicken vanilla yogurt could make her sicker. It contains way, way too much sugar. Feeding your chicken unflavored, unsweetened...

My vet took us through some really tough pendulous crop with our bird Tangerine, but it was a lot of work. Neither one of the vets in the practice are a big fan of the crop bra. We did 2 weeks of antibiotics twice a day combined with, it may have been three weeks, of laxatives 3 times a day...

Thanks. I've taken care of her in the ways you suggested. She made it through the night, but is much the same this morning. I guess it's more wait and see.

Saturday evening we came home to birds out of the pasture - something was wrong. I ran over and found feathers everywhere. I was sure birds were dead. A parishioner from the church next door came over to tell us he'd chased off a dog who had managed to get into our fence and chase some birds out...

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm perplexed! We are getting enough eggs from our 37 6-7 month old pullets to do small-scale sales. Most of our eggs go to the family and to our chicken start-up investor, who takes a share of 4 dozen a week in repayment. We spend $300-400 in...