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Today one of my chickens has been walking with her tail to the ground like a penguin. She is still moving around but she is panting heavily. Is she egg bound? I am not sure when she last laid an egg. How should I treat her if she is egg bound? Should I soak her in Epsom salt water? Any advice...

On Sunday I first noticed that one of my chickens was looking a bit bloated. By Monday her abdomen was very large and she was struggling to breathe. On Tuesday after some research, I determined that she likely has ascites. I watched some videos on how to drain the fluid. I used a large syringe...

Around a day ago I noticed that one of my chickens has a bloated abdomen beneath her vent that feels like it is full of fluid. She has been having very watery diarrhea and is breathing heavy. Today her abdomen feels a little bigger and she looks painful. She will still eat and drink and her comb...

Yesterday morning when I went out to my chicken's coop I found one of them laying on the floor. I picked her up and she was breathing with her mouth slightly open and her crop was very large and squishy, it felt like it was filled with fluid or gas. I thought she might have sour crop and I had...

My chicken is around 10 years old. It is wintertime and she has not been eating much, she will not eat her hen food and will only eat certain foods on her own. She had even started losing weight. I have been hand feeding her more food like egg and peas by pushing small pieces into her mouth and...

Yesterday one of my chickens was attacked by a large stray cat. I was able to scare the cat away, but now my chicken has a puncture wound in her right thigh. The wound is small, though it looks deep and goes down into the muscle, it is not bleeding. I immediately rinsed the wound with distilled...

Today I was cleaning off the feathers around my chickens vent because there was poop stuck on them. Then I noticed small brownish colored mites crawling around her vent. I checked my other chickens and two others had noticeable mites but I sifted Diatomaceous Earth through all of their feathers...

My old English game bantam rooster has been trying to grow the feathers back on his tail, I suspect that they fell out because he was starting to molt. New feathers started coming in, but today when I saw him he only had a few bloody stumps left of the new feathers. I saw one of the hens pecking...

My OEG bantam hen has been acting very weird all day. she has been puffed up and just standing around, she seemed fine this mourning though. It is fall here in Michigan and we just got our first bit of snow, I don't know if she may have gotten chilled. She is around 6 months old, and has just...

Today I found some bloody poop in my chicks brooder. I have 8 OEG bantams, one is six and a half weeks old and the others are four and a half weeks old. I dont know exactly which one it came from, and they all seem to be acting fine. They are eating and drinking normally. Is it coccidiosis, or...

My OEG Bantam chick is about four weeks old. I noticed today that she has been sleeping more, and closes her eyes a lot. Her eyes look swollen and a bit watery. But there is no mucous or drainage from the nose or eyes, and she is breathing normally to. When she is awake still acting somewhat...

I noticed today that one of my hens has a huge wound covered in maggots right under her vent. I washed it out, picked out all of the maggots, put peroxide on it, then put screw worm medication on it, after that I put some peroxide diluted in water on it and got some dead tissue away. lastly I...

I am hatching bantam chicks, 4 have hatched already and 2 have pipped. Some of the chicks that hatched are starting to pant, I have kept them in the incubator for about 9 or 10 hours. Should I take the chicks out now or do I have to wait for the pipped eggs to hatch?

I was hatching four bantam eggs in my incubator and only one hatched, she is only a day old now. I have started incubating more eggs but they wont hatch for another two weeks. What can I do for my chick to keep it from feeling lonely until the other chicks come? Could I make some toys for it to...

My bantam chick just hatched today at 8:00 am. She still acts tired and is not trying to walk around very much. She is learning to drink water and has drank a little bit already. When should she start eating? Also, she pooped but it was watery and green. Is any of this normal?

I have always used straw bedding in my coops, but the other day I read an article about the advantages of sand in the coop rather than straw. So now I am wondering if I should switch to sand bedding. What have all of your experiences been with sand bedding? Should I switch?

The scales on here feet have looked like this for a while, at first I thought it might be leg mites but none of my other chicken's legs look like this. The scales are just very thick and there is nothing under them that would be pushing them up. It also looks like she is growing some small...

My mom brought home two mourning dove eggs from her work. They were in a flower basket, so the other workers were just going to throw them out. So I candled them and they both have veins, I was worried that they wouldn't survive because it looked like the mother already started incubating them...

My baby chick is only about five days old and cant stand. I have been giving her electrolyte water to boost her energy. She seems a bit weak, does anyone know any good vitamins to help strengthen her and her legs, and where to get them?

My chick is about four or five days old, but she cant walk or stand. I have to give her water and food by hand because she wont eat or drink on her own. When she tries to stand she only lifts her back end, but she does not lift her front. At first i thought she had splay leg because she would...