She was limping on Thursday so I took her to the vet. She was examined, had an x-ray, no broken bones and suspected muscle injury so painkillers were prescribed. On Friday, she was outdoors free ranging when a fox came into the garden suddenly. We scared the fox away but she had ran on the bad...
On Thursday I found her limping around, I had no idea what happened she's one of my most healthiest hen's and has never had problems before although she is turning 5 and has slowed down a bit this year.
I took her to the vet asap, they did an x-ray, nothing was broken. They determined it was a...
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We have a young bantam rooster, he is at the botttom of the pecking order and much smaller than his brother who is head of the flock. He acts submissive around the other chickens and we've noticed that everytime he jumps and lands, he will make squeaky noises. I feel like his feet are...
Hey everyone! I'm currently looking after three 7 week old pekin chicks. Around 5 days ago, I noticed solid poops having a very faint red colour leaking on the tissues that I placed around the brooder. There's only two chicks who perch on the sides of the brooder who could poop on these tissues...
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I recently made a thread about some eggs I was incubating and because they had detached air cells: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/detached-air-cells.1303951/
Egg number 2 and 3 have hatched now. 2 Looks like it didn't absorb all of its yolk and when it hatched some gooey...
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I recently bought 6 eggs and due to infertility I had to throw 2 out. Right now it's day 15 and egg number 2 doesn't have signs of movement, 3 and 6 do have movement although they look quite detached. 4 looks like a late quitter and I don't think it will hatch. I have a Brinsea mini II...
Hi all, I have a 7 month old bantam frizzle and one of the growing pin feathers from her tail feather area has a clump of pinkish blood. I need help about what to do. I only noticed the blood feather an hour ago and her behaviour seems normal, she's foraging and pecking around. But when I try to...
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I've recently purchased three frizzle chicks, they're about 3.5 weeks old right now! As they're getting older, they've all started displaying fairly cockerel-like behaviour, e.g. they end fighting with each other more so now, they really like to fly at every opportunity, and just...
In only a few days my female budgie's cere has changed colour on her right side. It was originally a dark pink/brownish cere (a little bit crusty). Now it is a very smooth pale blue cere with white on the edges, as you can see in these pictures:
Her other symptoms are that she has been...