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4 1/2 year old hen less active, waddling, and just sitting down away from other hens. Picked her up and her abdomen is grossly swollen. She has had chronic diarrhea for a while, nasty butt feathers. Soaked her in Epsom salts, cleaned off all the crusty poop. Her color is good. Her vent is...

We do watch the broodies closely. I was surprised she sat as long as she did, she’s a flighty, Mediterranean class breed. After looking at the baby more closely and searching some Threads on here, I could be a genetic issue, looks like the pics of chicks hatched with what was described as an...

We have a bad first time broody. She was not sure what to do with her new baby, and after a day of the poor thing staying hidden under her in fear of being pecked if the hen actually saw her, we gave the baby to another broody who happily accepted it into her family. Back to bad broody. She...

Had a broody hen hatch out eggs 4 days ago. Hadn’t noticed lice or mites this spring, but we just noticed the babies have tiny brown bugs crawling around on their heads. What can we do, they’re only 4 days old? We plan to do spring coop cleaning and dust all the adult areas tomorrow, but what is...

I have a year old broody. It think it’s been about 3 weeks now and she is still determined to sit, on nothing. A friend offered me some native pheasant eggs that we could then release the grown chicks to the wild. We can’t have any more full time chickens in our setup. Would it be bad for her...

Her right leg is turned in in one photo—is that unusual for her? I would hold off on splinting the wing. No, that was just how she was standing as she had started to turn around and never finished. For the shell-less broken egg, I would give her some human calcium tablets—1/2 tablet daily, or...

This afternoon, the kids found one of our young hens hanging by herself in the fenced run, while the others were out free ranging. (She had been out with them all day.) One of her wings is drooped down much lower than the other. When I gently palpate the wing/shoulder joints, I don’t notice any...

She’s settled in fine now. She just is a bit shy, but does eat, drink and poop now.

It’s almost 4 weeks old. The other two are 1 week and and 4 weeks. I got them from a local breeder, so no shipping. She won’t eat or drink. Not sure about poop. She backs away from you when you try to feed her by hand or drop water on the beak. She seems terrified and just sleepy. I hope she’s...

I just brought a new chick home from the same batch of chicks as one of the ones we have. They’re probably about 4 weeks old. But it just wants to sit on the mama heating pad, or wherever we put her. She appeared active before we brought her home. She sat on my daughter’s shoulder the whole way...

Oh boy, I’m not sure I have all those things on hand. She’s getting to where she can hardly stand. It’s pitiful. I have liquid b12, calcium and d3 (for people) but not the others. How do you figure dosage?i don’t want to give her too much.

i have a 4 week old serema chick who is struggling. Her body is constantly wobbling, swaying, in almost a circular pattern, and when she walks, she has a difficult time balancing. She is eating, and I have been trying to give vitamins/electrolytes/probiotics with a dropper, but she does drink in...

Tofu is a staple in my kitchen. Love that stuff. But never thought of feeding it to the chicks. I had a pullet last year that was always half or less the size of her hatchmates. I thought sh wasn't going to make it, but she finally laid her first egg yesterday, at 12 months age. Now I have a...

I didn’t have time to order something different. But the babies love the mama heating pad/feather duster combo. They sit on top of the heating pad under the duster where it’s cozy.

I have a mama heating pad, but was considering the heat plate. Is it worth the extra cost? I know the mama heating pad is a little tricky to regulate temp. And adjusting the height was a bit laborious last year.

The swelling looked better today, but I had to bring her in tonight because when I went out to check on them before lock down, I notice blood splattered all over the place. She either scraped her blackened, damaged comb tips on something, or a curious flock mate pecked her comb and it is...

We have had some very cold nights. Our coop is dry and relatively draft free, accommodating ventilation needs. A few of our hens have frostbite on their wattles from dipping into the water bowl to drink. Today I noticed one of them, who seemed to have it worse than the others, has swelling...

She’s much better now. Put her back out with the flock today and she went to roost fine this evening. Still a slight limp, but way stronger. Hopefully it was just the leg and not reproductive issues.

I took her out to the run with the others in the dog crate after it warmed up a bit. When I checked on her a bit ago, she was up on her feet and had spilled her water. So I let her out and observed how the others would treat her, and there weren’t the same issues as yesterday. Then, after a bit...