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It's really perplexing me because she doesn't seem in pain and her feet are not "angry", but she is pulling her feet up a lot. Again, not avoiding putting them down and putting weight on them, just pulling them up. She curls her toes when they come up. How I have a different thought about what...

Thanks for the advice. If I go with the supplementation route, now much should I give every day? i.e., This morning I gave them a can of sardines (in water, drained). I have 6 chickens, so each got 2/3 of a sardine. I fed each one to make sure that there wasn't any bullying going on. Is that...

My girls are 18 months old and going through their first annual big molt. This is my first time too. Is there anything I should be doing differently? I heard I should give them more protein, handle them less, make sure they are not stressed. Am I missing anything? How much more protein? Are...

Hi! After turning cold (we live in Massachusetts), in the last couple of weeks, I noticed that one of my chickens started to develop redness between her toes. Nothing too dramatic, just pinker/darker than usual. No swelling, no lesions, no scale, no apparent parasites. Definitely not bumblefoot...

Thanks everyone. I'll get rid of it.

It's regular insulation.

Thanks. I can see them eating it.

Hi! I'm new to chickens, mine are about 5 months old. I just scored a coop from a neighbor, who doesn't have chickens anymore. It's a nice coop, 8x10 ft2, with some bells and whistles, well ventilated, etc. He is handy and built it himself years ago. The walls are insulated and covered in...

I was wondering about taking time for the swelling going down. These are my first chickens so I don't have a sense of healing time. I was even thinking that perhaps the ointment was causing more dirt to adhere or maybe she scratched it more, though I never noticed her scratching obsessively...

No it is not bad. Never was bad. The first photo posted is how it looked at it's worst. And there was never any discharge nor could I detect a respiratory infection. But it just have not gotten back to normal. As for application, I had to leave town and a neighbor who has experience with...

My 4 month old Dominique has a swollen eye. It began very gradually with just a slight color change in the skin around the eye. This was about 4-4.5 weeks ago. The change was so gradual that I initially attributed it to her growing up and the skin around her face reddening. Then 3 weeks ago the...