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Is this bumble foot? If so what can I do for her?

Thinking most of these are roosters, unsure about the Cochin mix with the fuzzy feet. They were hatched out in late April.

I hatched out 11 mixed breed chickens, they are now 5 weeks old and I’m trying to figure out how many potential roosters I have. I would love opinions especially on the naked neck.

Hello, I have 6 chickens in an insulated coop. Ventilated and draft free. It is -9 F, or -22 c without windchill. With the windchill is -42 f, right now and the temp in my coop 5 degrees. All the breeds are cold hardy, however I have one who doesn’t roost with the others. She’s a Cochin and I’m...

These guys are just over 5 weeks old according to the hatchery. I’m in eastern iowa and the low here at night is 48. They appear to be pretty fully feathered I’m wondering if they still need a heat source in the coop or if they will be okay without one. My coop is insulated slightly and not very...

Hi I have about 15 chicks I moved to the coop with a heat lamp two nights ago. Tonight the third night I found one unexpectedly dead. The coop is insulated with little draft and the temperature reads 90 under the heat lamp. They have plenty of room to roam to where it is not that hot. No one is...

Hi all, My chickens were just at egg laying age as a natural disaster hit my area. I live in the midwest and the derecho took out my chicken coop. No chickens were harmed luckily though! Anyways it's been 10 weeks since the storm and 7 weeks since I've built a new chicken coop. They are still...

Sorry for the low quality pictures, I had a hard time getting them to stay still. They are about 3 months old? Buff Orpington, pretty sure a roo, has curled tail feathers. Chicken 2 Chicken 3

I have a few chickens which are being attacked pretty brutally by buffalo flies. I’ve tried all the obvious, I have vanilla i spray on them night and day as well as a fan running in their run. I also have DE in their dust bath and have dusted them with it. The gnats just don’t seem to stop...

I have a 1 year old black austrolorp who pooped bloody poo two days ago. I immediately started her on 1.5 tsp corid/1 gallon of water. Last night she still has bloody poop. She hasn't been laying recently and is still eating and drinking but has lost some mass. I'm worried for her and I'm having...

I'm hoping to gather a lot of information, thoughts and opinions on this. I'm designing a new run for my set up and see a large mix of what people use. So far I've gather: Chicken wire- cheapest option, weakest option should be used to keep chickens in not things out. Welded wire- cheaper...

She’s a black austrolorp under a year old. My whole crew had been seeming a little less active when weather drastically changed here (50s-90s) so I wormed everyone and all my hens have perked back up besides my black austrolorp. She hangs with everyone but the past 3 nights her crop has barely...

I'm just graduating college and I'm looking for a job in sustainability, not really 100% sure on what I want to do. Anyways I want to include backyard chicken keeping on my resume because it's a big part of what I like to do but I'm not quite sure how to do it. The original format of my resume...

Hi! I've read a lot about tube feeding chickens and I decided that it was best for my hen to start tube feeding her. I've read through the tube feeding journey thread and many others but I still have a couple of questions. -My hen is a buff orpington, she weighed over 8 lbs and now since she's...

So I have a hen, Lucy, a 1 yo buff Orpington, who mostly likely had an egg crack inside her. She got very sick and weak. I had to use antibiotics and tube feed her back to health. This started last Thursday, Friday was her at her worst (that afternoon we started antibiotics) and today she is...

So this morning I posted thinking my hen was egg bound. She's a buff orpington, a little over a year old. She's been acting strange, this morning she was very lethargic. Thinking she was egg bound I've been giving her baths, yogurt, tums, etc. to try and help get the egg out. Anyways I went to...

So my buff orpington hen is showing signs of egg bound. She's very lethargic, won't hardly eat or drink, hasn't pooped, and is sitting in a squatting position. However I cannot locate the egg, I'm new to chickens and never had an egg bound egg before. Not sure if that's even what it is, I just...

The first three images are her tonight, the other three are previous pictures. I'm wondering if another hen could have pecked at her eye? It's been pretty cold here so everyone has been staying in(although they have access outside) for the past couple of days. I'm assuming out of boredom? Or I'm...

I got my hen from hoovers hatchery last summer, she was suppose to be a cinnamon queen but she doesn't look anything like one. I love her anyways, I'm just curious about what breed she could be. It was hard to get a picture of her by herself but she is the orange colored one.

Third times the charm this week I guess. It's been about -20F here for the past week and won't let up for another week. Yesterday I noticed some of my girls sneezing in the coop. A little nasally when they sneeze but they are all breathing, eating, and drinking fine. All their eyes are clear...