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hi! one of my chickens was limping this morning and after examination we saw a little blood on her leg. it doesn’t seem to be injured on the outside enough for her to be limping so much. is there another problem?

we have had chickens for three years and recently got new chicks. we lost two chickens last night, the first ones we have ever lost during our time keeping chickens. we found one chicken dead in the middle of the run and one is missing. there are digging marks around the run but none were deep...

hi! yesterday we got five baby chicks and they are between 1 and 5 days old we think. all of them have been acting normally with good poops etc but one of the chicks (a silver wyandotte) has been inactive and acting a little funny. she will move a little with her eyes closed and stops for...

Hi! I am getting some more chicks next month and I would like to brood them outside to hopefully stop integration problems. I live in Maryland and in June our temperatures rarely get below 60. I have seen heating pads and caves made for people to brood chicks outside, but this has been in the...

Hi. We just lost our first chicken. 🥺 We now have three hens left. two easter eggers and a delaware. they are all three years old and they were raised together. we have enough room in our coop/run for eight birds and we were hoping to get more. we have tried to add birds in the past but we...

Hi! I have four gorgeous chickens normally who turned two this summer. They *kinda* molted last year in mid november. I live in Maryland and this year all my chickens started molting at the end of september. they look terrible right now- here is a pic of one from a few days ago. she has lost...

Hey! My two year old Delaware hen has been laying extremely weird eggs lately. I have found smashed eggs in the coop with other eggs untouched that are in the same box. The egg shells are super thin and break almost upon contact. I always make sure they have oyster shells and they have feed...

-warning very gross- hi! I noticed that my chickens had very poopy butts. they have been getting a few extra fruit treats lately so there poops have been a lot runn ier. anyway when I was bathing them today I saw that one of my chickens butts looked like this. pretty sure that’s not...

hello! two of my chickens have very poopy butts. does anyone have tips on how to clean them? these two chickens are suuuuper wiggly and i’ve tried wiping them off but have not been able to clean them up. thanks!

hello! my two and a half year old bcm and delaware hens stopped laying recently. the bcm hasn’t been laying for a while but we didn’t realize that our delaware wasn’t laying until this week bc we had two other hens who layed similar eggs. the bcm i posted about previously and people told me she...

hello! I have a two year old bcm hen. she has not been laying recently but I didn’t think anything of it because she has always been a bad layer. two days ago i noticed that her comb is purple floppy and I am wondering what is wrong. her activity has been weird lately too. she often stands stock...

hi! my almost two years old bcm has a floppy comb that is also a weird color. is she ok? what should i do? usually her comb stands up.

Hi! I have had bullying problems for a while now and my family and I have decided that it’s time that we give two of our chickens away before they get worse. They are two austrolorpes and they are great layers. They are one and a half years old. I was wondering where I should post to try to give...

Hey! I really need someone to take these two hens for me. They are 1 and a half years old and they are both black austrolorpes. Ever since spring they have been bullied non stop and we have not been able to stop it. They currently are missing feathers from their back. They were beautiful when...

hi! this is a kind of complicated story so sorry in advance. I also have two issues here that I need help with. I have six chickens. 4 are two years old and were raised together as day old chicks. they are 2 easter eggers a bcm and a delaware. about six months later we introduced two more who...

Hello, I have a chicken who has been broody for a Looooooong time now. She was first broody for three weeks in early spring and we were able to break it by isolating her. Now she is broody again, and has been for almost two months. She is about a year old and is an EE. I tried to break her...

Hello! I have a a chicken bullying issue for a while now, and I was hoping that the pecking order would get sorted out so I left it alone for a while. My chicken is an 8 month old austrolorp (I think) and she is the smallest in her flock. She has a sister who she grew up with who is also 8...

Hello! I have six hens, 2 Easter egged, 1 BCM, 1 Delaware and 2 austtolorps. The austrolorps are about 5 months younger than the other who are about a year old. They all lay regularly. One of the austrolorps who is the smallest in the flock is often picked on by the other flock members and...

Hi all! I have two Ameraucana(??) hens who are about 9 months old and they sit in the nesting boxes ALL DAY on top of some golf balls and existing eggs. This morning gene we moved them out of the boxes they just sat down and still wouldn’t move. Is there something wrong with them, or is this...

Hi!! I have two little pullets who are 19 weeks old. They were sold to me as barred Plymouth rocks from TSC and they are obviously not barred. any idea what breed they are? Thanks in advance!! (They won’t hold still for more than 3 seconds so sorry for the bad pictures)