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A fox unfortunately got into our chicken coop on Thursday night and killed 8 of our chickens and injured one. We took the injured one inside and just sprayed the main wound with antiseptic, however we didn’t find its puncture wounds till several days later and they had already mostly scabbed...

Hello, I have 9 week old chicks and last week I noticed one of the buff orpington’s eyes was bulging out, and there was a hard lump around it.. it has stretched the skin tight around the eye so that some of the membrane around the eye can be seen and this eye looks much larger than the other...

I am trying to figure out if this 8 week old Barred Rock is a hen or a rooster. It is supposed to be a hen as it was sexed at birth, but I know sometimes the hatcheries make mistakes, and this one has a larger and redder comb and waddles than my other two Barred rocks. I hope it's not a rooster...

we are suppsoed to be getting a few new baby chicks tomorrow, but we already have some chicks in a swimming pool brooder. The new chicks will be going in the swimming pool along with the chicks we have now so I want to disinfect the brooder first before they come, so they don't get infected from...

Hello all! I am a newbie to raising chickens and also to BYC!:) We just got our first chicks last Wednesday and are loving them so far!! We got 7 chicks: 3 buff orpingtons, 2 Barred Rocks, 1 Golden Laced Wyandotte, and 1 black australorp! Sadly one of the buff orps and one of the barred rocks...

A couple days ago we noticed that one of our buff Orpington chicks was sleeping a lot more than the rest of the chicks and didn't seem to have as much energy. While the other chicks would be running around, this one would just be on its own sleeping. Yesterday she seemed to have more energy...