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Today was a hard day. My beautiful girl Toasty very sadly had to be euthanized after several tumours were discovered during what should have been a fairly simple operation. I am absolutely heartbroken, and thought I would post here to share her memory. She was still so young, turning three in...

Our ~ 8 year old RIR has developed a lump over her eye during her moult. We noticed it yesterday and got a picture of it today (attached) and put some betadine on it, but we aren’t sure what it is. It isn’t squishy and doesn’t appear to have any opening or wound, and none of our other chickens...

Hiya, Aussie chicken keeper here, I was looking for advice on filling in a big ugly dirt patch in my run with some lovely plants. My run has three sections, they all have dirt and sand substrate, but only one section has plants. I would like to fill another of the sections with some more plants...

One of our girls has left us soft eggs over the last two weeks, and despite adding a few drops of calcium to their water and giving them food with shell grit, her shells are consistently thin and/or not there (although I suspect not much of the calcium from the water actually went in their...

A few weeks ago I noticed some bald patches around my chickens head and one on her neck, and I initially thought she might be going into her first moult (for context we are coming out of winter and she is almost 2 years old) however I don’t believe it is moulting as so far it has been a couple...

our old RIR has been malting recently and one of our younger chickens, (only one that we have seen) has been attacking her and plucking out her new feathers. We are wondering if we can put antiseptic on her wounds and if we can prevent the attacks any way other than separation, as she is old and...

We got three new bundles of joy, two red sex links and an australorp, at 16 weeks old, and despite some health complications in the beginning, we expected eggs fairly soon after getting them. Fast forward to now, 18 weeks later, we still have no eggs. The weather has been warm but not boiling...

My old RIR has had a deformity in her feet since we got her from a friend. She is still the biggest and strongest hen, so it seems it doesn't give her any pain or weakness. I have attached photos, but they're not very good because she is so aggressive I can only get near her at night. I was...

Is it ok to clip a chickens claws? One of my chickens loves crawling all over anyone she meets and we've all got more than a few scratches from her trying to clamber on top of us, so I was wondering if there's a way to reduce that. If not, I guess love comes at a cost :)

While staying in the house due to a suspected leg deformity, one of my pullets has become VERY attached to me, following me around, begging for attention and hiding under me when she gets scared... While this is adorable right now, I was wondering if anyone had any tips that might make it...

I got some new chickens and two of the pulleys I got were in a cage labelled 3/4 leghorns and 3/4 australorps but to be honest they don't really look like either of those. To me they look more like cinnamon Queens... was hoping to get a slightly more expert opinion from some more experienced...

I am in the process of introducing three pullets to an established flock of two, one of whom is a very submissive turken and was picked on even when we had three and the other who is a VERY dominant RIR and quite aggressive. Two of the three pullets were introduced fairly successfully, they...

i have a 14 week Australorp staying in a hospital cage at the moment and she's become quite attached to me. She will often try to sit under me, and i will usually end up cuddling and petting her. Until recently though, she was very wary of any people trying to touch her and would screech and run...

hi, I'm a chicken flock owner from Perth, Western Australia. With recent additions to my (admittedly puny) flock, I now have one Transylvanian Naked Neck, one (large) Rhode Island Red who is the leader of our flock, one Australorp pullet and two dappled leghorn pullets. I have kept chickens for...

Yesterday I brought three new pulleys into my small flock, two of them are doing just fine, however the smallest one Missy, which is a 14 week 3/4 Australorp seems to be having some trouble - she is having difficulty standing up, refuses to scratch even if she is standing and often open mouth...