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My 4-year-old Columbian Wyandotte hen has been having this weird scaliness on her feet. It's gotten to the point where she's got like weird growths, like she's growing extra toes. It doesn't seem to bother her too much, but she always has kind of a limp due to an old hip injury so it's hard to...

Last week, I got an approximately 1 month old Olive Egger chick from a local feed store. She seemed healthy when I got her, strong lungs (she screamed about half of the way home). But on Saturday, 5 days after I brought her home, she began to develop respiratory symptoms: wheezing and sneezing...

This morning at chicken wakeup, my 2 1/2 year old Barred Rock hen went straight to the water and wouldn't stop drinking. I tried to encourage her to eat feed, but she showed no interest. She did eat some birdseed though. I have not seen her poop this morning but my mom, who cleaned the coop...

My oldest hen has been throwing soft shells for the past couple weeks. I suspect it's because of a deficiency of calcium in her diet. My flock is currently on chick feed because we have a few youngsters in the crowd. The three older pullets are almost laying age so I'd feel comfortable switching...

This morning at wakeup, we noticed that our 4 year old Easter Egger, Esther, was acting abnormally. She was fluffed up and quieter and moving slower than usual. Then I noticed she was trying to void but she squawked like she was in pain and I saw a clear liquid, like an egg yolk, dangling out of...

Last winter, a rooster went after my 4-year-old Easter Egger hen and messed up the feathers on her back and wings. Now that it's summer, she appears to be getting sunburn on the exposed skin of her wings. It doesn't seem to be affecting her too much (she's been having a good crop every night and...

I fell in love with chickens after I started working with my college farm's layer and meat flocks. Currently I help my mom take care of our flock of 14 chickens. Our flock currently consists of 2 roosters, 6 hens, 3 pullets, and a 3 day old chick. They have a nice coop and run. Unfortunately...