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Found it today, never seen an egg so deformed with a hard shell like this one. Is this normal to happen from time to time?

This is the second chicken I have with this problem is about 2 or 3 weeks. Posted on the first one here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/update-please-help-me.1359335/ Sadly she is now gone. Yesterday I noticed another chicken all fluffed up, separated her and found out she layed 2...

ok, so after this topic here, I thought this was Marek, already called the veterinary and he is supposed to stop by to cull her: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-is-wrong-with-my-chicken.1357480/ BUT just now I went to the cage and to my surprise the chicken was standing up (but...

This chicken always was in my top 2 most active of a flock of 13 hens. For about 2 weeks she is not behaving like usual and sometimes I find her almost sleeping during day time and feathers puffed up. Not normal. I already de wormed the flock last week and she seemed to have recovered but...

what should I do? my chickens are now growing their new feathers back but I noticed that on a couple of chickens, sometimes I see some blood. I only noticed this on their backs, near the tail. the blood disappeared for some days but today I saw blood again. what should I do? another question...

just saw this chicken has a very swollen foot. what is wrong with it and what should I do?

Just found this egg. Should I be worried and try to locate the hen? If so, what do you suggest? Do you think I can see a bloody butt also? In the meantime will try to find more about this problem. Regards

video below. bought some chickens a week ago, from time to time I heard what sounded like a sneeze or cough but was not able to figure out which chicken did it. Today I found this one like this, already isolated it from the others. the coop is well ventilated and it has wood shavings on it...

well, bought some new chickens and one of them has the top half beak crossing with the below hald beak (if this makes sense), like the lower half section is too big so the top went to the side. is this of concern? what should I do? cut the lower half so she can close the beak without having it...

winter is here so I have plenty of mushrooms growing up everywhere due to lots of humidity. Since I do not know how to recognize a safe mushrooms to eat I though I should take some pictures to show them here. Can my flock go safe and eat these if they feel like it?

so, I initially had 3 chickens and unfortunately, 2 of them are gone. I want to add more, what do you think the behavior of the remaining chicken be if I introduce, lets say 6 or 7 chickens all at once? cheers

Hello to all, This is my first post here but I have been reading the forum for a few months already, mainly topics related with advice for new chicken owners like me. so, I am in trouble to post here. I have bought 3 black australorp hens maybe 2 months ago, they were about 5 months old, they...