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I have a couple chickens passing large roundworms in their poop. Half of my flock is molting, so while I do not want to wait to treat the birds, I also don't want to use either fenbendazole or valbazen and risk harming feather growth (yes, I realize valbazen may or may not affect feathers). I...

You really need to be careful when your You need to be careful when your rooster is that much larger than your hens. My rooster was the same way and I let him stick around for a while. I checked my girls every day for a few weeks to make sure that it wasn't getting any worse than bare patches...

Here are some pics: only symptom is the blindness

My girl was about 40 weeks when the blindness started, and it has been a couple weeks now that she is blind. I just don't know if I should cull her since (1) I'm assuming everyone else is already exposed and (2) she eats, drinks, walks, and roosts normally. She does get distressed when free...

It doesn't matter how you put them down, they are going to twitch after they die. It is a physiological result of activity going on in the nervous and muscle cells after death. Just know that although it is disturbing to watch, the bird feels absolutely nothing.

Howdy! I suspect one of my hen's has the ocular strain of Marek's disease. She has been exhibiting signs of blindness for the last two weeks, and her pupils and irises are extremely not normal. My question is do I cull her or let her be? I have a new shipment of chicks coming today who...