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Hello again, In addition to my sick Wyandotte, I have a 5yo Australorp hen who, a couple months ago, seemed to get off-balance and started tipping on to her side. She will get up and precariously walk a few feet, then one of her legs will give out and she’ll fall over again. I have tried to...

Hi, I have a 2yo golden laced Wyandotte that today started acting off. She’s walking stiffly with a wide stance, and keeps squatting down and trying to push something out her vent. I already stuck a finger up there and felt no blockages or eggs. At one point when she put her neck down to eat, a...

Around august of last year, one of our BOs who’s about 7 years old now got a big wound on her chest. We don’t know how it happened and it was already covered by a big bulky scab by the time we found it. It smelled infected and we gave her antibiotic injections for awhile, and she seemed to be...

Hi, I’ve been treating one of my speckled sussexes for scaly leg mites for several months now but they just keep coming back, and she’s eating and perky looking but doesn’t like to move. She just stands around in the coop most of the time, and when she moves, it’s this weird run where she picks...

Yesterday my 6yo BO, who is normally very active and vibrant, was looking off. I gave her an exam today and it appears she has a teardrop-shaped scab and bloody feathers on her underside that’s about an inch or two in diameter. I don’t know what caused the puncture- it doesn’t look like it’s...

I’ve been artificially stratifying a bunch of native plant seeds in my fridge for a couple of weeks in paper towels in plastic bags. There isn’t much room in the fridge, so I stacked the bags on top of one another. I cut holes in the side of them and left the tops of the bags open, yet when I...

Today I noticed that the wattles on my 4 yo Polish hen Misty have turned blue and look really saggy. She is acting completely normal otherwise, and is eating, drinking, running around and digging with everyone else. A lot of our girls are molting right now, but Misty is not really at the...

This past weekend we got 6 pullets. 2 Wyandottes (1 silver 1 gold), 2 BOs, and two Barred Rocks. I’ve been struggling to come up with names for them. Anyone have any ideas? Photos are down below👇

For the past week or two, it has been very humid and rainy. My dad dumped the clippings from his lawnmower into the run of our 12-16 week old pullets, which they devoured before I could take them out. Several hours later, one of our brahmas started seeming off and was worse the past two days...

My chicken Jazzy has always had problems-she’s the slowest, sits around during free range time, and did this weird thing where she opened and closed one eye while lifting her head backward and walking backward on her haunches. Recently, she’s been very weak and is walking on her haunches if she...

Hey all. This morning I went to go check on the chickens and I found Jazzy, my 2 1/2 year old black australorp behaving weirdly. She was in the corner, sitting on her haunches, blinking one eye and clicking her beak together really fast. Jazzy has always been a bit strange; she used to do this...

Hello all! Now that it is springtime, I’ve been wanting to plant some wildflower seeds in our old garden beds that are overgrown and need some TLC. I tried to do this last year, and spent hours in the hot sun toiling, making the garden livable for plants. However, this work attracted some...

Hello everyone! Recently I have been struggling with an expanding number of egg eating chickens in the flock. At least two eggs are eaten everyday, and most of the chickens have a taste for eggs. A while ago, I tried filling an eggshell with mustard and giving it to them; they just gobbled it up...

Hello! I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me figure out what is going on with one of my girls, Reynard. She is about 3-4 years old, and seems highly hormonal. Recently she has been acting weird: being less social, active, and friendly to humans. She seems to have no physical...

Hello all! Virginia weather this winter has been all over the place, and for a while, there was a period of warm, springlike weather. Animals were mating and flowers were blooming, so I suppose that my chooks were tricked into believing that spring was here early. One of them, Rainy, decided to...

Hey! My name is Layla. I’ve been a chicken momma for about five years now, and I’ve been on BYC for a short time already, but I never properly introduced myself because I’m usually only on BYC to ask about my sick chickens. Unfortunately, one of my hens is sick right now. If anyone has any...

So our hen Jazzy has just started looking sick today. She has this weird thing where it looks like she’s pecking at the air and closing her left eye every time she does it. She does it constantly; it’s like she can’t stop. We have one other hen in our flock with a limp neck and one that just...

A couple of days ago our chicken Fluffy was looking odd. She waddled a bit but was eating her food and water with vigor. Eyes looked bright and comb looked red. The only problem was that she couldn’t run very fast and had to take frequent breaks. I thought it might of been a cardiovascular...