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My hen dislocated her middle toe, the knuckle furthest from her body. Her skin was not broken, just swollen and warm where it popped out. We made a splint for her with cotton swabs and electrical tape. Today when I went to check on her, she had gotten the splint off and it was popped out again...

My girl Darla is having a hard time. When she breathes is appears to be difficult for her. She rocks back and forward when she breathes and the skin between her eyes and nose puffs up and down then she breathes. Once I saw that I examined her and noticed that her nose appears to be clogged. I...

I have been doing some research on deep litter method. While doing so I came across deep bedding method, and I am not understanding the difference. I understand that one is dry and one is moist. But the steps sound the same for both. Start with a few inches of pine shavings, stir every so often...

The end of December I notied Darla was limping. I went to check on her and I noticed she was missing two toe nails and was bleeding from them breaking off. We treated that and her nails are growing back! But to this day she still has a pretty bad limp. And when she does stand she tilts forward...

I have had Daisy seperated in a dog crate for a week now. She is unable to walk or stand and sits back on her legs. I dont see any bruising, feel any heat, her feet dont show any cuts and her tendon looks to be in place. She is eating and drinking well. Besides not walking, her health hasnt...

Hello!! I noticed my girl, Daisy, over a week ago sitting in the yard when we let the girls out to roam. But i didnt think anything of it, I thought she was just sun bathing and she still slept on the roost so it didnt strike me as odd. Well last friday i noticed one of the other girls chasing...

So my girls have a good amount of lice on them, and after trying all the home remedies i saw online, I finally purchased permethrin. I followed the directions, but now im so worried that the chemicals are going to hurt them. I bathed them in 5 gallons of water with 3.5 oz of permethrin. The...

If an oil of some sort is put on lice nits will it suffocate them when they hatch? My chickens have lice I am now realizing and I want to try the natural ways to treat them first. I read in other posts that Permethrin works best, and I plan to buy that in a few days if I dont see an improvement...

Hello, My Silkie (Olive) has some crust on her feathers around her mouth. I have checked her other ones and I cant find it anywhere else on her. Is it just fried on food? I have posted a picture. You have to zoom in on it to see it.

Hello, My Silkie (Olive) is having another broody spell, and when I take her out of the nesting box she acts like the is itchy. To the point where she can only take a step or two with out itching her self again. I checked her for mites or lice and didn't see anything crawling around. We put...

Hello my chicken people! Today we noticed that Silma (a 16 week old girl) has been super sluggish and hasnt moved much at all today. Yesterday she appeared to be normal. It has been in the mid 80s consistently now and nothing has changed food or water wise. I have checked on her a few times...

We just put our pullets into our coop with our two Silkie hens. When I moved them into the coop i put their food trough in there as well. And I just relized that i mixed the rest of their medicated chick food in with their milled cereal, and both Silkies have eaten from it! Can you still eat the...

This is the first summer our hens will be outside. And as it gets warmer I am afraid of getting mites, lice or anyother bugs that loves chickens just as much as we do! I have read some things on garlic or nesting box herbs. Do you guys have things you use that you feel keep your hens safe from...

We have two 8-9 month old silkies. They finally started laying eggs two ish months ago. For a month and a half straight we were getting two to three eggs a day. Both spent all day either in the run or out in our yard. It has been in the high 50s/ 60s. We noticed about four weeks ago that our...

I noticed that my 5 week old Lavender Orpington was smushed by the other chicks and developed splayed legs. I made a brace with a small rubberband and a drinking straw. I cut a small hunk of the straw and thredded it through to the middle of the rubbery so it formed two loops on either end for...

Two days ago we had a swedish flower hen pass away that was showing these same symptoms but and a much slower rate. They develooed over a two week time span. This little girl develiped them over night. Monday (3/29) i noticed Matilda was acting strange. She normally runs to me when I open the...

I have a four week old swedish flower hen. Two weeks ago i noticed she was not real active and was wobbly. So i seperated her so i could watch her. She was super wobbly and seemed to rock back and forward. A lady told me she may be having crop/ constipation issues and malnourished and to give...

Hello, Well it appears that we do not have good luck this round of chicks this spring. Below you will see a pic of the two Lavender Orpingtons we have. One I noticed yesterday not really moving. When i touched her to get her moving she just kind of roller around and could not get her feet under...

Hello! We got eight chicks four weeks ago and I noticed our two lavenders are not progressing like the others. The other 6 have gotten bigger all around and have started to grow feathers on their wings and breast. The Lavenders still look as if we brought them home with slightly thicker wings...

I have a 7 month old Silkie that has had matted poop on her behind for the past two weeks that goes from belpw the vent all the way down to her bottom feathers. And up until then I have never seen that before on her. I cleaned it all off a week ago and checked on her again and its back. I...