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I don’t know if this fits on this thread, but there wasn’t a category specifically for feather care/ grooming. My Silkie hen is 4 years old, going on 5 by next May. She’s perfectly healthy, but can’t seem to reach her vent to groom her butt. It’s to the point that she gets irritated by the...

My 3-4 year old hen, Rocky, has been having these issues for a long while. I thought it was a symptom of sour crop, so when I isolated her to reset her digestive system, she became more lively and a completely normal chicken. However, water, bits of food, and other stuff still spills from her...

From the last few posts, I have seen odd symptoms in my sapphire gem hen, Rocky. This morning, she was reluctant to come out of the coop. It looked like she is constantly trying to swallow something, and when I set her down to eat, a yellow fluid would dribble out of her beak when she would...

I’m thinking of raising meat rabbits, but I wouldn’t want any part of the body going to waste if I can help it. I also have pet chickens that are not picky when it comes to meaty foods. Can I throw the organs we normally wouldn’t eat to the flock? Would raw be fine, or would it be better if I...

I remember hearing that gurgling in a chicken’s breathing means that something is wrong with the lungs, but I can’t be sure whether or not it is something serious. It doesn’t sound like gurgling coming from her breathing, and instead a noise similar to the gut digesting food. She is the only one...

I thought I knew what was wrong with Rocky, and found a solution, but she doesn’t seem to be getting better. I suspect that she has sour crop, and just needs a lot more attention, but I’ve never seen these symptoms that she’s showing. -A brown/orangish fluid leaks out of her beak whenever she...

Rocky, my 3 year old blue rock hen, has shown very worrying signs recently. Her comb is floppy and pale on the edges, she is lethargic, her tail is down, and she is hiding. Before, I found her drinking mass amounts of water, looking very pale and ill. When I forced her to purge the contents of...

There’s been a boom in the cat population of my neighborhood. They’re becoming more abundant, which is either from the lack of spaying and neutering, or people letting their cats wander outside. This is potentially bad not only for my chickens, but also the cats in question, as they get hurt...

My 2 year old barred rock hen won’t put any weight on one of her legs. I first noticed just 30 minutes ago when I went out to see my girls, and I saw that she was laying down. I felt her leg and foot, but I didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary, but at the same time, I don’t know what...

A couple days ago, I made a mash of leftover eggs with no carton, cream of wheat, corn grit, and what was left of baby parrot food that needed to be either thrown away or eaten. It was a big hit with the girls, especially my silkies. This is the recipe for it, in case you want to make a simple...

My silkie cross has a broken pin feather that came out after I gently pulled on it. I barely even gripped it while I was trying to see how rooted into her foot it was, and felt really bad when I thought I hurt her. She bled quite a bit from that, and I got a wet paper towel to clean it up a...

I just caught a hawk spying on my chickens. I think it’s a red-tail hawk, but I can’t be sure. It doesn’t matter, it’s big enough to kill my biggest hen, and could easily kill my silkies. My chickens free range the entire yard, and have a small coop that they only really go into at night. The...

From left to right: Shadow: silkie Levi: silkie/blue rock cross Rocky: blue Plymouth Rock (sapphire gem) Olive: barred rock It’s rare for them to all tolerate each other enough to sleep in the same big nest lol

I’m thinking on growing a paradise rose bush in my backyard, but I’m unsure if it would be safe with my chickens, and the other way around. None of them are plant-eaters aside from eating grass and weeds in the yard, and they won’t go out of their way to try to get into the vegetable garden. I’m...

My boy, Blue, is a 2-3 year old blue silkie rooster. He has scissor beak, so he has special needs when it comes to feeding. In the morning, once he’s been let out of his nightly kennel-carrier, I let him run around and socialize with the girls of the flock. About 10-20 minutes later, once he’s...

When I asked to see what would be a good food to help my VERY underweight roo put on some weight (the vet’s measurements said that he was only 50-60 ounces in weight, and since he’s gotten better from what was ailing him, I’m working on putting some weight on him), someone said that raw egg yolk...

Ever since my roo, Blue, got what I believe to be sour crop, he’s stopped eating and drinking by himself, and will usually stay hunched up and watching the girls. He is painfully thin, his keel bone sticks out to where I can’t feel anything but bone, and I can’t feel any muscle on him, just...

My rooster recently got sour crop (I highly believe). People are recommending Miconazole or Monistat cream (vaginal cream for yeast infections). My mom has it, but she thinks it could actually kill him instead of helping his sour crop. The tube we have says to not ingest orally or use on the...

I’m not sure if this would be considered an emergency or illness, but I am starting to feel concerned about it. My roo, Blue, who might as well be considered a regular topic on my forum posts, has had a full crop for a couple/few days now. Whenever I let him out of his night time kennel to go...

I recently got two bags of chicken feed, one all-flock, and the other, flock raiser. I got them for Blue since it’s much better for him than the usual canned fruits and veggies he’s had for a long time. He’s roughly one and a half, maybe two years old, and has scissor beak. He also recently got...