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A Delaware hen first had issues with dirty skirts. I gave her a bit of nutri drench and she perked up and the skirts began to clear up. Then she started to look sick, just sitting while the other hens were pecking around the yard. I picked her up and was startled to feel the distended abdomed. I...

We started an 8 x 8 chicken coop but we are too busy to finish it and we are knuckleheads as far as building goes. So we have hired our handy man to build it but are having trouble.... What we want: something very open with mostly hardware cloth walls and floor. ... What we have built so far: a...

The chicks are about 4 or 5 weeks old. The breed with a problem are the Delawares. One chick is the go to victim for picking and ultimately eating skin. There is a little picking here and there on the others. The Silver Wyandottes seem neither to pick or be picked. What happens is the food chick...

I'm trying to deter manure eating dogs - chicken, duck, horse. It's tiring to have to go around sprinkling everything with cayenne pepper. Has anyone experimented with nutritional alternatives with any success? I've had some success with increasing bone meal or protein (dogs are fed homemade...

My good old rooster passed away so I hatched out a bunch of his eggs hoping for a rooster. I got 4. Now these fellows are quite fantastic. They are not aggressive. They get along with each other. They are pretty good to my few hens. Most astonishing, though, is that their spurs do not seem to be...

Are there any problems using a small rooster for our full sized hens? Our excellent rooster passed away. We are casually looking for a replacement. Our good rooster was very intelligent, never aggressive, somewhat small and of unknown or mixed breed since he adopted us and he produced high...

Symptoms: slow decline. Chickens get slowly weaker and weaker. Some limping which throws me off. Sometimes messy drainage on anal feathers. The rooster got very pale in the wattles and legs at the end but the hens seemed to retain their color. They all rally when I do something for them - give...

What experience do people have? I wanted to order some miniature (bantam) Silver Appleyards but I can only buy the large ones locally. I do not want any drakes (maybe one). Do they sex ducklings like they do chicks? The last time I hatched out duck eggs (Pekins) I had 5 males and one female...

My Pekin female went broody and did not eat much and then she got sick. Black specks on bill, ruffled and standing up feathers and now she has difficulty breathing and will not eat anything but whole corn. I never did feed the ducks prepared food except Layena mixed in with whole corn but am now...

Hi, I have a creme colored chick. The color is curious so I am going to post photos. In this photo with her step mom she/he looks white but is really an iridescent ivory or creme. The mother is an Ameraucana (not shown) and the father a rooster who adopted us. His chicks are all a bit small but...

One of my Barr Rocks has been waddling around and her belly is quite swollen. It's soft. I noticed it yesterday and it's bigger today. I remember seeing some interesting suggestions years ago. Can I do something other than take her to the vet? My experience is that it is the rare vet who will...

Hi You may remember that one of my 2 day old chicks got out and was pecked by another hen. The first thing was to put calendula ointment on it. The next thing was to put vit e on it with a drop of tea tree oil in it. The next day at I put vit e on it with a thin film of vics vap o rub on it...

One of my chicks was misplaced during the night and was pecked by another hen. Then to my consternation the other 4 chicks pecked the wound larger. I separated the wounded chick, applied calendula ointment first and then vit e mixed with a drop of tea tree oil. The wound is healing up...

Hi I'm trying to post the photo, here. This guy is fitting in very well. The hens, who had never seen a rooster, were apprehensive at first, then overjoyed, and now resigned. But they like it that he takes care of them.

Hi ... I can't remember how to find me old posts. The rooster who showed up and looks like the Legbar, not really existent in the US, has a pea comb and must, then, be an Easter Egger. After his initial foolish aggression in the face of far superior strength he has calmed down and is, so far, a...

Hi This very fine rooster found us (my little flock has no rooster). It looks exactly like the photo of the cream Legbar rooster on your breed page. We don't want any rooster since I think they attract predators and roosters present their own set of problems - but we can't get rid of him...

I'm posting this here also. I put some Barred Rock chicks under my broody White Leghorn. They seemed somewhat aggressive and their habit of jumping up and hanging off of her wattles was cute. But mom now has blood all over her face. Too much protein in the chick crumbles? Is there something...

I put some Bar Rock chicks under my White Leghorn broody. 5 days old. They were cute pecking their new mom and hanging off her wattles. Cute no more. She now has a bloody face. I am reading about unusually aggressive youngsters on this site. What do you think is causing this? My first...

Hi...I just put 4 Barred Rock chicks under my broody White Leghorn for a friend of mine. I have that hen and two Ameracaunas and also two of what appear to be Redcaps (I got them from a family moving back to civilization). I am very sad to be without Buff Orpingtons at the moment though I am...