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It has been 4 weeks since Mango (ISA brown, four years old, stopped laying about a year ago) has been separated and staying in the house since my daughter found her standing with one leg, and left leg curled. She had mites but I got rid of them. There is no swelling on the ankle and assumed it...

My Rhode Island Red bantam hen is going through a hard molt. She is covered in pin feathers and her skin is quite visible. She was in the coop probably all day today, probably trying to keep warm. She sneezed a few times and she didn't look well, so I brought her in. I gave her cat food and...

Pumpkin, a three-year-old ISA brown, had a poopy butt and looked dirty, so I brought her in and washed her butt and noticed that she has a prolapsed vent. But it is not like the ones I have seen in pictures on forums. I wonder if it is a prolapsed vent or a tumor?!?! She may have had it for a...

My three-year-old ISA brown hen has been unwell for over a week now. I first thought she had water belly. Then in the past four days, her crop gets filled with fluid and she throws up all the fluid (it is clear brownish liquid without much smell. It is not sour smell but more like yeast-ish...

I found my 2.5 year old hen laying on the ground not being able to move yesterday morning. Her left leg was floppy and she didn't curl her toes, so I thought she had a nerve injury. I brought her in the house and made a sling. Her belly also felt hard and I thought she was egg bound, so I gave...

I just lost a 2.5-year-old hen to probably some kind of neurological issue. She started losing balance and stumbled as she was walking in the beginning, then she started to fall from the head as she stood up and tried to walk. Her feet were not paralysed. She could stand up. She had a good grip...

Hi. My white wyandotte hen was sitting on 7 RIR bantam eggs. Three hatched and one of them was dead. I don't know where the other one went but she is still sitting on three eggs at day 24. I haven't candled the eggs so I don't know if it is growing or dead. How many more days should I wait...

I have read a lot of threads on bumblefoot here but I am posting... I am pretty sure two of my ducks have bumblefoot. They have a few squishy lumps. I have given them an epsom salt bath for 30 minutes, disinfect with betadine, and applied polysporin. I haven't tried to remove the brown...

My duck was limping or standing with just one foot when I let the ducks out of the coop yesterday morning. I treated her with botulism three days ago, and she was fine the day before and she started limping yesterday. She has a lump on the joint on the toe and the toe is slightly swollen. She is...

Hi! I just saw ringworms in my rooster's poop. I have Combantrin (pyrantel pamoate 125g) tablets that treats humans for pinworms and roundworms and ivermectin pour-on for cattle. Should I treat chickens with ivermectin? Or combantrin??? I should treat ducks, too, as they share the same area when...

I noticed my 1.5 year old hen (she is not a great layer, she lays soft shell eggs a lot of times even though I give her enough calcium) had a plump on the bottom of the vent that looked like an egg was coming out soon yesterday. Today, she is walking slowly and looks like her belly is heavy. The...

I noticed that a hen limping a bit this morning. She has a bit of skin on the back of her foot peeling. I dunk her foot in an epsom salt bath salt, cleaned the area with betadine, applied polysporin and wrapped her foot with a vet tape. I am not sure what happened to her foot though, stepped on...

I have a broody hen sitting on five eggs. It has been four days. She is currently in a brooding bin in the coop. I saw a hen sitting on her to lay an egg in the bin. I am not sure it is OK to leave her there or make a mama house with a dog crate and put it in the run to give her own space (the...

One of my runner ducklings got bitten by my cat and had three punctures on the top of the head and both of under the eyes two days after hatching. She pulled through, and she is now four weeks old. She is significantly smaller than the rest (because she missed eating and getting sufficient...

It snowed yesterday, and my chickens spent a long time in the coop scratching the floor (I am doing deep bedding) and they turned the bed upside down. I removed the bed and threw it to the run and put a new bedding on the floor of the coop. Here are two questions... I just throw dirty wood...

I have two cockerels and seven pullets that are 5 months old. One of the pullets is getting bald on the head... Not bullying, but seems like the cockerels pull off her feather off the head when they mount on her. I cannot use a chicken apron of course, then what should I do?

Hi, I have 9 19-week old chickens. Two of them are roosters. One of the roosters (his name is Daisy since we thought he was she first...) who is No.2 is not popular among girls. They spend most of the day in a large fenced yard, and then I take them back to their coop/run in the evening about...

Hi, I have nine 10 week old chicks. They live in a coop with run but I bring them down to a fenced yard in the afternoon. I take them by holding them or putting them in a cat crate. It is easy when I take them out but it is challenging to catch them and bring them back to the coop. At the...

She is 3-week old, but her size is almost half of the others. She had a slipped tendon (or could be spraddle leg) and I put leg hobbles and cured it. She was all better so she was back to the brooder with her 8 pals but since the other girls are much bigger and wilder, I think she hurt her knee...

Hi, I am new to this group and also new to keeping chickens. Just got 9 chicks 3 weeks ago. They are now about 3 weeks + a couple of days. One of the chicks has a broken hock and I have separated her and secured her leg using Q-tips and vet wrap for 4 days. I removed the tape and had her walk a...