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Hi All, I have a chicken who’s right eye is injured. She appeared fine yesterday, but today I noticed that it looked like one of her eyes were missing. Upon further inspection, it appears that she has a huge swelling taking over her eye socket. There is a white/grey mass taking up most of the...

Hi all! I’ve noticed that several chickens in my flock seem thin when I feel their breast bones. They are acting normally, laying, have had no diet changes, and I haven’t noticed any worms in their poo. My flock is comprised of chickens ranging from almost a year to five years old. I was...

Advice for my fried chicken. Bless her heart, I feel just terrible. The day before yesterday, we left for errands and all was well. When we returned home around two hours later, I heard squawking and ran outside to the run. My welsummer, Rhubarb, had busted out of the screen door on the run. We...

Hello all! I have noticed orange poop in my chicken run. I’m not sure who it is coming from - I stand out there and watch and watch but can’t catch any ladies in the act. Most of the poops in the run are healthy but there are always a few of these orange poops. They are sometimes slimy...

Two of my thirteen ladies are losing lots of feathers! They seem to be acting normal otherwise. It isn’t their usual time to molt and they aren’t losing feathers in a molting pattern, but mostly downy fluff. It has been VERY hot in our area - upper nineties every day! Is this a normal behavior...

My 3-4 year old Golden Comet, Lucy, was a faithful layer but hasn't laid in a few weeks. 2 weeks ago, we had a short bout with vent fleet but it cleared up. About a week ago, she pulled lots of feathers out while still acting normal otherwise. 3 days ago, when I went out to the coop, she...

Hello, My 3,4 year old Golden Comet, Lucy, hasn't laid for the past few weeks. A few weeks ago, we had trouble with her getting runny, loose stools, her bottom became smelly and red, and she lost her feathers. I treated it as if it was vent gleet. The issue seemed to dry up and her skin seemed...