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Thank you! It’s been one problem after the other with these chickens.

Hello, Last week we noticed a long dark line on our buff’s beak. I though it was just food or dirt. A few days ago we tried washing it off with warm water on a qtip but she wouldn’t let us rub it or examine it well. Today I checked it and it definitely is a hole it almost looks decayed. She had...

Good to know. Thank you. I have 7 chickens. There are 2 roosting bars but they usually all use the tallest one which is about 5’ long. Occasionally the camera showed one on the lower bar. And one is sometimes on the board below the others. 🙈 I just want to make sure they are getting good rest...

No light in the coop. There is no light outside except some residual from our house (about 50’ away) or the motion light if a critter comes past the house. It doesn’t go off that often.

We put a trail camera in our coop last and just looked at the photos. They moved around every 5-6 minutes for hours. Only once did they settle down and stay in one place for about an hour. Is this normal? Or do they have bugs or something keeping them up. I’m paranoid about lice and mites. They...

Like a saline solution?

We got them all from a hatchery in the mail as chicks. No other birds have been introduced. I read that article today. It seems like such an awful disease. The chickens do roam the yard all day. Idk it could be from mice or wild birds. Maybe that’s the risk of letting them roam? Thank you for...

Hello We got 7 chicks this summer and all has been well until now. They are almost 10 weeks old. Last night we noticed our Olive Egger’s eye was swollen and it looked liked there were bubbles in her eye. We are new to raising chickens and unsure what to do. I keep reading that bubbles means...