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Our Blue Cochin got beat up by one of our Ameraucanas today and it's the worst injury I've seen on a bullied chicken. The top of her head looks split open, about an inch in width and it looks like it's deep down to her skull! Not just a bloodied pecking but a deep split on the top of her head...

OK guys... This one is funny. Ive been calling him a "he" for 2 years and "his" name is Roo. Now I think maybe it's a hen who just feathered differently and acts differently 😂 I can't say for sure if she's laid an egg before or not. Reasons why I thought he was a he: 1) Head feathers: they are...

We live in Texas and it's been over 100F towards 106F+ for over a month. We just got some new baby chicks in and I have been keeping them at 95F with a heat lamp for certain hours of the night but during the day the lamp is off because it's nearly 100F in their brooder. Is this going to be a...

Hi all. The other night when I went to close up the chickens, one hen was sprawled out on the ground instead of on the roost and I thought she was dead. To my surprise when I touched her she was still alive and would stand up on her own after I picked her up. No blood or physical damage. I...

For the last ~2 weeks my splash marans has been acting weird. At first I thought she hurt herself jumping down from their roost (she's a big girl and one morning I heard a commotion and found her with her tail down--I checked their cams and she started making a commotion right after jumping...

When I collected their eggs I found part of a smashed egg but with no yolk and hardly any shell (that yellow is a flower from their herbal mixture). Did a snake come through here and eat an egg?

It's gotten to the point where I have to put him on the roost every night or he will try to sleep in a nesting box (and our roost is much higher than the nests, and all the other hens always prefer the roost to sleep on--he used to too!). Until about a week ago he would never do this. He is...

It must've been a Texas Rat Snake. I've seen a few around the barn, and we don't have too many rodents but a few here and there. I've moved them out of the barn before and we also had one steal one of the girl's fake eggs months ago. Well...I came into the coop this morning and our smallest...

I lost my favorite and most trusted chicken yesterday morning. I am so heartbroken...she was the leader of the pack, all the other chickens learned from her and trusted her like she trusted me. Always running to me when I called her and following me around. They were out too early yesterday...

Hi all, unfortunately when I looked closely at one of our Blue Cochins this morning I saw that she had a large bump or wart on her upper beak. It's fairly large but I have no idea what it is or how to treat it. Does anybody else? Thank you, she is mama chicken to the rest of the flock. She...

One of my chickens (Ameraucana), who happens to be the runt of the flock, has started doing this thing where she will walk backwards a few steps while wobbling her head slowly back and forth (left and right not up and down). It almost looks like she is hypnotized when she does it, then she...