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Hello, just a quick one to see if anyone has any experience of this? My chicken had a general anaesthetic and pain relief etc for bumblefoot in both feet, she survived the surgery and is doing well but firstly, she is doing black liquid (sometimes explosive) poops and secondly her crop doesn’t...

My favourite chicken has had mild bumblefoot for quite a long time, but recently I noticed it had got worse and so today she has been at the vet. She had an anaesthetic and they cut open and flushed it out, but the vet said it has spread to her joint. Everything we and they have done will give...

My favourite chicken has had mild bumblefoot for quite a long time, but recently I noticed it had got worse and so today she has been at the vet. She had an anaesthetic and they cut open and flushed it out, but the vet said it has spread to her joint. Everything we and they have done will give...

Hello, I have a chicken who has Bumblefoot, although there was absolutely definitely not a 'kernel' as many people say when we investigated. Soaked for a long time, pulled out scabby lumps and stringy bits, but no singular corn. Nothing as satisfying as that! We keep soaking each day and...

I have recently added two new pullets to my flock of two 3 year-old chickens. My top chicken is quite chilled and has put them in their place as you would expect her to, but chicken number two has been a right old bully and has now pecked the current bottom chicken of the new chickens on the...

Or just a callous? And if it is bumblefoot is it extreme enough for me to do anything to it? I read somewhere that it can right itself, and somewhere else I read that you should treat it if they’re limping, which she isn’t. Thanks in advance!

Expertise please! Is this mild scaly leg mite, or the start of it?

As the weather has got colder here in the UK my chickens have stopped laying which I expected but they also seem to have really quietened down, and stopped moving around so much. It seems to me like almost like they’ve gone into a sort of semi hibernation state! They still potter around from...

I’m newish to keeping chickens (coming up to a year) and I’d love to know what is in your chicken first aid kit! I’m based in the UK so there may be some medication you can get in the US that I can’t get here but I can of course Google and try to find an alternative! I’ve been collecting things...

If you pick off a black bumble scab, and after treating with ointment and wrapping the scab is then paler, is that a sign that things are improving?

Can I use this neosporin on my chicken? Or have I got the wrong one? We don’t have it in UK so I ordered off eBay but now I’m worried as I’ve read you shouldn’t get the pain relief one.

Hi all, can you tell me how bad you think this bumblefoot is? The one on the toe specifically. The pad of this one looks a bit different I know. I was worried it was slightly infected so I wrapped it with some germolene and vet wrap last night, haven’t taken it off yet. FYI - I have been soaking...

My chickens have had foul smelling diarrhoea for 3 days, yellowish brown, runny, sometimes a bit lumpy and or foamy, and it TRULY STINKS. I'm worried they have worms- I've ordered Flubinvet and Coxoid and I really need to know if I can treat with both at the same time? My chickens are otherwise...

Hello all. What was once my friendliest and sweetest pullet has become aggressive, with me only. I have 2 chickens (I know minimum 3 is optimal but I recently lost one, and anyway this was happening before my third died). Of the two she is is the less dominant, bottom of the pecking order. She...

Hi, I would appreciate some advice. I am a newish chicken parent having hatched my 3 chickens in December. They’re now 6 months old and have just started laying about 3wks ago. I have a disabled hen who has always been accepted by the other two, as they hatched together. She has a bad leg and...

Hi everyone. My pullet laid her first egg today! I’m soooo proud of her 🥰 she is now exhibiting unusual behaviour, she is quiet and keeps nipping into their ‘bedroom’ for a sit down. I’m pretty sure this is just the effects of laying her first egg, it must be pretty weird for an egg to come out...

I have two 20week old pullets who are reddening in the face and obviously nearing egg laying age. One of them who has always had the sweetest temperament of the two yesterday ‘attacked’ my watch in an almost aggressive way! Rather hilariously she got ‘told off’ by the other one who pecked her on...

My 4 month old pullets’ faces have started seriously reddening over the last 2 weeks so I’m hoping for eggs soon! What’s your estimates on how long I’ll have to wait? V excited! 🥚🥰🥚

Hello all, hope you’re having a nice day. This morning my ‘teenage’ (three months old) chickens were having a squabble and the current ‘top chicken’ did a classic running jump onto my lovely disabled chicken who then proceeded to fluff out her neck feathers and retaliate by pecking her in the...

Morning all. I have three 12 week old chickens who this morning are doing particularly rank smelling diarrhoea-y poops. Is this something chickens fed on a diet mainly of pellets but the occasional kitchen scrap/treat do? Or is it cause for concern? They are otherwise healthy but over the 12...