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Hi everyone! I hope someone can give me a quick response to this urgent matter. I have ten fertile d'uccle eggs that I gave to my young (less than one year old) and first-time broody cochin, Black Beauty. She happily sat on them for 14 days, but just now gave up and walked away. I tried, but...

Found our Cuckoo Bluebar, Indigo, laying down with her eyes closed in nesting box yesterday afternoon, so immediately moved her to infirmary. Here's her symptoms: 1. She presents as lethargic with loose, watery -- mostly clear with some black and some white -- stool (Photos 3&4). 2. She will...

We were two hours away when a snowstorm with icy wind hit, and by the time we got home, the temperatures had fallen below freezing. We immediately noticed both of our roosters had darkened combs. We brought the roosters inside. Their combs didn't turn white (that we could see)... just dark...

Details: Patient is a 2 1/2 week old speckled sussex. Please see attached videos taken from various angles -- he/she does this neck stretch twist every couple of minutes. Starting three mornings ago, I thought she had an impacted crop because it was VERY swollen and soft. So I gave her coconut...

This morning at 11:00AM CST, I pulled my 8-month old Salmon Favorelle, "Honey", out of the lake.... she must have been chased by a dog or other animal. I thought she was dead, but as soon as I had her in my arms, her eyes were wide open and she was breathing, but it sounded like there was water...

PLEASE HELP! I have a 6 1/2 month old buff silkie bantam-- brand new layer -- who is struggling to lay what I am almost sure is her first egg. She is spread flat with her hind end lifted up, breathing heavy, with a slight squeal in each breath. I wrote in the forum about her yesterday because...

I have a buff silkie bantam that is 6 1/2 months old, and have several other silkie bantams the same age, so I can't say for 100% certain if she has laid an egg yet. (They all started showing interest in the nest boxes about two weeks ago, and several have started to lay, but I'm almost sure...

I have a mixed breed flock of all hens. They have a clean coop and run, and free range in our large yard for several hours each day. One chicken is a black silkie bantam that is 6 1/2 months old. She recently started to lay eggs (about 2 weeks ago). For the past three days, she has sat in a...

I have six (6) 10-week old pullets. They are: 1 buff brahma, 1 white cochin, 1 plymouth rock, 1 wyandotte, 2 orpingtons. It has been a struggle the past few weeks trying to integrate them from barn brooder to outdoor coop. They will eventually integrate with another small another flock (6...

I have a small flock of six-month old hens (3 Australorps and 2 Rhode Island Reds) I will call Flock A. I have a second flock of fourteen 8-week old chicks (Flock B), consisting of 7 bantams and 7 normal-size chicks, various breeds. I plan to integrate the 7 normal-size chicks in with Flock A...

I have a very mixed (various breeds) flock (14 chicks) who are 3-4 weeks old. I let them out for the first time today in a little pen and while the sun was warm, the occasional breeze felt slightly cool. So just in case, I put their brooder (Brinsea Eco-Glow) warmer in the pen with them so they...

Hi Everyone -- I live in rural Missouri and have only lived here for three months. We started to set up a homestead, and don't know many in the area. Due to an accident, I have to go into the hospital for surgery. How do I either find someone to care for my chickens or rehome them?

Three days ago, we purchased a dozen guinea fowl keets ranging in age from a few days to two weeks from a farm some distance from our home. The family was listed as Guinea Fowl breeders, but they didn't take my husband into the barn where they kept the keets along with other fowl. The first...