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Found the poor girl with dried blood on her bum feathers. Looks like there is fresh blood under the roost. It didn't look prolapsed but if it is there isn't much to be done, is there? She is an older girl and hasn't been laying for a month or so. She just finished a molt. She's acting normal but...

If it were a comb or wattle I would expect to see it on feathers, which I don't. I can definitely see it being a toenail but i don't see any blood anywhere in the run where they roost or hang out either. They use a white ladder to get up to that roost and there's no blood on it, either. Maybe I...

Happy Thanksgiving! I went out to get eggs this afternoon and there was bright red blood splattered under the roost. Nothing on eggs. It doesn't appear to involve poop (it was on top of poop but not in it and had apparently splattered from a chicken sitting on the roost). Probably a couple...

I usually keep a mixed age flock for this exact reason. Unfortunately I just found my youngest chicken who just started laying dead under the roost so I am happy to be getting two eggs a day out of the remaining 7 girls who range from 1-3 years.

I have had chickens take a few months to molt. You might try a higher protein food like feather fixer to see if it helps her get back to her old self.

How old is she? Is she molting?

I don't know but he's pretty! I was thinking some kind of sex link but I don't think so with that lacing. Following to find out.

Do you have a picture of your brooder setup? Recurring pasty butt is usually a sign your brooder is too hot.

I never raise my chicks to be super friendly by holding them etc. I just feed them out of my hand when they are pullets and they always turn out very friendly. My kid can pick all of them up. I think it depends on breed and individual personality. Raising them alone is against their nature and I...

I did straw this year to help the chickens with the wet snow. It helped in the short term but now that the snow is gone I just have a bunch of wet straw that's really hard to turn over. Lesson learned. I am going to stock up on sand as soon as the weather dries out a bit. Your new setup sounds...

You can usually buy them at the farm store or even home depot.

My chickens are very picky about their nesting boxes. If I put wood shavings in they lay somewhere else. If I put hay they kick it out. So it sounds normal to me

Wood chips have helped a ton with my mud mess.

Rocks and branches should be fine too. I think that sometimes chicks get stressed from hatching, shipping, adjusting to new things (even grown hens will go on a laying strike if you rearrange their coop sometimes) and while its easy to get stressed about it yourself the fact is sometimes they...

Have you seen him eating anything weird? Sometimes they will munch on wood chips. I can't remember if you said the brooder was lined with plastic? I would get that out of there if you think theyre picking at it

Don't do too many things at once or you won't know what's working. I would skip the corid tomorrow at least and give him the Nutri-Drench and egg yolk mash and see if he improves. Then if that doesn't work we will tag some experts to see if we can get better help. Nutri-Drench has saved my...

Her comb looks nice and red so she could very well be laying

As long as it doesn't have B vitamins it's fine

Don't do Nutri-Drench with corid they will cancel each other out. If he is eating and drinking fine I am stumped other than to say try the mash to get him to perk up

Do you have a picture? If you can get one of her belly that would be good. I think if she were egg bound she would be dead by Noe but I'm no expert