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I coated the worst deep wound with neo this morning(one above cloaca). The hen is a buff Orpington. I think her legs hurt, it doesn't seem like she's moved around much in her cage today. I was out of the house and just got home. She's also being docile and sitting in my lap. She never does that...

We have a puppy who's been around chickens pretty much her entire life(she was born on a homestead and we bought her for our homestead). We know that puppies can get rough with chickens so we've been training her to be calm with them and to play with her big brother instead. He used to also have...

Little update: It's been 7 days since she's been inside and she's been doing well, though she hasn't laid an egg in that time. I think the reason for that is because she dropped a few feathers and her winter coat is growing in all at once now! It happened out of nowhere 3 days ago, just a bunch...

This is actually the reason I got Esmeralda. I had a pullet with a crocked neck that twisted nearly 90° to the left. I got her for free(and bought her a couple friends) while working at TSC due to her deformity and treated her for wry neck. The older flock members and my roosters rejected her so...

Well, a full 24 hours have gone by. She seems to be doing alright by herself. She was never particularly close to anyone in the flock, but she generally hung out by the flock so I was worried she might take being alone hard. She doesn't seem to mind all that much. And let me tell you, when she...

I'm not entirely sure why she didn't develop feathers well. She does have a pretty serious cross beak(her tongue sticks out and shrivels up, it's really weird and keeps growing as it shrivels away). However, she can fill up her crop pretty well. some nights it looks like it might burst! This is...

It wouldn't hurt to get this and try. She's got a pretty severe case. Thank you for the recommendation!

This is more of a rant than anything, but do eventually ask questions. TLDR at bottom. So I'm embarrassed and quite ashamed of myself for not being prepared for the scenario of my cross speak not being able to stay outside during late fall and winter. I knew she wasn't growing a thick enough...

My mother has befriended a more experienced farmer and has been taking his word for just about everything. I've talked to him and heard of some of his ideas and I don't agree with everything personally, he seems to care a lot about his animals but some of his methods just seem.... Lack luster...

They only get locked up at night time and free range all day, as stated before. They free range on my land(and occasionally the neighbors land). Would the coop still be too small for more hens if they're only in there at night? He's separated right now and I do want to keep him, but if it...

This is a very insightful response with info I've seen rarely. I have disregarded comments on others posts before about roos only being good for breeding because I brought my eldest roo into the flock for the reason of breaking up hen fights and being there to protect them from predators if my...

Thank you so much for all this info. The older rooster comes first and I'll most likely get rid of the youngest. I'm going to keep him in my hospital coop for a few months, it's located where the other chickens like to hang out for most of the day. I've read about rooster dominance and how to...

You don't think he'll calm down as he gets older? I love my cockerel to pieces. He's so nice and loves to be held and carried around. And I'll most likely get rid of the youngest

Sorry forgot to answer this question. He's around 5 years old or so. He was given to me by someone else for free

He's under a year old, 5 to 6 months. 9 hens 2 pullets They have a 6x6 ft coop that I close up nightly and they free range all day, not locked in a run. Both my younger roosters were supposed to be pullets. I plan on getting adult hens next year after winter, I just don't have the ability to...

So I have a young black Australorp rooster is just barely gotten his spurs in. He's so overly sexually active and very persistent on it. He's constantly force mounting hens when my old rooster is off somewhere else. He's ripped feathers off a few of my hens backs and even injured two, making a...

I finally did some digging and found that it's a parasitic nematode towards insects. Totally safe for chickens I guess it just freaked me out for a second. It's a white horse hair worm. Typically they come in brown or tan but can come in white. They trick their host insects into drowning...

I have a water trough for my chickens that I clean out weekly. I tried nipples and cups but they didn't take to them and just started drinking out of the outdoor dog bowl instead so I decided to get them water trough that the dog can't have access to (I prefer to keep dog saliva out of their...

Update: I almost forgot to update this. Quick and to the point, she gained back a healthy amount of weight pretty quick.

Update: she's healed up well. She just can't open her wing