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Sometimes chickens can get mites that crawl under the plates in their legs, this causes irritation and the chicken starts to peck at their legs. We had a rooster with this issue 2 years ago, have you noticed small black insects climbing on the chicken at all?

We have chickens that stop laying all the time, sometimes change of weather can cause the lapse in laying, stress also can cause it. A couple of years ago we had a hawk problem, a hawk would come and take a chicken nearly every day. During that time, the egg production of our hens slowed down...

We've had a similar situation with some of our hens and 1 of our ducks. In our experience it was a worm that had infested the eye. But regardless if it is a bacteria, the best thing to do is put Vet Rx on a q-tip and then apply the q-tip to the roof of their mouth twice a day. This will clear...

The first thing I would do is put the gosling in a bath tub with water. Instinct should tell it to swim, this needs to be done under supervision though and the water cannot be that deep just deep enough so that it can swim. If the gosling shows the ability of being able to swim then it will heal...

I'm glad she's doing better

It doesn't seem like a large injury, I would keep her isolated for a few days so you can monitor her. Keep the cut clean, and put antibiotic cream on it. Since its superficial it should heal quickly.

Hello, we are Lenihan Farms. To briefly introduce ourselves, we started off with three chickens 4 years ago. Now we have over 100 chickens, 50 ducks, an ever changing number of turkeys and a single pheasant (we are getting more). We constantly have new chicks and ducklings joining our farm...

Okay, the only thing is that there are no other injuries on the bird to lead to the assumption that they were killed before their head was removed.

We have asked our friends who also have chickens and they believe it could be possums that killed our chickens. They've dealt with them before and they said they like to drink the blood from their victims but they don't eat the meat or anything else. Where if it were raccoons or minks some of...

That was one thing that was weird to us as well.

We hope not, the heads were obviously ripped off so we doubt it.

So, the head and neck was ripped off of both roosters. No bite marks anywhere else and no blood anywhere.

That's so smart, I really hope it works.

We are purchasing one today. We've lived here for 4 years and have never dealt with a mink or a weasel before, so we dont know how to deal with them if it were one. There are no signs of injuries on any other chickens, but we will keep an eye out. Thank you

That's horrible, these are the only birds that were killed out of about 40 birds in that coop, so we are considering ourselves lucky.

There was no place near the chicken coop where we could find footprints. But this could be a possibility, the only odd thing would be the lack of blood or lack of signs of struggle.

This is very interesting, I'm so sorry this happened to you. It definitely something to think about.

So we ruled out any aerial predator.We found another rooster INSIDE the coop the exact same, no hawk or owl would be able to enter this. Head completely off but left next to the carcass, again no blood and no other injury on the bird. We are extremely confused and concerned for the rest of our...

So I let my chickens out at about 8 this morning, when I came back at 10 my large white rooster was right by the coop door dead (they are free range and I put them in at night). The weird thing was his placement, no feathers were disturbed but his head was clean off and placed right next to him...