I noticed this one one of my year old Californian hens yesterday. She is limping slightly, but acting otherwise normal. My daughter says she thinks it has been there for a month, but I am not sure that is reliable. Bumble foot? I haven't ever seen it on the top of the foot before?
It's hot here! All of my birds look hot. Egg production is down. (went from about 18 eggs a day to 6 in the last week!) I noticed a few of my birds have dirty behinds and are acting very sluggish. I don't see any diarrhea on the ground, but I have to assume it's there. Additionally, we moved...
I chose to take one of the puppies to my sister's house today. I am going to focus on training the dominant puppy for a few weeks. Cora also tends to be better at listening and more intent on pleasing me, so I am hoping I can someday reintroduce her sister. I hated to do it, but I love my...
I have two 13 week old Anatolian/great Pyrenees mix puppies that we got specifically to help guard our hens. We have had a couple previous dogs that were chicken killers, but we got these guys specifically because they were raised very closely with chickens and came from great protection-minded...
I am in the medical field and if this was on a person, I would totally be fascinated and want to touch it. However, since it's a chicken, it really grosses me out. I haven't touched it.... It doesn't move like it's filled with fluid, more like a heavy weight, doesn't change shape or anything. I...
I have a 3 year old barred rock hen that has this big, golf ball-sized tumor on her neck. It's bright red, (about the color of her comb) and held on with a tiny thread of skin. It flops around when she walks and kinda grosses me out. She's had it at least 6 months and it's getting...
I had a 1 year old barred rock hen die today. I noticed that she had been lying down a lot and just not being as active. I separated her from the others and inspected her. I couldn't find anything wrong with her. Comb was red, and nothing abnormal as far as I could see. Her belly was soft, vent...
I noticed one of my barred rock hens has a suddenly pale comb. She's not even a year old, and they have all been laying well, considering the cold weather. I separated her from the flock and gave her a good look over. I cannot find anything else wrong with her. She does hang back a bit when...
We had a pretty bad mite infestation. 2 of our older hens had died, and the rest stopped laying before we figured out what to do. The broody hen even got off the nest, and they were all trying to roost on top of the house. Gary even stopped crowing. We went all out. Sevin dusted all...
Yes, they are definitely on the chickens. This evening the chickens were all roosting on the roof of the tractor. (Even my broody hen refused to get in the coop) I had to put them back in the coop, and after handling one of the chickens for just a few seconds, I had mites all over my hands and...
Our chicken tractor is infested with tiny gray/white mites! There are thousands! We had an older chicken die yesterday and the rest of them are scratching and fluffing their feathers. Combs are somewhat pale and my egg production is in the toilet. :( I am reading lots of different ways to...