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Hi I have a 7 mo Easter Egger with a swollen shut eye, no other symptoms that would be typical of a respiratory infection (no wheezing, sneezing, rales, nasal discharge, and the eye doesn't smell bad) andher other eye is fine. I'm thinking she got an eye injury, maybe pecked in the eye? I...

I have a 3 week old oegb who suddenly developed problems with his/her leg(s). It's been fine all along and today I found him/her in the brooder laying forward and trying to get around using its wings and the other chicks were stepping on it. It had food in it's crop and when I brought it to the...

I read through several threads on this subject and still have a few questions. First, my situation... I noticed about a month ago some broken off feathers on the sides of one of my chicken's neck. And since then more are showing missing feathers in their neck area, particularly where a muff or...

My broody is raising 5 mixed bantams (she hatched) in 2x4 hutch. I also got several bantams out of a mixed assortment at Coastal at the same time - they are the same age within 1-2 days. The broody chicks are LF or banty cochin X banty polish and d'Uccle roo X oegb, dutch or silkie. The hatchery...

...can a large fowl broody raise? My Blue Copper Marans is hatching some bantam eggs for her first time. Right now she has 7 or 8 hatched and could have as many as 10 or 11 if all the ones that passed the float test hatch. My local feed stores are getting their assorted bantams tomorrow...

I checked my girls for mites the last couple days, because someone I know had them on her chickens. Today I saw one little brown/red thing scatter from the vent area when I separated the feathers on my Welsummer, so I'm going to dust the girls and clean out the coop. Can I mix the permethrin...

OK, I looked this up on the forum before posting, so I know about the drawbacks that people have listed and I've tried to plan for these, so here's an idea that I had...around here people are often posting free sliders on craiglist, so I got to thinking...how about making a coop almost entirely...

Newbie question...how does a broody hen hatching chicks keep the right humidity as in an incubator? Or does she? I know with ducks they're in and out of water and the water on the hen does it...but when a broody chicken hen goes into lockdown, how does she control humidity so her chicks don't...

Hooray! I put two new nest boxes in last night - a different design than the hooded cat litter boxes they've been using. These two are a round plastic tub from the dollar store inside a milk crate turned on its side. The tubs had cut outs for handles so I zip-tied through them to the crates for...

My 8-mo old Blue Copper Marans may be going broody, and if so, I'm thinking of letting her try to hatch some mixed bantam eggs I'm getting from another BYC'er. They're not expensive, rare or show quality so if it doesn't work out, it's not a total disaster. And if it does, I should have some...

At one time there was an article(?) with pictures of eggs for each breed that folks had submitted. Anyone know where that is now? I checked the learning center and it's not an article. Also, searches for "eggs breed pictures" brought up thousands of posts. Thanks!

Why do we discard eggs after giving chickens certain meds (I know the bottle says so). Will the small amount of medication in their eggs really hurt a human? After all, if a 5-6 lb chicken can handle a 1/2cc of Valbazen, can't a human who weighs 20, 30 or even 40 times more handle the even...

I was going to title this "why aren't my chickens laying?" but thought Speckled Hen would slap me. Just kidding. Seriously, though, I thought that first year pullets that started laying in the summer or fall were supposed to continue laying through their first winter, at least somewhat, but...

I have a Cuckoo Marans hen who is at least 6 months old now (I got her in early May as a chick) whose comb and wattles have been red for at least two months. I keep thinking she is going to be the next to lay yet others keep beating her to it - so far 2 EEs, a BCM, two Golden Lakenvelders, and a...

Today one of my bantams (ee x d'uccle, very pretty gold and lavender girl) flew over the run fence when she got startled by my spreading straw. I didn't know she could fly that well. The dogs chased her around and she got in the corner behind my garden shed where the dogs can't get. When I went...

My three 6-mo runner ducks are giving me two eggs per day, and sometimes three. They are constantly moving the site where they lay the eggs, I believe based on the fact that I find and collect them. They are good at choosing a nest site that they all use, not just anywhere they happen to be at...

I have a golden campine whp just started laying. She is laying her eggs out in the run with the runner ducks' eggs. The ducks moved their lay site regularly she moves with them. My other laying pullets all lay in the next boxes in the coop. Any reason for this other than that's where she likes...

do predators like raccoons and possums just eat the head and crop or neck and leave the rest of the body? I would think the breast/innards would be the most nutritious, filling part. When's the last time you ordered a bucket of heads and necks at KFC? just curious...

Various meds have withdrawal times to not eat the meat or the eggs...I'm assuming because traces of the medicine will still be in there. Are the eggs actually unsafe to eat, or is that a commercial requirement because they're not allowed to sell them? Would the amount of the medicine in the...

Today I found my 2.5 mo. bantam EE floating in the duck pool. Her head was above the water and her eyes were open, I thought I detected movement so hoped s/he was still alive. When I picked her up s/he was limp but not stiff. No movement but I could detect a tiny twitch (heartbeat?) in the...