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It's my first year raising chickens too, harleydar, but I am totally hooked! I just ordered 19 more! I already have 23! My 2 girls with wet pox are doing amazingly well. They also have, along with half my flock, dry pox! www.firststatevetsupply.com has been a terrific resource. Perhaps they...

I'm terribly sorry for your losses, MandyH! And I sure hope your birds get through this ok, MissJames! I guess I'm lucky; we appear to have a mild case. About half my flock of 23 has the black lesions but I've only had 2 birds with runny eyes. I think it would have been much worse had I not...

You guys are so awesome! I can't thank you enough! I am so grateful to have a place where I can go for answers when I am scared and uncertain. I will digest all this new info and come up with a new plan. I was supposed to move the gals into their new pen this weekend. It should have been a...

Thanks ya'll! I feel more optimistic. Your support and advice is invaluable! I do, however, have more birds with lisions this morning. Ughhhh! After I made breakfast for my husband I scrambled a bunch of eggs for the girls! lol They really go crazy for em'! Everyone's appetite seems fine. I see...

I forgot to mention one thing... Fancy seems to be losing some feathers, not an alarming amount and her feathers seem dry, like she has feather dandruff! Weird! Probably unrealted and an indication of something lacking in her diet but I thought it might be worth mentioning. Thanks Jen! The...

Ok after much worrying and fretting Fancy has developed a couple black wart-like things... one on her foot and one on her comb and I can see that a few more are starting to develop there. Originally her only symptom was the runny eye so I suspected Coryza or bronchitis. At least know I have a...