We are very new to backyard chickens but so far have successfully raised 8 newborn chicks to be an 8 week old happy healthy flock! One turned out to be a rooster, so about a week ago we gave him back to the farm we got them from, and they were kind enough to trade us a hen who they estimated to...
Just picked up 5 new chickens, not sure of age but they’re probably 8-10 week old silkies. I have isolated the one with blood. This is what the blood looks like. It looks like a blood clot too. Can someone help me/give me tips on what to do? Another chicken had green poop as well… again, I just...
Hi everyone!
By way of introduction- I am a long time lurker but first time poster! My girls are nearly 2 years old and they are my babies, I hatched them from an incubator by myself. I am a complete and total helicopter mummy and am devoted to my 3 beautiful girls.
The issue at hand: When...
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I recently started raising chickens. I have 8 that are about 3 weeks old and I got them at about 3/4 days of age from a local chicken farm. They have remained in my garage in a large brooder since I brought them home and have not been exposed to any other animals. They have 2 water...
so i have a button roo who is normally with my girls, but i started noticing my girls had some bald patches from him, so i decided to try to put him in with my bachelor roos. they tore him up. the skin is peeling off of his head and he is obviously in a ton of pain. i feel so bad, im literally...
I have 6 chickens, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Golden Lace Wyandottes,
I raised them from chicks together and they are now about 6 months old and one of the Rhode Island Reds’ is starting to pluck the feathers off of all three of the Golden Laced’s backs near their tails.
I just started noticing...
I was changing my duck’s diaper tonight and I noticed some red in the diaper. I have not noticed this before. This is the first time. He’s been acting normal and happy otherwise. Is this cause for concern? I’m very worried!
I'm a new chickeneer with 6 hens and 1 rooster ( all different breeds and all between 7 and 9 months old)
This morning when I let then out of the coop, there was blood splatter on the outside of their feeder (a fair bit and feeder was knocked off Hanger and sitting on ground) some blood on run...
Second time this week I have seen blood in 6 week old chickens. Just moved them to into old adult chickens coop (the adults are in new bigger coop) which was cleaned but maybe not spotless- so wondering if they caught cocci from them? They have never had any o virus signs but not sure what else...
One of my roosters has been cocky lately & looks like he got in a good scuffle. His spur is hanging on by a thread! He walks fine (unless he bumps it) but I'm worried it's hurting him. 😔
Is there a wound spray that might numb it? Will it just fall off? He isn't one that will just let me catch...
I have 6 chicks about 2 weeks olds. I got them from Rural King which told me they were vaccinated for coccidiosis. They had all been doing fairly well. Growing, eating, playing, drinking, and pooping normally. I took them outside for a few hours yesterday since it was warm and they seemed to...
I have four 12 week old chicks. We have four hens born in July 2022. We have been trying to slowly introduce them since our chick cage is getting small for all four. We left them today in the run for two hours unattended. Things seemed ok when we left.
They were not. I am trying to take care of...
Cracked some eggs into a pan today, and one of them had blood all through egg white. Looking closer, there was a thick "blood cord" attached to the yolk. It couldn't have been a fertilized egg. We lost our rooster about 2 months ago. And they're in an enclosed run. This egg had been in the...
So I went out to feed the quail this morning and there were splats of blood all over the cage. Thought maybe there was a fight in there, though that would be strange because they've (1 roo & 6 hens) always been fine together. Though, 2 of the girls were just introduced in there alittle over a...
My 3 year old california white hen laid this in a soft shell this morning- What's inside??? Looks like a white rock, and a blood clump with tissue in it.
My main concern is her safety, her reproductive system has always been a little funky which I know can turn dangerous real quick.
Sorry it's long. If you don't want to read, here's the very short version: 1 chicken dead with no known cause, 1 missing. Some of the live chickens and ducks have saliva on them but no injuries or broken bones. What happened?
The full version:
Last night, my fiance woke me up at 4:30am and...
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I have an emergency, i lost i think 7 quail in the past 5 days, 3 were a month old and 4 were 2 months old 2 male 3 female and 2 unknown. They stopped laying eggs and all the females started losing alot of weight. They all got along no injuries or fights but i did have alot...
Hi my 1year old female Pekin duck Cheeseball is bleeding with clear discharge out of her vent. She is not moving and eating for 2 days. We gave her corid having thought that she had coccidiosis however later my husband and I noticed the blood was not mixed with her poop but comes after the poop...
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I have a sick chicken and would appreciate some help.
Parsnip is a 1 year old Chalk Hill Blue hybrid (a blue egg layer). She is part of a flock of 4 backyard hens, who have been kept in a cage for bird flu reasons (We are in the UK). They are fed on layers pellets with a handful of corn...
This little girl, named Willow (Willow Ptarmigan) is having some issues, apx 9-10 weeks old . I recently got her from a local breeder, and she’s had issues from day 1, with her own clutch mates! My older chickens don’t bother her at all but her clutch mates constantly pick at her tail feathers...