#chicken

  1. EasterChickens

    PLEASE HELP!! Chicken with eye closed and leaking vent !!PLEASE HELP VERY URGENT!!

    Hello everyone, I just woke up this morning to let my 3 chickens out and they were all completely fine. Then, in the afternoon, my 2 year & 10 month old female easter egger, started to have her tail down, eye closed but she still wanted to eat and could peck. But whenever she peck she would...
  2. T

    Can’t tell what breed this 4 week old chick is

    I have some 4 week old chicks, I know all the other breeds except this one chick who I can’t seem to tell exactly what it is. I thought she was a golden laced Wyandotte but she looks nothing like our other one. Can anyone help out and tell me maybe what breed she or he is? Does this one just...
  3. A

    Cyanosis, Bloated Abdomen, Swollen/Stool-Covered Vent and No Eggs!

    Hello everyone, my friend's chicken is looking very sickly, so I'm posting here to get her some help... I will try to update y'all with more info about the chicken when she's able to help me with that. They said she has a puffy chest, swollen vent, and a blue abdomen + legs. Any ideas for what...
  4. Avadrawzstuff

    What’s wrong with my hen?

    Okay so I walked out into my chicken coop to check up on the girls and I see my hen is tripping over everything looks like she’s trying to lay an egg tail down her butt is full of dried poop head down comb looks purple-Ish and is not at all bright red like it should be she keeps laying down and...
  5. Lumpybeansss

    Silkie with mites

    I have a lovely silkie cockerel and he has got red mite, i noticed them in the coop last summer we have diatomaceous earth and mite powder in the coop, we took apart the coop and torched it, after that we decided to put him and the others in a mainly metal shed, but we haven’t been able to get...
  6. alitachen

    What feeding equipment will you use to raise chicks

    Chick Feeder You need a poultry feeder container to hold the poultry feeds for your birds which makes it easier for them to get to and keeps them from pooping in their food. You can use homemade solutions like old egg cartons, and tissue paper boxes cut in half or you can buy some chick feeders...
  7. Stellasmomma

    Not the breed I purchased so what is it???

    HI !! I thought I was purchasing silver laced Sussex chicks ..... well that is clearly not what I got LOL I got these little cuties they are 5 weeks old now I am hoping someone can tell me what I have here thanks!
  8. EasterChickens

    ‼️HELP‼️ Leghorn hen sick/lethargic?! Possibility of vent gleet?

    Hello everyone, I have a 2 year & 9 month old leghorn hen that just started to show signs of sickness 1 day ago. I'm pretty sure she is not eggbound because she did lay an egg yesterday. She did not lay an egg today though (usually she lays daily). She is still eating and drinking but not as...
  9. J

    WHY My Chickens Comb Is Not Growing?

    I don’t know the exact age of my chicken but she weighs 1.5kg. SHE seems perfectly fine too, no symptoms of any disease. And she is still not laying eggs. What do you think?
  10. K

    My chicken is hiding?

    Hi everyone! So I posted about this yesterday, but I wanted to make a new thread to get more answers. My speckled Sussex is hiding under the coop constantly, she will come out to eat , drink and for treats but she’s under there instead of pecking and scratching during the day. She is in a molt...
  11. K

    Pale comb on speckled Sussex?

    I’m new to chickens and awhile ago I posted about how my speckled Sussex stopped laying. She still hasn’t layed an egg in about 4-5 weeks and I’m really concerned. She is preening, eating, drinking, scratching the ground and everything but I just noticed today how her comb is pink. She has...
  12. W

    Help, chicken poop!

    I have 4 brahmas, one rooster , 3 hens. Probably about 2? Years old I just got them a few months ago. I noticed poop in the run had this red in it??? They're acting normal and fine, none are acting sick, is it age or do I need to get corrid? I don't know which one is doing it. I only see to...
  13. EasterChickens

    !URGENT! Rooster's spur broken and bleeding!

    Hello everyone, I randomly came out to my backyard to check on my rooster and I found that one of his spur's went missing/broken and is bleeding. I'm assuming that his spur got stuck somewhere and therefore it broke. Does anyone know any cures or treatment to this? Please let me know ASAP if you...
  14. oodle

    Chickens when given the choice of water

    Setting: My chickens are outside during a rainy day. They are standing near a nice, fresh, and cool container of clean water specifically for them. They are also near a dirty old hole filled with mud water. My chickens will 100% of time choose to drink the mud water.
  15. ChickenWitch1

    Sick and very lethargic chicken

    My EE bantam roo started acting off about a week ago. He seemed to have less interest in interacting with the other chickens, which is very unusual for him. It started getting worse a few days ago so I brought him inside. He’s eating only a bit, and i’m giving him water through an eye dropper...
  16. G

    Chicken acting really weird? Temporary sickness or serious disease?

    My pet chicken has been acting weird since yesterday. Yesterday I noticed she was slow (not moving around as much), she also seemed very tired, I assumed she didn't sleep well the night before and just needed to sleep some more. But today it's the same thing, Shes slow/lethargic (slow to react...
  17. ChickenWitch1

    Chicken gasping for air and shaking neck/head?

  18. ChickenWitch1

    Hookworms in chickens?

    I lost a chicken a couple days ago to what I thought was gapeworms. She had all the symptoms of it. Another chicken started showing the same symptoms so I took her to the vet yesterday and they tested her feces. They said she does not have gapeworms, but hookworms? Does anyone know what the...
  19. ChickenWitch1

    Help?! Sick chicken with head hanging to the side?

    Please someone help. I have a hen, around 15 weeks old. She started acting oddly a few days ago, being very lethargic, gasping for air, and not eating much. We thought it might be the heat, and brought her inside for a few days. I checked her crop to see if it’s impacted and it’s not. Now about...
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