chicken diseases

  1. EvieChickenGirl

    🦠 New Castle Disease ⚠️ Back for ya'll?? 🧐

    Hi! I've been raising chickens for forever now and a couple of years ago about 2020ish New Castle struck and killed 3 birds in my flock....just last week on THANKSGIVING DAY my 1 and a half year old Rhode Island Red died with similar symptoms. She was sick 4 days before she died but she wasn't...
  2. R

    White Growth on Comb

    Please help me find out what is going on. Pictures are out of my Americana over a year old and I thought this white growth was just poop on her comb, but she has started to stagger to one side. Seems a bit disoriented. And the only thing I’ve noted different is that she has this white growth.I...
  3. M

    Lazy chicken?

    I’m concerned my chicken might have mareks disease. She can walk. But just prefers to lay on her side. But not in the way the chickens do when they sun themselves. She just prefers to lay down and eat her food etc. I’m not sure how she would have gotten in. She is in with a vaccinated hen and...
  4. CDC Links Salmonella "Outbreak" To BYChickens

    CDC Links Salmonella "Outbreak" To BYChickens

    According to the American Center for Disease Control (CDC) there is currently an "Outbreak" of salmonella poisoning in the USA. The CDC posted their conclusions, May 16, 2019, on their official website found here: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/backyardpoultry-05-19/index.html READ THIS...
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  5. Marie7

    Chickens ticks

    Hello every one, my name is Marie and I'm new to thisforum, I found it after putting a questions regarding ticks on the internet. I wanted to share some pictures of a problem I discover recently on my chicken and I believe are ticks. My hens which one die and another 2 was eaten by a racoon few...
  6. LemonyCatapult

    Pullet with strange symptoms, seemingly healthy

    I have a 6 month old pullet with a strange backstory. So she hatched from my two Easter Eggers and was always quite small for her age. When she was 3.5 months old, her feet got severe frost bite and she lost all her toes. She has lived in our house since but has been showing weird symptoms since...
  7. my2sweetpeas

    New to the Hen House

    Hi name is Anna. I have twin girls and we recently decided to venture into backyard chickens. It's a family adventure but the chicks are mostly the girls. But right now, I am doing the "dirty work" of cleaning their brooder and taking care of their water, the girls feed unless the container...
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