chicken illness

I have a hen that had poo stuck all over her vent and the feathers below. I noticed she had (and still has) an awful smell and she looks like she is struggling to poop, she kinda squats down and makes a sound. Her poo is like dark oval(ish) balls. Ive been giving her epsom salt baths, but I cant...

My 1 year old roo has fowl pox- I’m almost certain of it. Started off with a cyst on his eye along with multiple bumps on his comb and waddles. He separated most of the time for breeding purposes. After a week of noticing it, it’s now covered all of his head skin. Is there anything I can do...

hello everyone, this is my first post here, and I figured I’d get more help than what I’d get from reddit or some other site. Just yesterday I adopted a 7 week old guinea from a family friend. I adopted it because it was obviously very sick, and the friend didn’t have time to care for it. Moving...

I have 18 chickens and 7 ducks plus one turkey. This afternoon while feeding them I noticed one of my smaller hens had a bloody, almost plug protruding from her bum. She was picking at it and around the area so I cleaned her entire bum as best I could but am still worried as she continues to...

Hi, I rescued 5 girls from a hen rescue today and when I got the girls home, I noticed that one had a rather swollen back end! Does anyone know what this could be!? I am totally stumped as I am a first time chicken owner! Any advice would be great! Thanks!

Hi all, I have a 6 1/2 month old hen (my favorite, incidentally) that is acting very lethargic. She’s in a flock of 11 and all the others are acting normally. I’ve been out of town for a week and have only been back for two days, so I don’t know how long this has been going on. Last night I...

My grandparents had two chickens, one of which got sick. They don't really know what they are doing so we took the chicken home (a little Australorp bantam) to nurse it back to health. We kept it completely separate from my chooks, in a cat carrier. We washed our hands very well every time. I...

I have 6 chicks (Plymouth rocks and wyandottes) and I found this poop on their heat mat this morning. This is my third brood, and I have never had an issue with coccidiosis in any of my adult chickens, or chicks before... So I don't really know what I am doing... I have begun adding coccidiostat...

my favorite hen got attacked by a opossum 2 nights ago. It got her by the wing and body and the bone on the wing is exposed. We got her right away and flushed the wounds with peroxide, irrigated them to get the debris out, rubbed betadine on them and finished off with triple antibiotic cream...