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  1. M

    Swollen Eye

    My hen has a very swollen eye. Any thoughts on the cause?? She’s behaving normally and doesn’t have any other respiratory symptoms. Flushed with saline. Do I have to have a prescription to do antibiotics?? Please advise!! We’ve had backyard chickens for almost 5 years and never run into this...
  2. B

    Lethargic pullet around laying age

    Hi all, new chicken owner! We have a flock of 10, 2 laying hens and 8 that are around 20 weeks old. One of the laying hens, Lucy, has suddenly stopped laying eggs but still sits in the nesting box everyday, sometimes going back multiple times but its been about 4 days since she's laid, but...
  3. R

    Help!! Chicken won’t lift her head. Will die soon

    Hello! I’m looking for guidance and information. I lose 2 to 3 chickens this way every year, chicken begins not pulling her head up and turns into lethargic and plucking her own feathers out. Checked for mites, lice, and warms with no signs. They go like this for three or four days and then they...
  4. W

    New pullet indication of CRD, should I just introduce her?

    Hi everyone, I just got my first Leghorn pullet, two months old, arriving yesterday evening. The moment I took her out of the box, I noticed raspiness in her chirps as if she has a phlegmy throat as well as similiar sound from her chest, like a vibration. I would describe it as a snotty nose...
  5. E

    Swollen dry face, weird looking eye, help! :(

    Hello everyone, help needed. We have a young rooster (4-5 months old), who has been sick maybe for a month already. Last month i saw that is eye was looking weird, it was bubbling, i posted the photos here, got some replies that it could be coryza or mycoplasma. At first i tried to give some eye...
  6. D

    Sick chickens 2 died within a week.

    hey everyone, So I have a flock of 20 chickens 2 roosters 14 weeks in that flock. Then I have a separate flock of 10 roosters. My flock ranges from 20 weeks to 14 weeks with 1 hen a year old. All came from hatching eggs except I bought 9 deathlayer roos as day old to three day old chicks. 4...
  7. quailrescuer

    Bumps on rescue quails' beaks for over 8 weeks

    I noticed one of our rescue quails, "Autumn", with a big bloody bump on her beak in late May. We separated her shortly after. A couple weeks later, another one of our girls, "Summer", developed a much smaller black bump. They're currently living together, isolated from the rest of the flock...
  8. poola80

    Signs in a dying chicken

    I have a Golden Laced Wyandotte who’s around 8 years old. For the past two years, she’s been dealing with respiratory issues — mainly a puffy face and bubbly eyes. Even after multiple rounds of medication and antibiotics she hasn’t recovered. Despite these ongoing symptoms, she’s continued to...
  9. B

    Unknown Death-Help

    Discovered this girl in our woods after arriving back home. No puncture wounds or blood from what I can see, hardly any feather loss. A few feathers about 3 yards away but majority of them are in the photo pictured. Our dog who is normally outside was inside during the potential time of death...
  10. A

    My 3-year-old hen died suddenly. Please help.

    One of my 5 hens, Molly, died suddenly yesterday. The day before, she had been acting completely normal, but then yesterday she started acting strangely. About an hour after we noticed, she died. First, she was lying down in the doorway of the coop and visibly drooling, while her eyes were...
  11. G

    Sick Chick

    One of my thirty 8 week old chicks has diarrhea and has for the past 5-6weeks. I started giving it electrolytes as soon as I noticed it was sick but it hasn’t improved. It doesn’t seem to be lethargic and eats and drinks regularly as far as I can tell. Any diagnosis or suggested treatment...
  12. Livia Ammon

    My Flock has Mites/Fleas

    I have a main flock of 13 hens and a rooster. I’ve gotten 4 healthy looking hens, but on closer examination I realized they had mites. I dosed them all with 1.5 ml of ivermectin cattle drench. Later in the evening I was putting up my main flock and gave them a handful of grass. One of them...
  13. Livia Ammon

    New Chickens

    Hey all! I just got 4 new 2 yo hens from a woman who couldn’t take care of them any longer. They are a pair of white leghorns, a Barnie and an EE/Americauna. Usually when I get new chickens I get chicks, so I din’t know much about quarantine procedures. I also don’t know what to check for so...
  14. B

    Very weird stool yesterday…

    We’ve been noticing the chicks pooping with some red in there stool, and it seemed like everything was pointing to shed intestinal lining. The thing is, the poops like that happen almost everyday, and one of our chickens hasn’t grown much compared to the others. A vet friend (in training) of...
  15. Ohio Duck

    Adding new chickens after your flock may be carrying a disease? What if the disease is likely present in your soil? (Blackhead)

    Hello, Does anyone have experience bringing in new chickens after dealing with disease in your flock? There's lots of advice for how to avoid bringing sick birds into a healthy flock, but what if your girls are the problem? Over the winter I lost three of my six 4-month old pullets to...
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  16. V

    How long do Coturnix quail female layer’s typically live for?

    I’m curious because I have 12 females for 2 years one just died , no injuries I could see her eyes were shut and feet clenched her feet did appear veiny but she was cold to the touch im sure that’s typically what happens when they die from being pale may she rest in peace,.. how long do your...
  17. C

    Bird flu prevention

    I know that avian influenza is on the rise right now, and I have a backyard flock of 6 chickens that will be a year old this spring. They have a coop and a moderately sized run, but we let them out once a day to free range (usually with supervision) in our small fenced backyard. This might be a...
  18. Layla_Chickens

    What should I give my chicken

    I have a polish rooster, he is still young but I see he’s having problems. When I check his crop it’s never full and I can feel bits of food but very little. He’s also been sneezing a lot. He still pecks the floor as I feed him from the floor but he’s not actually eating anything. He feels very...
  19. F

    Please help

    Hi, I am new here and would appreciate any feedback more experienced chicken folk can give me. I have a red sex link that didn’t seem well four days ago. I went to let my flock out and feed them in the morning and she was standing still and puffed up and would not move. She is eight months old...
  20. RossAcres

    Bantam Cochin with a Sneeze

    Good morning everyone, I bought two young bantam cochins at the Ohio National a few weeks ago. I brought them home, and put them in quarantine. After a day, both had a sneeze and very light gurgling when breathing. I immediately treated them with All-in-One powder, which treats multiple...
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