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Good morning, Our sweet girl Darcy, a beautiful 2 years old flower hen, seemed a bit off end of March (I think it was around 23rd) and after examining her, we found an egg inside her. The problem was, she did not lay an egg for about a week at this moment and therefore we started treating her...

my hen mabel, six years old, is acting very unlike herself. she is at the top of the pecking order and never gets bullied; we also don’t have a rooster. she has been showing every sign of sickness: lethargy, depressed appetite, hiding, and unusual posture. she never ran when i approached her and...

Hello, everyone! I've spent far too long reading posts on here trying to figure out what's wrong with my hen, so I decided to post and get advice for my specific situation. My Dominique hen yesterday started exhibiting lethargy; she was standing around away from the flock. She didn't seem super...

I have a baby chick that needed assistance hatching a couple days ago. The first 2 days the chick had trouble standing up and walking but now it is fine but ever since hatching it hasn't been eating or drinking on it's own. We have to force feed it by dipping it's beak into the water and putting...

So Pötyike, my silkie hen (10 months old) started to peck at her water (video hopefully included), and she seemingly has trouble with drinking. Otherwise she is doing fine, surprised me with an egg this morning too (though it had a tiny blood stain on it), ate mealworms, it doesn’t seem that he...

My chickens (small flock - 4 girls) - seem to be obsessed with drinking the nastiest water they can find. I completely clean and fill their water dispenser with clean water every morning, but they're only interested in that water if they can't find anything else. If there's rain runoff, they...

I have 4 quails in a cage that could easily fit more but they aren’t eating much food or water but they are fine, so is there a problem? We are in August New Zealand the last month of winter

Red Sexlinks Drinking

Long story: I have looked everywhere and have done what I can, but I'm still very concerned. On April 3rd, i rolled a log, and my hen ran under before I could stop it. I should have checked before doing so, and i feel so guilty about it. :( It was a small, thin log, but it was still pretty...

My 3 year old hen who is usually super excited about being fed was very unenthusiastic yesterday about feeding time. throughout the day she became lethargic. today she didnt want to eat at all and has been lethargic, and drinking a lot. She has started eating again, but i don't know what is...

Basically after advice, I had 2 lots of chicks hatch at the same time in the same place...to 5 different mums! So I have a chicken pen with a shed inside, my chickens managed to hatch chicks in opposite corners of the shed. I didn’t think they’d hatch tbh but on Saturday morning a little chick...

Hey everyone! This is my first post. I picked my chicks up yesterday, they had been born earlier that morning. I got them home and they seem happy but I can’t get them to drink anything! They’re eating a couple crumbs everything 6 or so hours that are laid out on a paper towel near the feeder...

Hi all! I’m hoping I can get some answers and insight from more experienced duck owners. I have 4 runner girls, about 5 months old. 2 of them just started laying this week (not sure which 2). As of today, I noticed one of my girls just not acting herself. Kind of going off on her own, not...

Hi, All. So sweet Martha, one of our six silver Appleyard ducks, has always had a very distinctive way of drinking as seen in this video (Martha is on the right behind Mouse, our all-white silver Appleyard): We've always thought it was adorable, but we recently begun wondering if it was...

Hi, This morning I noticed one of my hens was sitting in a corner all by her self. I went to pick her up and she just let me no noise or anything. I checked and one of her eyes is shut. She is very lethargic and keeps falling asleep. Her breathing is slow and heavy but she is drinking. She...

We have 70 birds on our farm and recently relocated them to the barn for the winter. We also switched up their waterers to a heated waterer. The waterers they had all summer had a green base and were gravity fed. The new ones had a red base and are also gravity fed. We realized the hens weren't...

I have 15 eight month old pullets. Great egg layers, all healthy etc. Cold weather is here where I live so during our winter preps we purchased a metal double wall waterer and the warmer to go underneath it. We were using the red bottom plastic 3 gallon waterer before that. I put the metal...

Hi, A couple of weeks ago i was sipping a nice warm cup of herbal tea (Yes, tea can be for young people aswell), And then i left to do some chicken related work.... And forgot about my tea, It was cold and old. So i decided to put in a bowl and give it to my chickens. And what do you know! My...

The chick seems to be really strong, but unfortunately it's a lone ranger so far. I dipped its beak in sugar water, but it hasn't eaten or drank on its own yet. Anything I can do??