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  1. A

    PLEASE RESPOND, NEED HELP

    I’m really concerned and I don’t quite know what to do. Please any sort of help will be appreciated. My hen (spotted sussex) recently hasn’t been active. Tonight I found her laying in the middle of the yard, while all the other hens were settled in the coop for “bed time” and it caused me to be...
  2. TheBirdBabe

    Hen with poopy butt & sluggish

    I have a hen that has just been acting... off. She has had some runny poo that's now stuck on her feathers. Also, she's been acting sluggish. Still eating & drinking, but she's walking with her tail pointed down instead of up, like all my other girls. 🤔 I don't entirely blame her, it's been in...
  3. Jeniferb

    I have a Sick chicken please advise

    I have a 2yr old Red Hybrid type of chicken. She stopped laying a couple months ago. Her last egg was a giant egg with no yolk. She has lost a lot of weight so her breast bone is protruding otherwise. I’ve noticed her looking a bit off a few days ago, a bit scruffy but acting normally...
  4. C

    Help my turkey Pults are fighting

    We had one turkey poult born about 4 days ago, and another born today. Seems healthy, don’t trust mom. First one, Sampson, wont stop attacking his new baby brother. Pecking at his face, chasing him. Does anyone know how I can make him stop?
  5. DuckDuckRooster

    Problematic legs.. please help!

    I have a 3 year old sultan rooster and he's been very healthy up to a few months ago when his legs started to look odd. Kind of dry. I put Vaseline on but it did not help. It continued progressing and now his legs are all raised and red and swollen. One toe is terribly swollen. He has been to...
  6. M

    [EMERGENCY] Duck hatched an egg, we don't know what to do

    Hi, so I have a Male Welsh Harlequin who turns 11 in July and a Female Saxony thats about 2-3. We never expected them to hatch any young, but I heard peeps from the nest she sits on, and now I'm scrambled figuring out what to do. We have raised ducklings before but never beyond the nest. We need...
  7. Y

    Chick with eyes closed and chirping after assisted hatch

    Hey everyone, I've been lurking on byc for awhile and deicided to make an account because of my situation, I assisted a chick that was malpositioned and a little stuck, everything went well but they're just laying there chirping with its eyes closed, its been 3 hours and sometimes it trys to get...
  8. DuckTheChicken

    HELP Botulism? Heat stroke?

    I have an older female who seems very weak is throwing her head around and wobbling. Her eyes seem cloudy I have a flock of eight and she’s the only one like this. I’m not sure what to do I have her separated the best I can. Any advice I have no clue what’s going on. I haven’t really been...
  9. V

    Sick and Dying Chicks and Turkey Chicks

    One week ago my 10 assorted chicks got delivered from Meyer Hatchery via the post office (2days old). I also went to my local feed store Runnings and purchased 6 Turkey chicks (about 1 wk old). All seemed to be going well the first day I noticed one of the Turkeys had pastey butt so warm wet...
  10. Hatcher1997

    Please help me! Do I go to sleep and leave it or make a hole?

    Hello, I’m on day 32 of hatching a muscovy egg. Thursday around 4pm I candled the egg before placing into the incubator to lockdown. (Day 30) This is it here on that day… Today is Saturday 3am (day 32) and I’m so worried. Because I’ve been told that first video it hadn’t pipped, and I’ve been...
  11. Countryhippie

    Strange Breathing Tonight - Please Help

    I was hanging out with my girls right before bed and they were all running around playing and I gave them a dish of their feed with water mixed in (so mash). Then I put them to bed and all was normal. I then looked on my camera to see if they had all settled down and then I see they are all like...
  12. D

    EMERGENCY! Muscovy Nest Emptied. Can The Eggs be Put Back?

    Writing this fast, so pardon any grammar errors. This is the situation: Late this March, Jamboree (my female duck of a drake-hen pair) began laying, and soon after became broody. I don't know if she had ever laid/hatched before since I bought her as an adult, but she was super faithful about...
    • DuckyMolly
    • Thread
    • broody duck disturbed nest emergencies emergency muscovy muscovy eggs muscovy nest
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  13. The ChickInn egg supply

    Help! Chickens with bald spots and enlarged red crop

    I’ve been noticing my hens have places where there feathers are just broken off and plain bald spots. One doesn’t have a tail either just the heads of feathers trying to grow. Another has a very bright red crop with no feathers and I don’t know why. I will attach pics. I can’t see any bugs...
  14. J

    EMERGENCY Chicken attacked by dog, open wound

    Our new pup got a hold of one of our chickens today. He tore through her feathers and skin. There doesn’t appear to be any bleeding, but her muscles/fat are exposed. Wound is about the size of a baseball just below her neck. I am a first time chicken owner and this is the first wound we have...
  15. cvlcite

    PLEASE HELP! Lethargic chicken

    Hello I’m sorry but please can anyone help me out? I have a chicken (I’ve been told she’s a red sex link and I don’t know her age) and today when I got home I let her out of the run and into my yard (which is mostly brick) and she went to go scratch at a corner with some dirt. I go inside for an...
  16. C

    Hen tipping over

    I have a hen that keeps tipping over. Only to one side. She can stand and walk some but if she tips over its hard for her to get upright again. It’s sort of like she can’t get her foot up under her. I right away thought the worst and started checking for symptoms of merek’s. She does not have...
  17. AChickenBoi

    3 year old hen is acting sickly. Help!

    Rocky, my 3 year old blue rock hen, has shown very worrying signs recently. Her comb is floppy and pale on the edges, she is lethargic, her tail is down, and she is hiding. Before, I found her drinking mass amounts of water, looking very pale and ill. When I forced her to purge the contents of...
  18. G

    Duck not getting along with ducklings

    I have an older male duck thats almost a year, he was paired with another male duck so they werent lonely. One of my ducks was killed so now my duck Melman is by himself. We bought 4 other ducklings so he could have amore friends. The first two are arpund 4 and 5 weeks and the second batch is 3...
    • Gigib
    • Thread
    • duckling ducks emergency not getting along
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. D

    Vent/butt bleeding from excessive pecking.. help!

    These two turkey chicks had their vents absolutely destroyed by their turkey-chick-mates! Where do I even start? I separated them from others. I got the bleeding to stop with blood quick stopper. Now what?
  20. HostileMatron

    Egg too small, duckling pipped, struggling to breathe, no noise, day 28 - pic attached

    My horror story is in full swing and I could use some advice. I've got an egg on day 28 without enough room to move and it seems that he's beginning to struggle to breathe. Backstory: My 8 month old Rouen duck (fostered her and her 4 brothers since 4wks) started laying eggs in February. I built...
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