health issues

Hi all, Yesterday afternoon, I went out to see if the birds were using a new type of water dish I put out for them. It had only been about 5 or so hours. The dish has nipples they have to push to get water. I did catch 4 of the 7 birds and used their beaks to push the nipples so they would...

Hello! I have an old (3.5 y.o. at minimum) quail hen, Tsapa. Shes our little grandma bird, who outlived the rest. She's been getting slower and less active for the past few months, but I chalked it up to old age. She was still able to move, eat, and drink, fine but just napped a lot more. In...

Just a few weeks after nursing my poor girl Little back from what seemed like death's doorstep (coccidiosis and sour crop) I think she now has fowlpox (see pic) - am I right? I've been reading there's no cure so any thoughts on what I can do to keep this girl as healthy as possible would be...

Hi all. I have read many articles and forums to help me deal with what I think is doughy crop in one of my ladies. I have tried what feels like everything to clear it. I've tried the yeast buster recipe, monistat and also flucanozole. The crop remains fuller than it should be and still doughy...

HELP! SUSPECTED SOUR CROP! I suspect sour crop in two of my chickens and I don’t know what to do. They’re crops look larger than normal and feel jiggly and squishy, not hard. One of my chickens crops went down after a couple hours and the other hasn’t. I know sour crop should be treated...

I pre-ordered 100 white American Bresse from Dunlap Hatchery earlier this year, vaccination for Merek’s included, and got my first shipment of 50 day-old chicks in the mail on Friday. 1 DOA, nothing unusual there. I moved them into the brooder with little fanfare and left the DOA out back for...

Hi there, I’ve hatched two geese and they seem to be growing and doing very well until today. They’re a week old today and one of the goslings sounds slightly congested and I’m worried. His third eyelid is slightly covering his eye like dogs or cats when they are sick and he occasionally...

Well, not quite a Bristol chart, but as close as I have found. It hasn’t captured every fecal variation, but it has a lot of good information. Maybe we can build on this and have a “Visual Poo Clearinghouse” for normal and abnormal poop to aid in our hen care...

My silkie hen just started laying but her first eggs have been squishy. When I press down on them they don't break open but crack everywhere and are very pliable and easy to morph into any shape. Does anyone know what's going on?

Helllo everyone. I have come to this website many times with all my questions regarding my flock, but I have yet to get a solid answer for my most puzzling question of all. My hen, Huffy Puffy, wheezes and doesn't cluck or make mutch sound. The weird part, she doesn't have discharge or watery...

When I went to check on my chickens as I usually do, I was looking in the coop and heard what I thought at first to be a seagull! I later found out houwever, that It was our 6-6 1/2 month old Easter egger pullet, Bean. She’s breathing with her mouth open and it sounds raspy. This is definitely...

4-5 week old silkie chick. Developed small wound weeks ago assumed from pecking dispute due to small brooder. Only two chicks in brooder. Both placed in very large brooder, site cleansed and Neosporin, and no pick applied. Feathers appeared to be filling back in, 3 days ago feathers spear to be...

My buff laced brahma cockerel is almost 5 months old and has some odd feathers. I'm not sure why, maybe it's genetic (inbreeding or note purebred?) maybe it's a health issue, tried looking through old posts and couldn't find anything like this. A little history on him. I got him and his...

One of our four black ameraucana chicks we got two and a half weeks ago has recently had issues eating and I'm unsure as to the cause. She has been repeatedly getting food stuck pretty tight in the right side of her beak the previous two days(which we have cleaned out several times now in hopes...

We have a 2 month old chick who we noticed hasn't been good over the past few days, so we took it in and started force feeding it electrolytes (with water). Then it got worse and had the flesh sticking out which we assumed is prolapse. We've been giving it epsom salt baths to help with that and...

My family recently bought 4 chicks (peahens we believe), Two of them have a darker coloring and a red beak, where as the other two are yellow with black stripes and orange beaks. Their feathers seem to be coming in a bit slower, they are 2 weeks old. I just want to know if this is a danger to...

From the few experiences I've had growing chickens I've had more health issues with any chickens bought from a feed store thus from a large hatchery, than the ones we've hatched either from our neighbors hens or our own. Maybe this is more of a hybrid vigor factor since those hatched with us or...

My pigeon has multiple nodules over the beak and the surrounding the eyes. They are of variable size. It cannot fly but can walk well.Is it a pox or what? How this condition can be treated?

I recently noticed my 8 month old roo have saliva whenever he eats. This only occurs when he eat so there is excess saliva and he can’t eat the food. I don’t think it’s a crop issue, because the previous day he did eat some and when I felt his crop on the morning it was empty. In his mouth I did...

Hi there, I have 7 chickens. 4 out of my 7 chickens have runny poop. Which makes them have runny poppy butts. They are 10 months old. They are on Purina premium Layena crumbles from tractor supply. I also feed them their crushed egg shells and purina poultry grit. I give them my bread scraps, my...