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  1. R

    Chicken suddenly stopped walking and lays down on side 24/7

    Hello! I’m posting this for a friend of mine, his chicken Bonnie (red sex link, 2-3 months), suddenly stopped walking. At first it was limping but now she just lays down unmoving. Sometimes she wakes up and is active but others she is very lethargic (like in the picture attached). He’s very...
  2. T

    Dehydrated Hen - PLEASE HELP!

    Hi there everyone, During a rush to get to class I had forgotten to take out the plug in my watering apparatus for my hens. Long story short they were without water for a day and a half. I feel like and idiot and still can’t believe I made this mistake. Fortunately, all but one of the flock...
  3. C

    AMPUTATION!!! need advice please !!

    Hello, so it's been an ongoing battle treating my rooster's foot. He's got arthritis in his right leg, and on top of that he lost some toes due to frostbite this last winter. I've been dressing the wound since and it was looking better for a while, and he got around just fine, but recently it's...
  4. B

    Serious illness? Coccidiosis?

    Hello all, really hoping for some guidance. I posted before about my chicken, Randy (House Chicken Randy we like to call her now). We thought: fight? Coccidiosis? Worms? Mites? Impacted/sour crop? All have been treated for, and this is now day 25 of her showing illness. Symptoms currently...
  5. B_o

    Lethargic chick!!!!

    I recently got 8 chicks, one passed and another is acting weird. She has been balled up with her eyes closed almost all day. She still moves here and there and sometimes she stands in one place. I have searched around and saw i can give her egg yolk nd sugar water, ive been doing that since...
  6. J

    Doughy Crop

    I have a hen who is about a year old. Her crop is not wanting to empty as it should. It feels kind of doughy and I can also feel food stuck in it. I don't think it's sour. She is still pooping normally. I've been feeding her soft mushy foods to keep her from getting malnourished. They seem to be...
  7. L

    Goose egg help please newbie!

    Please help! This is our first “breeding” season for our geese. Mumma laid 6 eggs, we are down to 4. She is incubating them herself, not in an incubator. From what I can understand these are fertile due to the shadow/air sack? Or were at some point. She started sitting on the night of 6th of...
  8. LongLiveChickens

    Chicken with Coccidiosi? Please help

    Recently one of my baby chicken about 1-3 weeks old has been pooping blood. Is this Coccidiosis? how would i treat it? please help! (another thing my chick has been doing is yawning alot and usually standing with eyes closed.)
  9. B

    Rooster run over by lawn mower

    My rooster, Bobbo, was accidentally run over by a lawn mower today while it was backing up. It is a Club Cadet tractor mower. I looked at the many feathers he lost, and there wasn’t any blood. He has an eye infection that he is taking medicine for, and the eye has some blood in it. He can walk...
  10. Nona_1808

    Please help :( my pet chick has been limping

    This is my pet chick Soufflé, a salmon faverolle… I’ve been taking of all my chicks equally, never dropped them and always made sure they ate and drank enough. She does have 3 sisters from different mothers but she was never bullied or messed with… all google will tell me she could have a foot...
  11. K

    HELP!! Hen might have Salmonella!!

    Earlier this week I have made another thread of my sick hen, and came to the conclusion that she might have Salmonella. She is not really eating and was drinking lots of water. Actually she may not even drinking that much water now, probably because I put garlic in it. Her comb is droopy and she...
  12. K

    Is this a barred Cochin?

    Hi! I just joined this page and am in need of assistance. I bought what I thought was a pullet at buccheits today and now am thinking that is a young rooster. Also what breed is this? I already have one rooster and 5 laying hens. 3 more aren’t laying yet, I also bought those today. Will my...
  13. MimiRatt

    Auto-Door Opener for Big Birds

    I’m raising brahmas and Jersey giants, and I want an automatic coop door so they don’t have to wait for me to go outside at 11:00 AM to get adequate free range time and fresh air. Any auto door suggestions that are good for big birds? Solar, preferably, but battery powered would be good also. I...
  14. Summer_

    Excessive amount of Ants in duck coop

    hey so um how can I control ants…? They made it into our duck coop and there are way too many. You know how on those nature shows they show ants but there are so many you can’t see anything else below them? That’s what is happening on a section of the coop. It’s where the ducks like to rest...
  15. A

    Is my 5 week old duck lonely?

    Hi so on May 5th I saved a baby mallard duckling that was being chased by a cat (had to be around 4 days old when I saved him) ever since then he imprinted on me and loves to be around me. He is starting to get his color in so I know it a boy but he paces back and forth in his cage. I know that...
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  16. -Shade-

    EMERGENCY! HELP! Chicken with bloody vent.

    One of my chickens has a very bloody vent. A couple of weeks ago I had a chicken from the same coop have a blowout, and she died. This chicken--her name is Duds-- has been laying bloody eggs the past several days, and nothing I did seemed to be helping. She now has what looks like a blood clot...
  17. Tarynj

    Shaking heads and death

    Ugh help! About a week ago we had a chickens attacked by a fox. She was saved and doing fine but until we catch the fox we have them locked in their runs instead of free roaming. Sometime in the week they started shanking their heads like something was bothering them! I though perhaps they have...
  18. V

    PLEASE HELP! MY 2 week CHICKEN IS LIMPING!

    please help me, my 2 week old Rhode Island Red chicken is limping on one foot. The foot the chick is not using is always clamped and closed and also has some kind of black dots! i can not tell if it’s a boy or a girl I think girl considering it’s fur is uneven and a little Chucky, this chick has...
  19. Z

    HELP! My chickens are sick and I don't know what to do! *PICS*

    Hey guys, I have a flock of 16 birds, some of them are 3yo and others are just turning 1yo. I've hand raised them since babies all myself. I've never had any medical issues with them up until now and I don't know what is going on. They haven't had a change in environment or food. I've never...
  20. CaliFarmsAR

    Help please!!!! Can Club foot and a joint infection be treated?!?!??

    Hey y’all! I need some help/advance here. I just started working at an equestrian barn and they have a 5 year old horses and he has Club foot and got a joint infection from the vet (they didn’t do the injection right). Can this be treated? If so what is the best way to? And after he recovers...
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