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  1. PeeppeepXO

    pleaseeee tell me this is a female barred rock sapphire 🙏🏼🙏🏼

    very docile. fits in with all the groups. but was attacked almost beheaded as a baby. please someone give me hope, i’m terrified to give him away.. to people idk. especially if i can’t visit and anyone can say they’ll send pics but will they really send pics in a week or a month??? i’ve joined...
  2. PeeppeepXO

    can anyone tell me the gender of these guys?? i just let them out of the coop today.

    first day out of the coop. bit stressed. bowl of food and water outside the coop. hoping they wonder around. pretty big size, about a month ish or more old. theres 2 more that aren’t as big, but still big. just not as big that i’m comfortable with. anyone super experienced on male or...
  3. PeeppeepXO

    please help me identify if this is a male or female hysterical. I’m praying it’s a female...

    What’s your opinion? Please be honest I greatly appreciate it I know the wings are blended in because his name is Gabriel, Gabriel is all white, if there’s anyway, I can take a better picture for any of you to tell the gender. Please let me know. Good luck and thank you so so so much!!
  4. U

    chick sneezing - looking for advice

    Like the title says my chick has been sneezing on occasion(I notice it usually 1-2 times every 20-30ish minutes).. I know sneezing can be a sign for a handful of illnesses but it can also just be harmless and caused by dust or other irritants. There are no other symptoms from what I can tell...
  5. Omelette-in-progress

    Stubborn broody hen is shaking

    Hello, My 8 month frizzle Pekin bantam has been broody for around 2 and a half weeks now (Possibly more as we were on holiday) and although I have so far tried... Removing all bedding from nest box Putting ice bricks (covered) in the nest box Both of the above simultaniously Repeatedly...
  6. C

    Chick’s back is featherless?

    This one hatched yesterday and looked like this today. What do we do? How do we help them? Any advice is appreciated. This is one of our silkie chicks, hatched with a piece of shell stuck to their back if that's any correlation. We think they may have rubbed the feathers off, they were still wet...
  7. xKaitlin

    Any hope for aggressive drake?

    Hello everyone, I am a 21 yr old pet duck keeper and I currently have 5 ducks and 1 drake. 3 of the girls grew up with the drake and my cayuga is very attached to him. After coming back from holidays 2 months ago, I found that he had taken his daughters feathers all off her neck, chest and...
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  8. U

    looking for advice on raising a rejected chick

    Hello! So for some context my neighbors have loose chickens in their yard (they sometimes fly over the fence into MY yard and I occasionally find them laying eggs in my shrubbery) that recently hatched out some eggs on my side of the fence and this chick was rejected by its mother in my yard...
  9. 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...
  10. E

    Swollen eye, help!

    Hello everyone, out little chicken has a red eye, she almostalways keeps it closed, although sometimes she opens it. It started maybe 3 days ago, i have been cleaning the eye everyday, but i dont know why this couldve happened. Is this some sort of a respitory infection? She is acting fine...
  11. Chicken_Trainer2007

    Is he sick? His comb is getting darker

    I have a four and a half month old serama rooster and this morning he looked bad, hes been eating and drinking, his body feels fine. Hes been hunched over and NOT running around with his brother(like normal) he doesn’t have any injuries, but he was attacked by a dog a month ago could it be that...
  12. T

    Help - Hard lump on left center breast

    My chicken is lethargic and has a large boney protrusion on left center, not the right so don’t know if it is a crop problem. He is just standing there and seems to be breathing hard because her tail feathers and vent are moving rhythmically. What is it and what do I do? She did just poop but no...
  13. M

    Chicken Lice in Canada

    I’ve just discovered tonight that my chicken had lice 🙁 I have two chickens total, I havn’t checked the other one however I plan on treating both regardless. I’ve looked up other threads on how to treat and what not, however I am located in Canada, which means product availability is...
  14. someonewholovesgeese

    hello- do you know where i can get geese?

    hi everyone, do you know where i could get some geese here in South Australia? I have called SAPA and the rare poultry breeds association with no luck. i am after embden, roman tufted, pilgrim/australian settler or sebastopol geese.
  15. Arellacorn

    Guinea fowl not able to fly

    So my guinea has been having trouble flying, usually at night they go into a tree above the coop but lately she has been sleeping in the pen with my chickens, also they like going into my neighbors’s garden (my neighbor loves them) but she hasn’t been able to get over the fence. I did throw her...
  16. Chicken_Trainer2007

    HELP ME EGG BOUND?!

    I think my hen is egg bound she layed a egg in the barn hall and yesterday layed a wrinkled egg and that night she was restless in the nesting box, this morning she was laying on the floor
  17. Chickeeaholic

    Help please! Past white poop, lethargy and making sounds

    I don’t have a vet to take my chicken to around here. I need help figuring out what is wrong with my hen. She is my favorite and such a sweet girl. A few days ago she started laying around. It’s been raining a lot so I figured it was respiratory. I started her on Tylan three days ago. She is...
  18. biscotti

    Help figuring out duck bill Injury please!

    Hi everyone! I haven't been on here in a while, but I need some imput from more experienced bird people. I noticed this the other day on my runner duck and I was able to wrangle him for a photo tonight. Is this something I should worry a lot about like an infection, or more likely aftermath from...
  19. E

    Need help with canker problem

    Hello everyone, i have a chicken that has canker. I know that some of farmers use acidified copper sulfate, but i dont have it, and i cant buy anything because there are no vets in my country that are specified in chickens + most of the shops that i get recommended do not ship to my country. I...
  20. sillyduckz

    rat bite injury

    hi all! today my duck Pickles managed to get in a tussle with a rat. i'm not exactly sure what transpired, but i was alerted to a loud honk and found her standing near the entrance/exit of a small rat hole near her coop. judging by her injury, it seems she was likely poking around in there and...
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