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    Hard lump in Pullet’s neck! Impacted Crop? Please help.

    This is our Phoebe, a 12-week-old Buff Orpington pullet. Recently, our coop got attacked by an owl and we lost one. Ever since then, Phoebe’s been acting strange (lethargic, quiet, weirdly dilated eyes). We chalked it up to her being traumatized, as we recently learned chickens can get mental...
  2. M

    Rooster bleeding/broken blood feather?

    My rooster was covered in blood yesterday on his left side. I investigated the coop and found nothing that could have caused it so I took him inside to rinse him off and get a better look. There is a big hole that looks like where a large flight feather used to be. I've tried cornstarch, plain...
  3. A

    Bumblefoot?

    I have already posted here before and gotten amazing help, but wanted to know if this is the early stages of bumblefoot, or a fracture mabye. Just for some context she was spooked and maybe attacked by a small cat. I only saw her running away while the cat just stands 5 meters away and after...
  4. B

    Chicken Went Under Coop! Help!!!

    UPDATE!!! We got her out! 🙂 I couldn’t leave her out there tonight because she definitely would’ve gotten eaten; we have a lot of raccoons that have picked off chickens before. It was way too heavy to lift, but we were able to move around some loose cinderblocks underneath of it. I was able to...
  5. C

    Hello fellow chicken lovers

    Hello everyone, I am Bell I love to use this site and reference and learning guide. I’ve joined today to ask one of my own questions. How to improve fertility in Heavy Breed? (Specifically Orpington 50% and Brahma -%) I’ve had great fertility rates with my lighter breed of my three flocks...
  6. M

    HELP! Chicken limping in cold weather WILL DIE SOON!

    Hello, I’m very concerned about one of my chickens (a Buff Orpington, approximately 4 years old and need urgent quickly! This is usually a sign that they will die soon and I really want to do something now! Symptoms: 1. Limping: I noticed she was limping earlier today and sitting down often...
  7. S

    Bantam chicken gaping, but not coughing. Wing held low, possible injury but not sure?

    Hi all! I have a Sebright chicken, around 5 months old, who is giving me some concerns. She is housed in a coop with about a dozen other bantams, (silkies, another sebright, two d’uccles, and a OEGB) as well as our last couple standard birds who are almost ready to join the big-bird-coop. No...
  8. Q

    Duck left behind this winter in southwest Missouri

    Hello all! There is a beautiful medium sized duck that has been left behind by his usual brown and green flock. I’ve lived here for years, I always joke wondering if he/she knows they look different from all the other ducks they hang with — they always leave&come back to the pond but this year...
  9. Chickenwithnobrim

    2 pet chickens down to 1

    Hi all, I have 2 hens as pets that live in a gorgeous coop in my back yard. I've had them for about 4 years and they were already a year or two old when I got them. One I got off the street and took her in and decided to keep her and get her a friend. This was before I knew anything about...
  10. A

    Mites Infection in the Winter | Elector PSP Application

    Hi everyone! My silkies have mites and I want to get these off ASAP. I have elector PSP and I want to spray each of them down and their coop(and clean the coop), but I’m worried to stress them out or to do this application in the cold. I’d try to take them inside to my basement to try to let...
  11. coltgrizzz

    Socializing Timid Alpacas

    Hello all, I have a quick question regarding alpaca socialization. I have never worked with alpacas before so I am a novice. I know basic handling and such but nothing beyond that. I am currently a veterinary student with an interest in large animal medicine. As a part of one of my clubs, i’ve...
  12. RossAcres

    Bantam Cochin with a Sneeze

    Good morning everyone, I bought two young bantam cochins at the Ohio National a few weeks ago. I brought them home, and put them in quarantine. After a day, both had a sneeze and very light gurgling when breathing. I immediately treated them with All-in-One powder, which treats multiple...
  13. 0

    The big question - sex of peafowl?

    Hi all, I have two peachicks that I got about 5 months ago. I’m certain on the sex of one, but still a bit uncertain (perhaps it’s more a little wishful thinking) on the other. They’re both roughly 6 months old (exact date of hatching unknown) I was hoping for a male black shouldered and...
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  14. M

    Quail SOS

    Hello, This is my first time hatching out a lot of quail. I had one that fell into its water. The dish the water is in is a very low dish so they don’t drown. But one fell into it and got wet. It was placed in an incubator to warm up again and it seemed to be doing fine until I saw its...
    • Maka
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    • baby quail injured chick #1 chick help help quail quail help save baby quail sos
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Quail
  15. E

    Is Avi-Vital Safe for my Ducklings?

    I have had a very bad run with my poor Cayuga Ducklings, so I want to be sure before giving them anything I'm not certain will help or worse, hurt them. Being in Australia, its incredibly difficult to find any of the specific supplement brands often brought up here for Ducks. So I was hoping for...
    • emilyanderson
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    • help sick duckling supplements walking issues
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    • Forum: Ducks
  16. GoldyLocks93

    URGENT Rooster with CRD or Gapeworms?

    Hello all. I have a 3 month old rooster I hatched from my flock (which is making this even harder for me). He’s a mixture of a lot of things, I really couldn’t tell you what he is specifically. He’s maybe 5 pounds at most. Yesterday, I found him in the corner of the cage by himself with his...
  17. V

    Update to my last post -URGENT

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/possible-egg-bound-urgent.1645754/post-28147919 She has since pooped since posting, I've been giving her mineral oil so does this look normal? She's getting worse 😭 😔
  18. E

    Help Winterizing Ideas for my chicken barn!

    Hey everyone! I live in the Yukon and am a little late winterizing the barn. The snow came beginning of October and I have been having a really hard time figuring out how I can make the barn warmer this winter. It seems no matter what we have done the last few years each of our roosters and hens...
  19. J

    Any rough idea of gender?

    11 weeks old, pretty sure I have three females and one male but I'm worried about these tail feathers starting to arch! Please give me good news!
  20. M

    Something is seriously wrong

    Hello, I am hatching eggs. They were shipped to me and I have a feeling something was wrong because the shipping was delayed and they shipped when it was colder. Not to mention if something says fragile it’s not always handled as such. I made a post a while ago, about how strange the air sacs...
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