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Hey guys! I have a little sebright chicken and I’m not sure if it’s a rooster or hen. I love how small this chicken is! I read somewhere that male and female sebrights have similar feathers so they are hard to sex that way! The comb on this chicken is not red at all and hasn’t gotten red. 3.5...

Hi everyone. We are first time chicken owners and built our coop following some plans we found online from the Tangled Nest. We have three hens. We insulated our coop with foam sheets and styrofoam panels with reflective backings. The walls are layered: wood siding on exterior, then the...

Hi everyone I have a sick quail and have to wait to see the vet and wanting to know how to help her in the meantime. This quail has gotten herself sick by repeatedly dunking her whole head in water when she goes for a drink. I didnt know she was doing this until i saw that her white feathers...

One of our chickens in Colorado seem to not be growing back their feathers. They eat good, drink water, lay eggs, poop , etc like normal but seems to have bald spots with no new feathers sprouting. We have no roosters and have not seen this chicken or other chickens picking out their feathers...

Hey guys. So basically I have an Easter egger Roy who is extremely attached to a rooster we have. We have to get rid of the rooster as we are not allowed to have a rooster. Initially we thought the rooster was a hen because It didn’t crow on time and acted very hen like. They acted this way...

I have two problems, a chick just hatched he has a string of membrane still attached to him, and he seems to be frantic, and he has some whitish stuff in a clump hanging off his behind. And 2 the humidity just spiked, I'm trying to bring it down without cooling the chick so much that he dies...

MY BABY CHICK IS ABOUT 4 WEEKS OLD, ITS NOT THAT BIG. IT WAS FINE YESTERDAY, BUT TODAY WHEN I CHECKED ON IT ITS SLUMPING OVER, IT LOOKS LIKE ITS STRUGGLING AND WONT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING. IM TRYING EVERYTHING I CAN, I TRIED TO FEED IT WATER WITH SYRINGE BUT ITS NOT DRINKING. PLEASE SEND HELP HE...

On Monday around noon, one of my barred rocks was found laying on her side not making any effort to get up. This came about suddenly, as the rest of the flock is healthy. She wants to only lean to the right side and keeps lulling her head off to her right. I gave her water with a dropper to keep...

Hi all I have 2 black australorps, the first, alice, has been laying since 2 weeks ago and hasn’t had a single issue. We get an egg from her almost every day and never had a soft shell or shell-less egg from her. Her sister, Gladys just started laying yesterday. We got a perfect pullet egg with...

The reason I need help is because I live in a poor country and pine chips dont exist here. So I have a question that can I use a mixturue of coco peat, rice husk, a lil bit of sand, and just a bit of rocks and gravel for the bedding?

So, I've got alot of birds, but someone's eating most of the eggs! They all lay in boxes evaluated from the ground, and were doing fine, until I ran out of Organic Mixed feed, and had to feed them (ew) Hi-Pro, but now for the past 2 weeks I made my own fermented feed with SO much protein, amino...

We don’t know who to call or what to do, we live in Huddersfield UK and our geese got out this morning because an idiot didn’t shut our gate!! We managed to get ours out as we raised them so they followed us to a more shallow part around the other side of the land and climbed out, but we only...

I have 4 hens who I’ve been treating for lice we sprayed with permectrin a little over a week ago and today I noticed that 4 of the 5 hens we treated have yellow gunk around there vent and under wings (where we sprayed permectrin) along with poop stuck to there vent 3 of the 4 are acting...

Hello all. Long time no post here. Just lost my first pullet in a while to what clearly was a predator. Body is completely gone, no blood, only scattered and clearly torn out feathers left in her place. According to my dad he heard squawking last night, but he only told me this afternoon-ish...

Hey everyone, A hawk attack my flock and unfortunately one of them died. They were all in shock around my farm, specially my rooster. Now they are back in the coop and after 4 days of the attack they do not want to leave the coop. They get out when I go there to give them treats but...

I just bought this from tractor supply yesterday finished off the food I had today just opened this bag up and it looks like this. I feel like it’s usually a lighter color. the food is purina gamebird starter for the chicks and the adults (we found gamebird maitnence while at tractor supply just...

Hi folks, So my Golden Laced Wyandotte, Choo-Choo, seems to have lost some weight as of recently. She’s about 6 or 7 years old. She weighs about 3.2 pounds. For the past few years, she’s had a few cases of bumblefoot, ranging from pretty mild to quite extreme. (I once had to pull out a kernel...

So my pekin girl Dixie is my favorite duck. I’ve had her the longest out of everyone and she’s the one that is nicest to me (eating out of my hand coming around me when outside willing to walk into the house ect.) I noticed today that she had missing feathers on her wings that I’m very concerned...