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I have a flock of 8 australorps and 2 of them now have bloody combs. I believe it is due to bullying by several members of the flock. I took the two victims and separated them from the rest for a night and treated their combs per the instruction of an online vet. I noticed today when I put them...

Hey all, I’ve had an injured Brahma for a week now, at first there was no sign of injury, not even swelling, but she had a severe limp so I brought her inside and put her in a crate, and have been giving her 81mg of aspirin twice a day with scrambled eggs. She continues to eat, drink, and...

Hi! My hen/rooster (I am unsure of the gender since she is only four months old, but it may be a hen), who is a Silkie-Turken-Showgirl, has been acting rather strange. When I opened up the chickens, I found her laying down in the middle of the coop. She usually sleeps on a roost with another...

We have a sweet Brahma hen, Clover. She is under a year old, but was injured pretty badly. Her feathers, skin, etc. were completely ripped off at the top of her back, covered by her feathers on her head. We brought her inside our huge laundry room & have 3 dog cages all together to give her...

Hey all, so one of my hens was “attacked” by one of my dogs last week Thursday. I say “attacked” because it was more like a stomping, with some pulling of feathers. I was present when it happened so I was able to stop the dog almost immediately. She seemed to be fine aside from being shaken up...

Today my 6 month old plolish rooster attacked my 5 month old Silkie mix…. I went out to check on the chickens and he was on top of her pinning her down and pecking her at her face. I kicked the rooster off and now have him separated in a kennel from the rest of my flock……. I’ve been trying to...

One of my buff Orpingtons has a super swollen foot. It’s about double the size of her other one and she can barely walk. It’s also very hot to the touch. we’ve had issues with bumble foot before so I thought it was that but when I cleaned her foot there was no abscess or scab. I didn’t notice...

Hello I am new to backyard chickens. I have five 28 week old chickens and 13 week old Polish chicken. My older chickens are americana chickens and Brahma chickens. I had them first and then I got the Polish chicken when she was about eight weeks old. The first week the bigger girls were bullying...

My dog just bit one of our chickens and came up with a mouthful of feathers and a tiny bit of flesh leaving my pullet bare around her bum. Will she be ok? Is there something I should do for her?

We have this lovely Cochin pullet, who has been squatting like this for over a week. She is not egg bound, our Poultry club friends are thinking that she was mounted by our larger males and that this has damaged her legs/ hips. How do I go about making her comfortable? I have her in my office...

Hello! This morning when I let my chickens out, I saw that one of them had their wing out and up, as if stretching or something. After a few seconds, she wouldn’t lower her wing, so I gently pushed her wing down, and carefully put her longer wing feathers together, and back into place. When I...

2 days ago i got an unwanted fox visit . ( In context I'm a minor and live with my father so it's harder for me to do things on my own[like vet visits and purchases on my own}) Thankfully my father saw it and stopped him. he was persistent. The fox cam back around and got a hold of one of our...

I had a meat bird chick attacked by my dog yesterday- mostly just feathers plucked. But the chick is still being lethargic. I would have let it inside but it screamed to be with the others. It’s crop seems to be full and the only outside injury is a slight cut to the skin around the crop...

Thank you so much for reading this thread I appreciate it Long story short i have about 13 chicken's born ending of September I have a molten Java and a big orpington buff and a lavender orpington roosters My orpington buff attacked my Java and now he does not want to put any weight on one of...

My hen has had a slight limp for the past couple days, nothing too major. But on Sunday she couldn’t stand so I separated her, she got out and made her leg worse. Sunday and Monday she was eating and drinking, tuesday I had to make her drink water but she ate fine. This morning she ate when I...

My 5-month-old Polish Bantam Rooster has suddenly started limping. At first, I thought he would trip because he couldn't see (His head feathers are very big), but I've been observing him more closely. He walks around normally but sometimes stumbles while walking and he sits down when he eats. He...

I have 8 chickens, all 5 1/2 months old. None have laid and egg yet. Last week my chicken stopped walking - we tried giving her epsom salt baths and she seemed a lil more peppy after each one, but now she lays with her one leg straight out and can’t sit up. Her leg doesn’t appear to be broken...

About 2 weeks ago my 5 month old chicken hurt her leg, I don’t know how but I found her limping around. Since then I’ve isolated her from the other, been giving her aspirin, and spraying her leg with anti septic spray. However she does not seem to be getting better she stopped laying her eggs...

So a few days ago my chicken hurt her leg and since then I’ve kept her separate from the others and occasionally giving her half a table of aspirin. This morning I forgot to cut it in half and gave her a full 325 mg tablet. It’s been a few hours and she seems fine, can this be deadly and if yes...

One of our chickens was attacked by our dog. we found it laying down pretty in shock and pretty hurt. we think it has a broken neck so we put it in a splint. though it might not be broken. it lays there most of the time. occasionally it moves backwards. when it’s laying down it lays it’s head...