I have 6 week old brahma chicks Buff to be exact. The most docile of the brahmas. 3 of them are picking on the smallest, and I do mean picking on him/her. Poor baby has a bloody back and wings. I removed the baby and put him/her in my infirmary. I have to keep the animal away until it heals...
Ok, so if anyone read my previous post a few months back one of my Leghorn hens wasn't feeling too well and I asked for advice and took her to the vet. She recuperated and was in better health at last and then came the real challenge: reintroducing her into the flock.
It's been a back and...
When I went out to check on my chickens one of the hens was laying on the ground almost wedges into the corner, couldn’t see her head. I was sure she had died so my fiancé went into the run to get her but when he went to pick her up she made a noise. She’s still alive!! I lifted her up and...
I went outside around 45 minutes ago to go lock up my chickens, ducks, and geese. However, I didn't see my geese anywhere in the fence. I locked up everyone else, and then I seen the geese over near the far end of the fence. My female, Sniper, was laying down, and my gander was watching over...
i believe my chicken may have either got her eyes pecked at or she scratched them, I’ve isolated her so she doesn’t get picked on, Ive been giving her electrolyte water by syringe what about food? She doesn’t seem to be able to see the food I put out for her, is there a way to make her take...
Today, midday, two small gray, unidentified mammals got in, killed one chicken, and gravely injured the other. I gave the injured chicken a shot of corticoid and it's been almost 6 hours and she's still alive and breathing steadily, although laying down on her side with her eyes closed...
Chickens comb is partially torn off and bleeding. The top part of her beak tip is broken and bleeding. I just brought the chicken in the garage, cleaned off her comb with a warm wet cloth, applied a mixture of silver gel, anitibiotic ointment, and coconut oil to the comb and the broken beak tip...
well I ran out of food the day before yesterday and I’ve had a bad cold so I haven’t been out to get any. Now it’s New Years and I don’t think the stores will be open tomorrow. Anyway it’s not like they are starving they part time free range and get scraps from me as well as my neighbor. But...
I just noticed that a few of my younger hens have started pecking and jumping on one of my older hens and I went to check her out and noticed that she had been scratched on the back of the neck and had some blood coming out. As far as I know it's not too serious but is there anything I can do to...
How's everyone's Christmas Eve going? All well I hope.
Yesterday I was at a family Christmas and didn't get home until late. All I did was fill up waterers when I got home. Today I'm actually out looking at everyone and one of my rooster's feet is deformed and he curls it under while walking...
Hi! At my work we sell chicks and this little gal got hurt a few weeks ago, I think.
Video here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BackYardChickens/comments/a549ve/help_any_idea_whats_wrong_with_this_chicks_leg/?st=JPJFQEUB&sh=89f7237b
They thought she was gonna die but she didn’t, she’s a fighter. I...
I have 6 Rhode Island Reds that are around 3 months old and one day i come out to a chicken missing all the feathers on its back and under its wings, but its also was missing feathers on it right leg. The chicken suffered a severe pecking. She is not walking one the leg and is curling the foot...
hello everyone, today I went out to feed the chickens. We just had our first big snow, and for most of the chickens, it will be their first winter. Some of the girls finally came out of the coop today since it’s nicer weather and of course, they get very excited when treats and feed comes...
we went to rural king today and they had a baby chick who was hurt and was being pecked by the others and I didn’t have the heart to leave her so here I am with just one chick. We plan to get more to raise with her once her foot is healed. Any tips for it just being one single chicken?
My 8 week old Buff Orpington chick has been limping just today. She has been reluctant to put much weight on it, but she has still been hopping around, eating, drinking, pooping all normal. She has been active with the rest of the flock and even on the low roost.
I'm not aware of any injury...
Hello.
We had 3 chicks hatch yesterday out of 6 eggs. The hen had gone broody in one of the coop nest boxes where 2 other chickens lived. Id left her in there to hatch the 6 eggs I had ordered off the internet and then was planning on moving them all this morning to a new run to be by themselves...
Hello fellow chicken lovers! at least once we have all had, or will have, a chicken emergency, and not know what to do. I have had my fair share of problems, from a seriously bleeding comb [suspected bullying, as she is very sweet and at the bottom of the pecking order] to scaly leg. [not that...
Hi. I went to my chicken run today to find one of my chickens with a black ear lobe. Can anyone help me identify what this is?
To give a little more info, these are my family's fist chickens. We have two Orpingtons, one which turned out to be a rooster... and two isa browns. They have a 10x16...
My rooster Henry had been having some respiratory issues and I was going to call the vet today. I left him out on a tie cord last night and this morning I went to check him and something had gotten to him. He has no feathers and is beat up bad. What can I do for him? Please help he is my baby :(
Hi. I have a muscovy hen that had her nest destroyed most likely by a raccoon and hurt her leg in the process.
I think it is fractured just below the ankle. She will not put any weight on it. The leg below the ankle is hot and very swollen. I can feel movement of the bone in there that I do not...