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  1. Kalthia

    3 of 5 Hens with pecking injury???

    We are new to chickens and have had our flock outdoors for about a month. Today we went out to feed/water noticed three of the five have slight injuries to their cheeks and head combs. Looks like it just happened. We are building a coop extension this weekend (was already planned). Do I need to...
  2. Wallarobba Ali

    Injured duck

    Hi All, One of my poor drakes was attacked by a goanna (very large lizard- 6 foot) yesterday. I have taken him to the vet and we have isolated him inside and are applying ointment and antibacterial spray, twice daily. He was mainly injured under his wing. Couldn’t stitch as the wound are...
  3. R

    New Chicken with Swollen Ankle & Leg. Bumblefoot or not?

    Hey BYC, My husband and I adopted 3 hens today. They all look healthy, are eating, and are adjusting to our backyard (separate from our existing flock of 11) just fine. The problem is that one of the girls we adopted seems to have a serious foot problem. The people we adopted her from said...
  4. T

    Reintroducing injured chicken

    Trying to figure out how to best deal with reintroducing one of my hens to her flock. She was pretty badly injured a few days ago and I was lucky enough to find a vet who stitched her back up. This was four days ago and she hasn’t seen her flock since because she actually has sutures and...
  5. M

    Injured Foot

    My 1.5 year old SLW hen is limping and not putting much weight in that foot while on the roost bar. We’ve brought her in and soaked it in Epsom salts 2 nights in a row. Tonight she did not want to put that foot into the water. We’ve also used gauze to put chlorohexidine on it to clean. The pads...
  6. Roos

    Guinea hens with hurt backs

    Hello all! Earlier this month, one of my guinea hens got hurt in her back and under her wing and died from sepsis at the vet. Now a second one is hurt, she's staying at the vet with a good chance of recovery. But the wounds are so deep! The vet thinks the male Guinea did it, but we owned one...
    • Roos
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    • behavior guinea fowl guineas injury mating
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  7. Emrosenagel

    Hen walking strangely -- possible leg injury?

    Hello, Earlier this month I had a very sick hen (3 1/2 year old Rhode Island Red). I spent a week giving her antibiotics and feeding her recovery food and yogurt with a syringe. She recovered beautifully at the beginning of last week and appeared to return to her normal, active self. She was...
  8. Tevian

    Injured Rooster: dislocated leg?

    I’m unfortunately not home to assess him so sorry if the information isn’t very precise. My rooster was found today hanging upside down from the roost in my hen house where his leg had gotten caught. My mum, who found him, thinks his leg is dislocated. She had put him in a small cage so he...
  9. gailburt

    My Girl’s Bald Spot

    Hi all - my Hattie has a bald patch that seems to be getting worse. We noticed it a little over a month ago and put it down to molting, but I don’t think so now. We’ve checked carefully for mites, lice, etc, and see no evidence. There’s a little red spot, but that’s all I can see. Any ideas...
  10. B

    Why is my the area above my rooster’s butt pink? No other chickens have this.

    No other chickens have this ailment. I see the hens pecking at this area on him every now and then. Is this something to be concerned about? No blood, no abnormal behavior.
  11. Hnowlin12

    Help!!

    Went to check on our coop for the night and our poor roo’s comb is scary!!! There are 2 possibilities we are worrying 1. He likes to peck eggs and tries to get them before we collect them…could be dried egg? (It’s just a possibility) 2. Fighting with other roo, the other roo is far younger...
  12. M

    HELP, mother hen pecking babies

    I had an old English bantam hatch 5 baby chicks about 3 weeks ago. Today I kept hearing painful peeps. I went and checked on them throughout the day. She is plucking their feathers and eating them. One is now bleeding because she won’t stop and they’re staying away from her. I since took her...
  13. jschmi

    Chicken plucking other chicken’s feathers out, causing them to bleed! Help!

    I have 6 chickens, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Golden Lace Wyandottes, I raised them from chicks together and they are now about 6 months old and one of the Rhode Island Reds’ is starting to pluck the feathers off of all three of the Golden Laced’s backs near their tails. I just started noticing...
  14. S

    Lame chicken help

    So one of our chickens, a Brahman yearling, is lame for some reason. One day she just stumbled out of the coop and fell over unable to use her legs properly. No other chickens are showing similar symptoms, so we quarantined her in our smaller coop. She's eating and drinking well, but she's on...
  15. DuckDuckJuice

    Duck with Broken Wing

    Hi, all! I have some concern about our Pekin, Eggy. Several weeks ago, I went outside to put the ducks away for the evening and noticed her wing was dragging and she was unable to move it at all. I had a friend who is a vet tech come by and look at it and she did a video call with her...
  16. S

    Dog attack, crop impaction, and respiratory issues

    Here is my previous post about Val’s dog attack. The saga continues! She’s been doing well after having her egg removed. Some feathers are growing back but the worst wounds are still healing and scabbed up. I’ve let her outside a few times in short visits to be a chicken, she seems good. BUT...
  17. M

    Broody hen after injury

    Hello all! I have a question about a broody hen. So my hen Peggy, (formerly known as ChiChi), is about 3 years old and just before Christmas last year she was asleep late at night on a perch in her locked coop when somehow a raccoon was able to grab one of her feet and ripped it off. All that...
  18. H

    Introducing peafowl chicks: Question

    Hello, all! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! I have two - four month old peachicks that I am trying to introduce to the rest of the flock. They will be green spaulding x india blue pied (whatever that is, hah!). My pen is 25x20x16(tall) . I am able to divide this pen with panels -- I...
    • HStevens
    • Thread
    • adult aggression chick chicks help injury intagrating introducing new additions to flock peachick peafowl
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Peafowl
  19. BlessedChaosHomestead

    Is this Bumblefoot?

    Male Indian runner duck; both feet have a knot but one was bleeding today. Wouldn’t even have known it except he bled on hubby’s hand when he picked him up. He is walking with a limp now. Third pic is his other foot.
  20. H

    Do I bandage the duck's leg or not?

    One of our ducks has a leg wound (not on the foot). I've emphasized that because everything we have looked up has talked about foot injuries but it's not the same. It's a long gash, one of two wounds we found her with several days ago. We believe a predator attacked her but did not see what...
    • Humble Shack Farm
    • Thread
    • abscess attack bandage duck injury leg predator wound wrap
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
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