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  1. KweallCeypur

    Advice for Two Old Quail Hens with Health Problems

    I've got two old quails (both are no longer laying), Octopus and Tsapa, who have quite a few health problems and I was wondering wether anyone has advice for some of their issues. Octopus has -what we believe is- gout on her feet and we've been giving her chopped salad and buckwheat in addition...
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  2. KweallCeypur

    Advice for Two Old Quail Hens with Health Problems

    I've got two old quails (both are no longer laying), Octopus and Tsapa, who have quite a few health problems and I was wondering wether anyone has advice for some of their issues. Octopus has -what we believe is- gout on her feet and we've been giving her chopped salad and buckwheat in addition...
  3. C

    Pneumonia

    So, I have a 9 year old hen named Ballina. She's a great hen, one of the first we've ever gotten. I love her but today (October 28th) we found her sitting in the middle of the yard. You can hear her breathing, but her lungs are clearly filled with something. We took her inside our house and I...
  4. fortoria

    Sweater question

    I have an older hen (5+ years) who has a pendulous crop. A year ago we took her to the vet for an impact problem and she's doing much better but we keep her in a "crop bra" (a modified face mask strapped to her wings and held in place with a clip) to help keep her supported and help her...
  5. HennaPenHollyPol

    Isa brown egg progression

    Hi all, I have a 2.5 year old isa brown that will still lay 5 days a week. About once a week she will lay what I call a rubber egg. It will usually crack inside and she will have the white first followed by the collapsed egg shell. Is this a normal progression for her breed of bird? Also, the...
  6. C

    Older ladies - mirrors good or bad?!

    Hello! New here so please do point me towards any similar threads! :) I’m a first time chicken keeper with 2 Plymouth Rock hens, Princess Layer and Yolko Ono, both somewhere between 5 and 6 years old. They’re both still laying semi-regularly, have recently had a low worm count (50 epg) and a...
  7. B

    Birdnotbint

    I have kept rescue chickens since 2009 and now have 14 ladies and a Rhode Island Red rooster too. I keep my flock at my allotments which are 2 minutes walk from home. My rescue Rottweiler attends daily with me along with my very naughty cat Arya. She prefers to be an only cat and there are...
  8. Verbon30

    When to retire your roster

    I have a 6 going on 7 year old top hat buff silkie rosters. I know he considered an old rosters but he still acts like a sping chicken. I yet to find a better quality or gentle rosters. I already working on plans on raising up some new rooster from my own flock and building a retirement coop...
  9. amynw

    Sick hen

    Hi everyone. I’m hoping to find some help with my dear Ruby. She is approximately 6 years old, she doesn’t lay anymore, and hasn’t since we “adopted her” last year so I know it’s nothing laying related. I’ve just loved her since the day I met her and wanted to give her a home. She is an Isa...
  10. JamieMcClain

    Ascites in an older hen

    We have an older hen (5+ years) who has developed ascites (water belly) randomly. I’m a nurse and know how to drain such things but we will be taking her a to a vet for further evaluation tomorrow. My question is, once this starts does it continue? Like are we going to have to drain her every so...
  11. ECrow

    Is my hen having breathing difficulties from old age or is she sick?

    I have a Buff Orpington hen who will be ten years old this spring and I'm beginning to grow concerned about her health. She is still fairly agile - she'll come for foods, follow me around, occasionally bully the younger hens - but some days it sounds like she has breathing issues. I can hear her...
  12. C

    IS MY CHICKEN DYING OF OLD AGE OR SOMETHING WORSE?

    hello, one of my beloved rescue chickens that I have had for 12 months appears to by dying of old age, I rescued her when she was about 12-18 months old and have had her for nearly 12 months, she is an isa brown. she has had a heavenly life sine she came to liv with me on my hobby farm with her...
  13. lbgreenfield

    Older Chicken Sitting A Lot

    Hi there. I have a 3-year old Buff Orpington that likes to sit a lot...like, a lot. She sits under the log jungle gym in the run, she sits in the mulch landscaping bushes, she sits on my lap, she sits on patio under the table (where she currently is sitting as I write this), and now that the...
  14. lbgreenfield

    Older Hen Behavior

    Hi! I have a mixed age+breed flock. My 4 older hens are going on 3 years old. My 6 young hens are about 6 months old. While my young hens are off wandering around, scratching, walking all over kingdom come, my older hens just like to sit most of the time (haha). They walk around a bit, then...
  15. Samson!

    Samson!

    Samson is our old goat.. loves to free-range, and he's a little bit coo-coo in the head...
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  16. S

    Old Rhode Island Red Health Problems

    Hello all, I have been a silent fan of Backyard Chickens for six years, when I first became a chicken owner. I had three chickens until a few days ago, a Rhode Island Red (Eleanor), a Barred Rock (Iggy), and a Polish (Simone). My girls were best friends and I genuinely believe that there was no...
  17. K

    4 yr old Colombian blacktail is unwell?

    Hello, My 4 year old Colombian black tail has been unwell for the past week or so. She (and the others) have been wormed, and she’s also had a weeks worth of antibiotics. She’s also taking anti inflammatory medicine for small dogs as this was given to her by the vet last time she was unwell...
  18. ChickChic00

    Old Generation Chickens?

    Any way to breed chickens so, how they were in the old days? Like, smaller, doesn't lay near as many eggs. The way they used to be. Would I need to breed my chickens several generations down? I will be feeding them like the old days also. Scraps,corn, free range. All that good stuff. Any help is...
  19. Potsmama

    Sick girl

    Carmella is sick. Pls help. She’s super lethargic. Has diarrhea but still laying. Super puffing herself up but it’s warm today like 15 Celsius. She has been losing a lot of weight and meat in her breast; I’ve been feeding her lots of high protein foods. Today she looks even worse than...
  20. B

    Please Help! Sick Chicken

    My Easter Egger hen, roughly 9 and a half years old, has progressively been losing her vision. The other day we found her continuously turning her head as though she were dying, and when my mom picked her up, she rolled onto her back (she would NEVER do this) but she didn't do this when I picked...
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