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Can someone please please help ASAP! I have a little chick here who is almost a week old. Shes been having issues for the past 3 days. Shes not eating or drinking, shes panting/ breathing heavily and shes really weak and lethargic. She seems to have a fair bit of...
I have a hen covered in maggots. They are everywhere on her butt. I’ve bathed her once in a tub full of fly spray and water. Then another time in water and vinegar. It seems like she has a ball of raw flesh coming out her behind. There are still a good bit of maggots on her butt. What do I do...
I have two 4 day old chinese goslings. They seem to be healthy and act normally (in my opinion) and to be happy. This is my first time with goslings and i’m terrified that something will happen to them. Earlier today i noticed some poop hanging out of one of them so i gave them both a bath and...
I have a bantam egg that was 21 days yesterday. This morning around 7 there was chirping and there is a large hole not like the pipping pics I have seen where they are small. I have not heard any chirping for the past few hours. I can see the beak but do not seen the beak moving. Have I already...
I have a turkey I found this morning laying down not wanting to move. After looking him over he seems to have something wrong with his vent. It is crusty and dark around the edges and greenish like there's poop stuck to it towards the inside but he has white stuff coming out of it. There was a...
I got 10 Leghorns and 5 Isa Browns from Hoover Hatchery on Friday. 2 Isa Browns were doa, dead on arrival. 1 was struggling, it past away later that day, Saturday another one started to struggle, it past way too. Now my last Isa Brown "Autumn" is struggling. She had a pasty bottom, so I cleaned...
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My chicken started acting oddly a week ago, when she wandered off somewhere, and today she has gotten worse. She is lethargic (meaning she won't move), is lying in the box where they lay eggs with eyes closed all the time, and when she is standing her bottom is down compared to her...
It's a blue silkie hen who has had crooked beak her whole life and has been just fine. Shes almost a year old. I woke up this morning and went out to go let the birds out and somehow her bottom beak looked like it was missing I took a closer look and her beak isnt gone, it looks like her jaw...
We have a big hawk problem going on right now! We have had chickens for about a year now and we have never lost a chicken to any predator until recently. We just hatched 9 chicks from a broody hen and that is what started attracting this hawk. He is huge and is probably big enough to catch our...
One of my chickens unexpectedly died today. We’re worried for the rest of the flock and would like to know why she died.
She’s a buff orphington.
I’m assuming we’re going to have to find a place to perform a necropsy. What do I need to do with her body in the mean time since it’s night and I...
Hello all, I'm a first time chicken owner who is very worried about her birds! I have 12 chickens who are almost 11 weeks old now, all larger breeds. All seemed fine until a week after they moved out into their coop. I have tried vetrx and it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Will post a...
I have 3 male quails for 13 female quails .....but they are not at all mating....but two females alone lay an egg every day.....I have lights on all night ....I feed them starter feed.....now they are about 7-8weeks old....I brought them at 4 weeks....on the first week they were mating .....the...
Hi everyone! This year for the first time I am showing Polish Chickens in our local fair! I need to pick out my three to take but I don't know which ones. Any help appreciated!!!
Hey everyone! This year in our 4-H county fair I am showing chickens again! But this year instead of showing silkie chickens I am showing polish chickens an I don't know the standard look for them. I tried looking online, but I couldn't find anything, so if you could help me that would be great...
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We are having quite a stretch of 90+ degree weather here in Colorado. I have just completed the finishing touches on our coop and am ready to introduce the chickens to it. I have 10 (9 week old) chicks. I have a 5x6 coop with 2 windows 7 vents 1 screen door... I am under the impression...
I have four hens, two a year old, but for the other two it’s their first summer!
One of them seems fine, but my other (chocolate orpington) seems to be breathing really badly!!
She’s panting nonstop, and I gave her grass and she ‘ate’ it but it came back up and she started coughing... she’s...
Hello everyone,
I have a sneeze going around the coop and I can’t get Tylan injectables here.
I do have Tylan powder.
Can someone help with the dosage for
-Average size bird
-silkie
-8 week old chicks
Thank you
Hi, I am new to the community as we just got two baby ISA browns and two white pekin ducks. All between one and two weeks old, they are currently inside under a heat lamp. they have a constant supply of water and are being feed Purina start and grow feed. Whenever the ducks eat they shake there...