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  1. Citychickengal

    Bright green runny poop & squishy crop - please help, desperate!

    If anyone can help I would so appreciate it - I’m desperate here, I have no idea what is wrong with my hen! She’s about 6.5 months old, and not yet started to lay eggs. She free ranges in my backyard with 10 other chickens, none of whom show any signs of illness. I first noticed that my one...
  2. E

    Causes of guinea fowl loss of coordination

    We have (had) 16 guineas from JM Hatchery. They are 3 months old and have been doing great. They free range all day and in the evening come home to their pen and some dinner. We live on a 24 acre wooded property in North Carolina, and I don't believe they are traveling beyond our woods at this...
  3. Belden4

    Hen under the weather

    Hello Everyone! Yesterday my husband noticed one of my hen's standing in the middle of the run while everyone else moved anxiously. I went right out to check on her because this is very odd behavior from my ladies, She in fact was standing there sleeping. She wouldn't move unless someone ran...
  4. Aliamelody

    Whats wrong with my duckling?!

    Hello guys This is my 6 weeks duckling Hes got wrong with his feet. Do you know whats wrong?
  5. J

    Young hens having flatulence.. need advice

    Hello, I'm new here ! I am rather new to having chickens, and I see there are a lot of experienced chicken owners who I would really love advice from. I have had my 8 girls ever since they were about 3 weeks, (they are about 7 months now ) and up until a few weeks ago they seemed perfectly...
  6. G

    What is wrong with my duckling?

    Hi! I didn't know where else to post this but here goes nothin'. So, pretty recently, I got a duckling. She's an indian runner duckling who's only a little less than a month old. About 3 days ago, I noticed she had white crust around her eyes. She was also sneezing. I looked around on google for...
  7. ChickenGeek_101

    Unknown sickness

    Hey guys so last week my dad Bought me 4 bantams two are golden sebrights and the other two are some kind of bantam not exactly sure, but anyways I was away most of Saturday and all day yesterday, they seemed fine last night but this morning when I checked on them one of the roosters wasn't as...
  8. J

    Blood in eggs

    We have four hens. Great girls they're. We cracked an egg tonight and there was some blood in it. To hens are the same breed so we know which one it could be. Thanks for the help in advance.
  9. MINDANAO DAVE

    NEWCASTLE DISEASE PHILIPPINES

    I had Newcastle Disease about 2 months ago which took all my chickens 64 and I was able to save just one all in the span of 7 days.Can anyone tell me how long it takes before I can once again house new birds in the pens ? I have cleaned with bleach on most everything in chicken house. Even...
  10. HonaHelp

    A blessing turns into a nightmare...beware......

    Several weeks ago..I won a rare pullet raffle. I was over the moon with excitement!! :eek: The 4 different breed pullets were shipped to me from a breeder down south....at 8(one of them) and 12 weeks old. Luckily...the Ohio cold has kept my quarantine period LONG. The birds have been here...
  11. I

    My Silkie chiken

    My silkie chicken has a very bad sinus infection. and we didn't notice till we picked her up and saw that both of her eyes were swollen and white stuff coming out with a nasty smell. The pus was in both eyes. The right eye was worse than the left and she hasn't ate or drank we've had to force...
  12. chickenkisses02

    Dying Chickens--what is it and how spreadable?

    I have had 2 chickens die in the same day and cannot seem to find exactly what it is. My worst fear is that it would spread through the whole flock. So I am wondering what is is, cures, and preventatives. Here are the symptoms: No noticeable difference in earlier days. The one died quicker...
  13. Samannemm

    Pale combs, mites, fowl pox???

    Hey all, I have three hens - 1 polish, 1 red sex link, 1 Black sex link. We’ve been battling a bad case of mites since January on and off. Because it’s still cold here (Illinois) I’ve been using Prozap garden and poultry dust with permethrin. I was able to use a mite spray last week when it...
  14. GoatDragonFarms

    Tragedy - Sickness and Loss

    Its a sad day on our little farm. Our Wyandotte Hen passed away during the night. I found her sitting in the coop fluffed up and legatharic. I moved her to the "hospital in" and began working on her. At first Virginia and I thought she was hypothermic and treated her for that. Doing...
  15. Larouxbestfan

    rooster has stopped crowing and keeps his head down

    I have a rooster that I found in my abandoned barn a few weeks ago. He's been acting normally, like all my other chickens, up until very recently, as in the last few days. I'm very concerned about him. Some points to keep in mind: 1.He has lice (not infested, but a lot of nits) 2.I've given him...
  16. 3

    Odd Poop and Odd Behaviors

    Hi there, recently my hen has been in weird moods and pooping oddly. My hen who's 3 1/2 years old was acting a little off like she could be sick last week, I noticed that she was eating things like roots, shavings, and various Earth particles in the dirt consistently. I didn't think much of it...
  17. Age-of-Goositude

    Injury or Disease?

    My geese do not get sick really so this is a mystery to me. Recently my boy George and little girl Regina have been jumping the fence, they are the only ones who do it. They are brown Chinese and this evening I noticed one of George's eyes has been squinty and I got a closer look the top of his...
  18. redranger209

    Congealed Egg

    I went to collect my eggs today and two of them were several tines lighter than the rest. I decided to crack them open and there was no white and the yolk was congealed, like jello. I'm not sure which hen laid it, but only three lay in that shade of brown. The ones with that color were hatched...
  19. C

    Emergency!!!! Need help diagnosing sick chicken!!!

    Emergency!!! Need help diagnosing sick chicken!! So I have a rhode island red with me whose been acting strangely the past couple of weeks where she's been: -Distancing herself from the others -Lethargic -Lack of appetite And when I told my mother about it, she just told me ahe was fine until...
  20. clamccauley

    Internal Laying and Life expectancy

    Over the past 3 years, I have raised 18 hens averaging about 6-7 at a time. I have not had a hen to survive past 2 1/2 years and some only make it to 2. Is this a typical occurrence? They have all died from either internal laying (from what I can tell) and hold on for anywhere from 2-3 weeks...
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