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  1. Pugerpillar

    Horrific Bird Flu Experience Killed My Whole Flock and my Cat

    I'm a hobby farmer from British Columbia, although admittedly my parents do most of the work cause I'm a bit of a germaphobe. I live with my Mom and Dad and a back yard full of fowls near the forest, geese, ducks, muscovies, and many chickens, all free range. I was out for a month to do house...
  2. OliveGreen

    Please Help! 😭 2 ducks have died & now 3rd one is also sick with a bleeding prolapse

    Hi poultry lovers, It’s a long time since I’ve posted here, but I’m in desperate need of help and would really appreciate any thoughts or advice you can offer. Almost 3 weeks ago I found one of our young female ducks (Daisy) with an oviduct prolapse. I took her straight to the avian vet that...
  3. omi4500

    Starting over after Mareks -

    Hi, all. Get your coffee ready...sorry for long post. ☕ I've been a small flock backyard chicken keeper and member here for 10 years. Have always appreciated being able to use this site and your collective experiences/advice as my first go-to resource! It's been a doozy of a year. :( A year ago...
  4. A

    Is there such a thing as a chicken just having a cold?

    When humans get colds and flus we wait it out and it ultimately makes our immune systems more robust, and makes us healthier. Do chickens get seasonal viruses like humans do, that ultimately makes them healthier? Or is everything a death sentence for the flock unless treated with antibiotics...
  5. S

    Nebulizing ducks with F10 for virus- urgent! Any and all help appreciated!

    Our flock of 4 ducks was taken down to 3 this morning. Our sweet welsh harlequin Moa seemingly succumbed to duck viral enteritis (DVE). I'm super worried about my other 3 ducks as they share all the same water and food, and DVE is contagious. Although google says there is no cure for DVE once...
  6. L

    Virus? I can't feel an impacted egg or enlarged craw

    one day our hen went from lethargic and standing with droopy comb to no activity, droopy and pale comb, neither eating or drinking. Virus?
  7. C

    Chick with Coccidia and thiamine deficiency

    I’ve been treating a polish chick for Coccidia and I am noticing a thiamine deficiency. The chick isn’t walking normally and is only laying down and when he does it looks like as if only one leg works. No, he doesn’t have any injury. I’ve seen this happen to a couple of my other chicks that...
  8. Chixmixopolis

    3.5 week old chick with beak bump. Located where a wattle would form. Can anyone identify and advise?

    Rhode Island Red growing like a weed. 3.5 weeks now. Good natured. No issues but noticed this little bump. It's hard, located under bottom beak like where wattle would grow and on one side, her left, only. Does not ooze, although I touched, bot squeezed. Could not be dry Fowl Pox from what I've...
  9. C

    First real problem: Fowl Pox???

    I noticed today one of my 5 chickens has spots on her face and comb. I searched on the net and have determined she has fowl pox. She is still eating, acting normal and laying as normal. The flock is a little over a year old. The other 4 are not showing symptoms. I have questions: 1) What do you...
  10. StardustChicken

    Fowl pox and reintroducing hen

    I've had a fowl pox outbreak I've been dealing with for the last 5 weeks. The chick that was originally infected was hatched/being raised by a broody hen with 5 other siblings. The family has been quarantined from the rest of the flock. All of the chicks developed lesions except, strangely...
  11. J

    Duck viral enteritis?

    I am a new duck owner and 10 days ago collected 5 Indian runner ducks of different ages from 3 weeks - 12 weeks old to keep as pets. 6 days after collecting them the smallest one started to become lethargic, floppy, unable to walk upright, had a runny nose, watery diarrhoea and breathing...
  12. R

    Foot wound?

    Please help my indoor chickens..... They have black spots growth or wound on their feet .... been placing betadine and also oregano extract on their feet... not only on their feet there seems to have white spot on their comb / wattle. Multiple chickens involved. 2 pullet 5 month old, 3 2month...
  13. R

    Help! 4&5 week old chicks dying!

    Hi all, I currently have 5 week old SLW pullets and a few 4 week old Easter Eggers I got from TSC. 4 days ago now, I had two rapidly die around the same time as each other but all others (12 were left) were fine. No bloody stool, but did notice they were all maybe a little more lethargic...
  14. Chickenma65

    Avian Leukosis Virus Question

    Does anyone know how the chickens end up with this disease and how it spreads? My friend got some polish breeds a year ago and she’s lost 3 roosters and now a few hens have tested positive for it. These chickens and roosters are only a year and half old. Some are a bit younger.
  15. TheOddOneOut

    Were blue eggs unnaturally created?

    I love my two EEs; this won’t change a thing about them to me. But.. I always thought that it was natural thing, a gene mutation, something. I was looking up Crested Cream Legbars because I’m a chicken math victim, and in the related searches was ‘are blue chicken eggs natural.’ I realized I...
  16. H

    Duck Losing Feathers on Chest Santa Rosa CA

    Hi we have been traveling since the beginning of February till now from Washington State from before the first Corona BS happened there and are now in Baja Mexico for a funeral but had to keep our birds with someone in Santa Rosa, CA because of the thirty day quarentine rules for birds in and...
  17. filmcmahon

    tired hen

    hello byc! we have 6 hens that are all about 30 ish weeks old and laying. one of our colombians, ellie, has been having a rough winter. first, she caught her comb on a fence while free ranging then healed (she was at the top of the pecking order now she’s probably somewhere at the bottom) then...
  18. K

    Black spots on my hen & rooster’s comb??

    I first noticed tiny black spots on my exchequer leghorn’s comb about a month ago, but didn’t think much of it because they’re acting normal otherwise. When I looked closely today, I noticed the spots have spread a little and the rooster has them too (photos attached). I’m really hoping...
  19. B

    Leghorn's eye is yellow and closed!

    We just noticed this morning and it couldn't have been going on more than a few days. Her other eye seems fine, and she is acting totally normal. I don't notice anything weird with any of the other chickens either. I tried looking up exactly what it was but couldn't find any pictures that looked...
  20. feathermaid

    How do you know QUARANTINE works?

    So, you’ve just purchased some POL pullets, or rescued a small flock of somebody’s unwanted chickens. You can’t just throw them in with your current flock because that could be disastrous without a proper quarantine before integration or even attempting see but don’t touch. So… you keep them...
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