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Hello, I am going to hatch some eggs this spring, and would like to get more olive eggers. I have 3 Silverudds Blue and 5 British/English Araucana. The rooster is a Black Copper Marans. What hatching eggs should I choose to get the darkest olive colour? I am also going to hatch other eggs for...

Hey guys! I have checked if some of my chicken and duck eggs are fertilized. I think it is very hard to tell.. I have 26 chickens and 1 rooster. I also have 2 female cayuga ducks and 2 male ducks. Could you help me? Are these eggs fertilized? I think this one is fertilized? Not sure...

More often in the news, you can hear about apparently healthy people dying from fungal infections because the fungus is resistant to all the medication. Resistance is created by excessive, unnecessary or incorrect dosing of medication. When you give your chichens medicines such as monistat or...

Duck suddenly vomited up three slugs and had runny white poop. She laid down with her feet behind and tried to press a lot! She did press so much that her intestins almost came out, but they didn’t. I put her in a big tub of water and now she seems a bit better. But her feet are straight behind...

Dear all, today I lost one of my maran chickens. She was almost 1,5 years old. She was completely normal yesterday, bright red comb, laid an egg and was doing normal chicken stuff. Today she was barely moving, heavy breathing, pale comb, sleepy. I moved her to her own cage, and a few hours later...

Hello! Found my male duck today with what seems to be the penis hanging out. Am I correct? I think the penis looks «dead»? Or is this something else? Is there anything I can do to help him? Please help, I’m pretty new to keeping ducks.

Hi! This is the THIRD time THIS YEAR I am experiencing slow crop in molting chickens. The poop consists of 95% clear water and 5% green/turquoise strings of food/slime. I am concerned that they will loose a lot of weight and become sick. It is like the crop is barely functioning. When they eat...

Hi! I have both ducks and chickens. I am new to ducks and have only had them for 7 weeks. I am noticing that when chickens eat grass the take small pieces, but when ducks eat grass/plants/moss and so on, they swallow BIG pieces, whole plants and so on. I know that chickens can get impacted crop...

Hello! I have been giving my chickens lactose free yoghurt (probiotics) to help them recover after antibiotics. Then I read that lactose free food contains something called galactose, which is toxic to chickens? I have never heard this before. Does any of you have any information about this? I...

Hello, My one year old chickens have a bacterial infection called Clostridium Perfringens. My vet gave me Amoxicillin to treat it. Mix with water and give them for seven days. I was wondering if anyone knows if I can give the chickens Probiotics while treating with amoxicillin? Or if the...

I have a one year old black copper maran rooster. He is mating the hens all the time. Recently a friend tried to incubate 18 eggs from us, but none of them hatched/not fertile. The roo and the 26 hens seem to be healthy, and they are all one year old. I can’t see that there is something wrong...

One year old chicken is sick. She was perfectly normal four days ago, but within an hour that afternoon she went from normal to sick. Puffed up feathers, standing with tail feathers down. She walks very slow, like a penguin. I separated her and keep her inside the house. I do not think she is...

Hello! For a couple of weeks/months now I have been seeing this kind of poop on the table below the roosting bars in my coop. There is always a normal looking poop, but it has some blood (not bright red but more dark red, almost brown) on the white part of the poop. Almost like the blood is «on...

Hi! My chicken has an impacted crop bacause I think I have fed them too much bread… it feels like a dough-ball inside the crop. She is not pooping much, it’s mostly water that comes out. I would love to get some advice on how to fix this problem!

Hello, we are going to butcher male chickens today. I think I know who is female/male, but I’m struggleing with the wyandottes (first time I’m having wyandottes). There are 5 in total. 1. This one I think is a pullet. She is smaller than the others, her feet, comb and wattles are also smaller ...

10 days old chick with prolapse? The vent is big/swollen/covered in blood. What can I do to help? Need advise fast

Hello! Two of my chicks that hatched about 12-16 hours ago are not normal. 1. one chicken is very small, almost just skin and bone. When it hatched the yolk was still attached, and it was destroyed before the chick had time to absorb it. The chick is trying ti get up on its feet but it’s not...

One of my chickens is not feeling well. She pooped this. Looks like poop with some meat/flesh/slime in it. She has just started laying eggs, 6 months old. What can it be? Is she sick?

Hello, My blue marans hen has a red area on her skin on the left side below the cloac. It is clearly swollen. It has been like this for some months now. I thought it would get better after we killed the rooster 5 weeks ago, but it has still not healed. It looks like the feathers in this area...

Hello I was watching some of my eggs hatch, but it stopped. Looked like the humidity was too low even after I did everything the instruction said. I opened the incubator to add a bowl of water in addition to the water i already have in the incubator. I also tried to peel off some more of the...