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Emergency, please help! My 2 year old chicken has been acting off (standing around, wings drooping, not eating/drinking) all day, but things seem to have taken a turn for the worse. When I went to check on her just now, her eyes were closed and she seemed to be struggling to breathe. Her...

Something is going around my flock and I could use some advice. I have two chickens who have been laying shell-less or wrinkled eggs and just generally seeming below par. They have access to oyster shell at all times, so I'm not confident it's a calcium issue. I brought one inside yesterday...

I found this worm on the ground while scooping up poop in the chicken run this afternoon. It was very small, about the length of a fingernail and was still moving when I found it. Can anyone identify what it is and how best to treat it? I have a few chickens acting off and laying shell-less...

Hey everyone, recently I've noticed some whitish yellowish, mucus-like blobs in some of my chickens' poop. It always comes out looking like a blob, but when I cut it open, it turns somewhat stringy. It looks a bit like shed intestinal lining, but completely pale instead of pink or red. I've...

Hey everyone, I have a hen who's going through a late molt right now. I noticed a few of the tail/wing feathers she's shedding have had blood inside the shaft. She's not the only hen I've seen this in, but she's had the most obvious blood "deposits." Is this normal with molting? Or could it be a...

Hey everyone! First, please forgive the length. It's been a bit of a complicated, drawn out situation and I want to get all the details across because I'm at a bit of a loss. The problem started back in October/November when I noticed that one of my one year old hens had been having very...

Hey everyone! I'm concerned about one of my year old hens. For the past few weeks she's been having very watery, small, unnaturally green poops (pictured here). It took me a while to figure out which hen was having these droppings because until just a few days ago, she'd been acting fairly...

Hello everyone, I was hoping to get your input. I've been treating a couple of my chickens for bumblefoot with foot swelling and I've run into a bit of a wall, with no clear idea on how to proceed. I've been doing nightly soaks in warm Epsom salt water, spraying with Vetericyn, applying...

Hey Everyone, I went out this evening to do my nightly check on the chickens and close the coop when I noticed that one of my hens, who is normally the first to greet me, was acting very lethargic. She was was moving very slowly, scrunching her neck in, and drooping her feathers. Her comb is...

Hey everyone! I have a 19 week old chicken who I thought was a Welsummer cockerel, but now I'm not so sure. He looked like the 3 Welsummer girls when he was a chick but developed his comb and wattle way faster than the others so I was pretty sure he was a male Welsummer. These are my first...

Hello everyone, I am a first time chicken mama of ten 13 week old chickens and am trying not to panic after noticing some of my chickens (especially the Welsummers) sneezing. My chickens do what I call "dainty sneezes" from time to time, particularly when pecking and foraging. These sneezes are...

Hello everyone! This is my first time raising chickens and my young (11 week old) pullets and cockerel have been outside in their coop and run for a few weeks. I did a lot of research and decided I wanted to try the deep litter method and am at about six or seven inches of a mixture of hemp...

Hey everyone! We're transitioning our chicks to their outdoor 8x8 coop this weekend, but live in a hot climate where temperatures in the summer range 90-100 degrees nearly every day, so we'd like to get a fan for the coop and a fan/mister for the run to help keep them cool. We've done quite a...

Hey everyone! First time chicken mama here. I have 10 almost seven week old chicks that I purchased online from TSC (Hoover's Hatchery) as a part of a package of mixed standard and rare breeds that I could use your help identifying and sexing. In case it's helpful, here's what the listing...

Hello everyone! First, some context. I am a first time I have 10 six week old chicks that I just transitioned to total (natural) darkness at night. There's two windows in the room so they get some moonlight on clear days but it gets pretty dark. We set our AC at 78 degrees F and the room...

Hey everyone! Anxious first time chicken owner here. I have 10 five week old chicks who I am raising indoors at the moment (temps have been over 100 for weeks and I worry about putting them outside in that until they're fully able to regulate their body temperature). I shut the brooder light off...

Hello everyone! A week or so ago I noticed one of my then 2-ish week old, now 3 week old baby chicks doing something odd. She would stretch her neck upward and open her mouth, but no noise would come out. Sometimes she'd shake her head too. She seemed fine outside of that - eating and drinking...

Hello everyone! I am a suburbanite-turned-city-girl-turned-country. I've always been interested in raising chickens and finally decided to take the plunge a few weeks ago. I now have ten three week old mystery chicks, who I fret over night and day. It's nice to meet all of you and I'm really...