I have a less than 1-year-old rooster who has black spots all over his comb and the back of his head has been pecked at by one of our other roosters. His comb was sort of purple only at the tip about a week ago and we weren't sure what was wrong, recently it turned black and is more widespread...
A couple days ago one of our hens hatched 4 new chicks. She was keeping them in the house part of the chicken coop and doing a good job keeping them safe and warm. Yesterday night we found one of them outside with his head and neck injured. We have no idea what happened to him and when we found...
Two days ago we got 7 baby chicks from a friend, most of them are healthy but one isn't eating or drinking. It stands still all hunched over with its head down, it barely moves and is constantly shaking its head. It seems to be just sleeping, but it never stops.
The coop has a window that stays open and they have a lot of shaded area. It is shaded by the barn so it only gets direct sunlight a couple hours a day. It rained once last week and i live in eastern united states
The chickens are a half a year old when we put them in. The living chickens have feathers pecked off their back and thier combs were purple before, but only the 2 that died had purple combs before. My small one was perfectly healthy and the bog one sat in the nesting box all the time. None of...
We had 21 chickens, 4 of which were not quite full sized. We recently pit the small chickens with the big chickens. Over the course of the last we have had 1 small chicken and 2 big chickens dead in the coup. They appeared to be pecked and the big ones had purple on their comb.( The small one...
I got baby chicks a week ago and this one has a hurt leg. I'm not sure how to help it or if I need to kill it. It keeps making a very high chirp all the time for the last day. Help!!!
I have a baby chick that is injured. I think it's it's leg because when she tries to walk she keeps falling over. She is making very high pitched noise. What do I do to help her?