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One of my larger-combed hens is also looking a bit like this today. Did you figure out the cause, or what helped?

Thank you, I will! I finally have three eggs developing in my first clutch, four I need to pull, and five I set today. So now my plan is, (not to play too much musical incubators), I will set up my egg storage fridge and keep the eggs from my best hen until it's time to set. I have one great...

I'm going to try! I am very new to hatching, so this will for sure be an adventure!

So of course there was no development there. It inset some more and sure enough I have three nice little eggs developing! The timer says they are on D-15. I set five more today, and I know four will need to be pulled. So I can see how it took two weeks for her old eggs to clear the cue, so...

Can you increase the humidity?

Sorry, I was trying to conserve space with the other kind of spoiler boxes. I guess I'm kind of rusty with this whole BYC thing! Lol

Hey guys, this is my first hatch from my favorite Black Australorp hen, Sydney, and my great big, gorgeous rooster, Othello. I am kind of bummed here. I see one egg looks pretty porous, and the rest...? I just don't see anything that looks like clear development. I thought I would be seeing...

Hi guys!!! Sorry I've been away and it's taken me so long to reply to @Nifty-Chicken 's kind request! We are here, still chickening away! We did re-home our dicks sadly, but it's made our chores quite a bit easier only having one kind of bird to care for. We also lost our big white dog...

Well, she's my chicken. Could she have had that sort of respiratory infection without me realizing? What would the other symptoms be? We discovered mites in the coop, so this past month we have been battling that. Pulled out all of our usual deep bedding and put down cardboard and minimal...

Here entire footpad is completely swollen on each foot (circled in blue), and there is what looks like only a tiny speck of a plug in the middle. It looks to me as if I could have seen a plug previously, and was able to push it out, but maybe there was still active infection going on...

I tried that yesterday to start, but there is almost no scab / plug, so I can't really scrape it with my nail like I wanted.

I just noticed yesterday one of my chickens has tiny little bumbles, with very very puffy, swollen footpads. I gave her a soak, but it's way too tightly plugged for it to push out any time soon. Is Fish Mox a good choice to treat this type of infection? I also have fish pen.

The coloring maybe looks similar, but my Ruby doesn't have any muff / beard action going on. I'd say EE is a safe enough bet!

I'm a fellow February 80s baby as well! 😇

Welcome! I'm glad you were able to get her some meds. It felt very intimidating for me the first time I had to give my pullets a pill, but I got it done and it wasn't as hard as I thought, plus I know I'm a little better chicken keeper for it. Syringes can be tricky. If you have someone who...