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My 3 year old RIR has recently become sick. There are no avian or farm vets anywhere around here. This first started about 2 or 3 weeks ago and has been progressively getting worse. She is very lethargic, she tries to eat and drink however. I have been monitoring her and I haven't seen her poop...

my golden campine has been acting sick lately. It started about a week ago when her face around her eyes became swollen. However she was still eating and drinking so I figured it would go away. But within the past 2 days, it has still been swollen and she hasn't really been eating but she is...

My hen has tried to lay an egg, the egg yolk has come out but we cannot see a shell any where and a whitish liquid like an egg white is kinda just there. Her butt is also kinda sticking out a little and she is puffed up and doesnt look too good. Please help!!! It is not her first egg

My hen Rubooshka who is a Barred Rock is acting really strange. She recently started moulting. And at the same time she does this strange thing. Its like she feels really open to everyone because she has no feathers. She walks really low to the ground. She sorta circles around her food dish. She...

One of my hens, Apple, a golden campine has gone broody a few days ago. We are desperately trying to stop her because she is not eating at all. She refuses to eat. When I try to feed her, she thinks I am attacking her and starts pecking at me like mad. When I try to take her off the nest she...

Our roo Coco has sadly passed away today We have no clue what the reason is. There was no blood or anything to suggest a predator has gotten in. He was perfectly healthy today and cockadoodledooing away but when we came to put the chickens to bed, he wasn't there so we went into their run and...

My roo has been overmating our babies especially Blackberry, one of our Australorps. She is completely bald on her head and all over her back. I feel horrible for her. She isn't bleeding but her whole body is red. Can we fence in a part of the coop and just lock the rooster in there for the...

One of my hens, Rubooshka went through a moult a few months ago and fully grew back her feathers. Then some of my others started loosing feathers and I figured it was a normal moult but Blackberry, my Australorp has not had any feathers on her back or head since February and I don't think they...

Well our Australorp, Millie has recently gone broody but the thing is that first of all, she is sitting on no eggs and second of all we don't want more chicks. I know this sounds strange but we live in a very urban area and if we get more roo's we would need to get rid of them. Also we don't...

Coco used to be nice and friendly. But then he turned into a big fat meanie. A lot of the times when we come in to the coop he starts attacking our shoes very hard. Once he also pecked my mom and almost made her bleed through a thick sweater! Pluffy our little silkie roo actually protects us...

So Millie has been acting kinda strange for a few days. She eats but does not eat as much as she used to. (she basically stuffed herself before and now barely has anything in her crop) She likes to sit around all day fluffed up. The only time she is happy is when we let them free range for an...

So Lilly is my baby girl and is a bit *cough* spoiled. Recently I have really started to love Blackberry. She is so sweet but the problem is that she is at the bottom of the pecking order. Now the real problem is when I pick up my darling Blackberry, my other darling Lilly starts getting...

Our RIR does not eat much. Her eggs don't have shells on them. What is wrong with her?? She is not at the bottom of the pecking order. We have to force her to eat. She isn't very smart. When we feed her, she has to take a few seconds between gulps, like she has some swallowing problem or...

So we are getting a steady flow of eggs each day, usually 4-5 eggs(we have 9 hens). Today when my mom went to collect eggs, she found an egg about the size of a quarter and not bigger. Could this be a new hen laying an egg? My brahma bantam even lays bigger eggs and she is a little banty hen. I...

Im wondering because we don't give oyster shell and their eggs are perfectly normal.

At exactly 20 weeks old, one of our sweeties layed the first egg ever! It is small and light brown and so cute! The egg is perfect, it isnt dirty and the shell isnt broken or anything

My chickens hate to roost on the perches that we have for them. They have to sleep on a table because when we remove the table, they will not sleep on the roosts, they sleep in a corner on the floor. Anyway to fix this? The thing is that when they sleep on the table, they sleep in their poop and...

My sweet little Lilly, will come to me when I call her name Its so adorable! She just runs straight to me. I love her so much! She will even come to me when Im in the middle of a completely open space.

Well our chickens are now 17 weeks old and we just put the nest boxes in the coop. How do we teach them to actually lay eggs in there? We put a few fake eggs in the nests but they seem kinda scared of them and not willing to go into the nest boxes. Any ideas? Oh and by they way, Apple is doing a...