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My chicken has been molting for at least a month. I am concerned that the feathers that she still has looked really frayed. Is this normal for a chicken to look so scraggly while molting? my other chickens seemed to have their feathers just fall out and return. I don't see any pins forming yet...

I thought that my chicken had puss in her eye, but it is actually an accumulation of fluid. She also has a distended abdomen. It seems like there is fluid built up in her. what could this be? She has not eaten anything this morning. I have her in a cage in the laundry room. is it better to keep...

I read another thread that had the same puss in the eye thing. Is there any way around the drainage thing? OMG I am light-headed. I have some clindamycin from another chicken that had an infection. If I give that to her first will it make the abscess easier to drain?

My chicken's feathers around their vent are soiled with dry excrement. This encourages lice and mites. how can I keep it clean? Is there another way other than a bath?

I have a chicken that looks very pale in her comb. I treated her with prescription meds for mites, pig swig, and corrid. Everything looks normal, but her comb is still super pale. How long does it take for the color to come back? Could it be something else? I posted a picture of a strange color...

My name is Julie Thorpe. I started Brave Heart Farm as a chicken refuge for chickens that are sold as roasters at the local feed store. I did this as a proactive expression of my reasons for being a vegetarian. A limited diet that excludes meat is a good way to impact industrial farming, but I...