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Good morning everyone, I have a hen Penelope that has been known to prolapse over the last couple years (she’s around 3 1/2 years old). Normally I have not had any trouble fixing the prolapse every time and she has always seem normal and healthy other than that. Earlier this week she wasn’t...

Hi everyone, Ughhhh so let me first start off by saying I never let my husband usual touch any of my hatching eggs in my incubator but I was late getting off work tonight and one of my ducklings has hatched earlier and I told him it was a good time to remove it from the incubator and to leave...

This is one of the young hens I hatched back in February of this year. She’s been doing great but when I went out to feed everyone this evening I found her up on one of the posts just laying down by herself (totally not herself whatsoever ever). I noticed one of her wattles was pretty swollen...

HI everyone! So my silkie hen hatched out 2 more chicks today - YAY! I have hatched out a few of her eggs about 2 weeks ago in my incubator and man are they the cutest here's some pics of them .. (the 1st 3 pics are of the older chicks / and last pic is of the 2 new ones! - obviously the...

Hiiiii everyone! I found a pretty big black snake in our backyard a few days ago (literally deathly terrified of snakes - I'm not going to lie LOL). Now all I can think of is trying to keep snakes from getting anywhere near our coop and run. I have been googling and asking around in regards to...

Okay everyone so a lady near me hatched this chick yesterday in her incubator for her class and she came to me for help! She brought the chick over and it seems fairly healthy! It wants to drink and eat and is really lively -just can’t seem to get out of this position. (See picture below). The...

So... we spent Friday night running errands like we mainly do and I had to run by tractor supply to pick up some chick feed && as most of you know it’s “chick days” and they have all their chicks and ducklings there so obviously I had to head over there go check things out just like I’m sure...

Okay so I have a hen that usually is pretty crazy and one of the few that kinda stay away from me - I noticed she was walking weird yesterday and she let me pick her up which is SUPER unusual and I picked her up today cuz she didn’t seem to want to walk much at all and she was hiding in a...

Hi everyone! I had 8 chicks hatch over the weekend and I’m wondering if anyone could help me distinguish what breed they may be. Chick one is a ham and so fluffy! (Looks like he stuck is finger in a socket). Haha thanks in advance Chick 1 - Chick 2 (I’m thinking part Silkie) - Chick 3

Hi everyone! I have a pair of what I think are a seabright mix that I seriously LOVE. They are the sweetest little chickens ever and just adore me. I got them at a chicken auction back last August and I’m not sure how old they really are but I have never gotten any eggs from the hen. I would...

Hi everyone! I have had a hen (Missy) in my house recovering from a prolapsed vent about 3 weeks ago, and I have been waiting for her to get better which she made an amazing recovery and has laid a few eggs while inside (I’m waiting on the weather to get warmer to transition her back outside -...

Last May my sister in law had called me saying that she had just chased down a fox to get him to drop our rooster Earl which she was out looking for since he was laying down in the bushes by the creek by our house trying to hide from the fox. I rushed home just hoping and worrying about him and...

okay so where do I even start? :hmm Not last Friday, but the friday before I came home to find my 8 month old hen named Sarah with a prolapsed vent. After dealing with a vet and getting her stitched up the following Monday, she prolapsed before we even got home from the vet, so we had to take...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Not new - I had so many chickens, guineas, ducks, turkeys growing up. All sorts of breeds and loved them like crazy. After we moved off our farm, unfortunately we had to sell them all :( talk about hard - anyways I just got married...

I found my youngest hen today when I came home bleeding from her vent (see pictures) and a yellow mucas hanging out. Ive noticed our goose has been picking at her tail feathers lately. She’s not as active as she usually is but still seems to be eating fine and everything. I didn’t find a broken...

hi everyone! I’m posting for a friend of mine and she has a rooster that has been down. His comb is really really blue and he won’t eat or drink and just sits. When she opened his mouth it looked like an oral lesion and after googling it looks just like an oral canker. She has been giving him...

OH MY GOODNESS! Sooooo .. a friend of mine that raises all sorts of birds, said she had invested in cameras to put out on her coops for security purposes - so obviously my first thought was "no way I can afford that - and technology is not my friend, so too much of a pain to even think about...

Am I the only one that decorated their coop for their birds? we have been trying so hard to build a big coop and run (been working on it since May) that is safe enough for everyone! I felt like every day I was praying the whole ride home that my babies were safe and I wasn’t coming home to any...

Has anyone else experienced their chickens laying a half white and brown egg? I found this guy in my coop today!

Hi everyone - I saved this gray/blue rooster from a guy that was going to kill him a few months back. Anyways, I’m looking at getting a few blue laced red wyndotte hens and was wondering what the chicks would turn out looking like. I’m new to all this, so I’m sorry if the question may be silly...