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I have a first time broody Polish bantam hen who we have let sit on 2 eggs. She’s a funny thing (I think most polish are), so she chose the most inappropriate neat box in an appropriate place. We moved her box into the shed and she is happy in the new place but still in plastic nest box. I...

I posted a couple of days ago about my booted bantam here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/gapeworm-or-respiratory-please-help.1455753/ Unfortunately, she didn’t make it. Her symptoms of “crowing, gaping” got worse as if her air way was closing up and she passed during the night...

I have a sick booted bantam hen. She is 2 years old. she free ranges in the garden with the other 6 chickens we have. Yesterday I noticed that she sounded funny, as if she had something stuck in her throat. Her “voice” was more high pitched than normal. She also sounded like she was trying to...

I recently (a couple of weeks ago) realised my chickens have lice!! Oh the shame! I have one cockerel and 6 hens. The cockerel was persistently preening his rear and that is how I realised. I don’t know where they came from, but I am in the UK and our flock free range all day in the garden...

One of our 18 week old Polish pullets has had some blood in her nostrils. I noticed it a couple of days ago so have kept checking her. Sometimes it appears dry so I wondered if she had an injury but there doesn’t appear to be any trauma. Today the blood in her nares was wet, and she sneezed a...

Has anyone ever seen this kind of behaviour before...? https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS48yNsN/ Yesterday, Zasu humped a rug... and today, he’s tried to touch tails with my slipper 🤣 Obviously we thought it was hilarious... any thoughts or suggestions? (My friend made the Tiktok of the video...

I’ll start with the good news... my chicken no longer has a black tongue! However, we have only had her a few weeks, and she was a rescue hen. When we got her, I gave her a good checking over and she had a black tongue. I looked to see if this was an indication of anything but couldn’t find...

Jet, the black Silkie bantam, is 16 months old. She seems to have a problem with her vent. I have noticed some clear discharge, which turns crusty around her feathers. She seems to often be preening back there, and when she does, her vent squelches (sorry for the detail). I had noticed this a...

I have 2 chamois polish pullets who are 12 weeks old... one is smooth (called Queenie) and one is a frizzle (called Flossy). As you do, I was taking a picture of Queenie yesterday and Flossy just couldn’t resist getting involved on the action....... Look how cute 😍🤣 Oh, and Flossy is a keen...

We have a new hen in our flock... Suzie. We offered her a home today whilst re-homing some cockerels we hatched over summer. We know she is an ex-battery hen, but I think she had a home since then, but they didn’t want her as she stopped laying, which is probably because she is moulting. The...

In short, any ideas what breed? Or how old? Back story... Today I found a nice home for 4 young cockerels that we hatched over summer, but whilst there, chicken maths got the better of me... introducing Suzie! All I know is she is an ex battery hen. She has been moulting and went off laying...

We hatched a silver laced polish frizzle from eggs bought on eBay... they could have been a number of different colours/types of polish but ours (1 of 6 that hatched) happens to be a frizzle and we love ‘her’ (hopefully a pullet). I’ve searched this site to see if they need any kind of special...

We have 2 barnyard mix breeds that we hatched from our own eggs and a silver laced frizzle Poland hatched a few days later (from purchased eggs). All are 5 weeks, or nearly 5 weeks. Nora / Norman His dad is a black mix breed, and his mum is a gold birchen booted bantam sablepoot: Fairly sure...

I have a 3 week old chick who seems to have a lump in her throat... well somewhere under her beak. It’s not her crop, which is much lower down. And it’s not the bone which runs downward there, as it is also lower down. Her symptoms started about 4 days ago when she appeared to be struggling to...

One of our 2 and a half week old chicks has just come down with something. I was with them an hour ago, and they were jumping on me like usual, including little Zasu Polish frizzle. They were with the broody hen mother in the run. I just (about 20 minutes ago) noticed she was listless and...

I hope someone may be able to help identify what the red patch of skin is underneath the vent of our rooster / cockerel. He has just turned 1 years old about a week ago. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that one particularly warm day he was bending round and preening his behind a lot. When I...

I currently have two hens and a cockerel who free range in our garden. They are all the same age at just a year old. We also have another hen who is broody at the moment, so she only comes out for 10 minutes per day. Earlier this month we lost another hen to unknown causes. So basically, the...

Any idea what breeds our 11 month old cockerel, named Clinker, is mixed? I’m assuming polish with the ‘poof’, but the massive comb is new to us and not sure what breed that would be from? He is quite friendly, but can get over amorous with the girls and they are getting damaged feathers - any...

Firstly, I hope I am posting in the right place. I had a small flock of 4 bantam hens and one cockerel. The hens are mixed thorough breeds; Silkie, booted bantam and two welbar bantams, and the cockerel is a mix breed. They are all just about 11 months old. Yesterday, I found our silver welbar...

Hi! I’m new here... so hope my posting is right... Unfortunately one of my hens died yesterday (that’s another story) but I’ve decided to ‘replace’ her since my Silkie is broody. I now have 3 hens and a cockerel which we had from day-olds around this time last year. I put a couple of our own...