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I am writing you at the end of a very frustrating evening. I happened to notice my white leg horn looks like her foot was a bit swollen. I picked her up and looked at her, and it looked like pretty classic bumble foot. I soaked her, made an incision, pulled out the plug, flushed it with Betadine...

Hello! I have seen other birds posted with this exact issue before but haven’t seen any kind of follow up from the OP’s. Any idea what this growth is on my splash Marans beak? It doesn’t bother her… it’s very hard but has a “plug” on it like a scab. I want to say a little abscess? But before I...

My first time incubating chicks was this weekend, and when I went to move them to the brooder, I noticed one of them had a pretty severe injury to one of its toes. I think the claw is lost, but I don’t know the extent that the toe itself is hurt. I disinfected and wiped the blood away that I...

I was discussing with somebody in a different chicken group about an issue I was having with one of my chickens that I believe to be due to molting… long story short, I have seven adult hens, who will be two in April. They were fed medicated chick starter until they were of laying age, and they...

Hello all, I will try to give you all of the information. I have a flock of 30, with 10 of them being in the seven month or so age group. I noticed a couple days ago that one of them was mounting and pecking another, and I removed her yesterday. This morning when I woke up to feed everybody, I...

This is a speckled sussex we got from Meyer hatchery 10 weeks ago. I’ve had no indication she was a boy (we ordered a pullet) but those feathers look a little pointy in the close up pics. Her comb and wattles are the same size as her sisters though. Thoughts?

We got this Easter Egger from Meyer hatchery four weeks ago, supposedly vent sexed female. We had another Easter Egger hatched 4/17, but it was indeed a rooster. It started growing at five weeks. This EE is not so macho- no bullying, no crowing, no squaring up, terrified of me- but it reminds me...

Is it possible to determine sex of this chick? She or he is 3 1/2 weeks old. I thought she was a pullet, she looks like the rest of my chicks with a bit more pink. She was vent sexed female although I know mistakes are made.

Hello, we purchased some chicks from a hatchery last Monday. I have noticed in the last couple days that a couple of them have been dealing with pasty butt. There are only two that I have any worries about, and one of them a little more than the others. I’ve been soaking her bum and removing the...

Hello all, thank you for having you here. This April will be my one-year mark of becoming a chicken owner, and I have reached my first roadblock that I cannot seem to overcome. I have two buff Brahma among my clean legged birds. Mid January I noticed that one of them had lost considerable amount...

I have 7 hens all hatched around April 1st 2022. I believe the one in question is some sort of Americana/Easter egger (no idea what the mixes there are but she looks like a Brown leghorn and lays green eggs). She was my first layer, and she laid reliably all winter. She really hasn’t taken too...

Hey all, I’m new here. I’ve had chickens for almost a year (April) and I’m loving it- especially my Brahmas. A couple of weeks ago, I asked a local chicken group if they thought the difference in feathering between one of my birds was normal. I have one Brahma with tons of feathers on her feet...