#advice

Hi! I’m a fairly new chicken owner. Still figuring out things and learning more constantly. I do have one chicken that is showing some broody behavior (i have no roosters because they are illegal where i live) She’s been laying in her egg laying box for 2 days now and she isn’t laying on any...

I have a small batch of serama eggs that I ordered in my incubator and as I was removing my rotator to put them on lockdown this morning, I noticed a pip (this one is early) It looks like the shell is broken just a bit but the membrane looks to be intact. I quickly candled it as I assumed the...

hello there, i am posting in regards to my hen who doesn’t seem to recover. she keeps pooping diarrhea or a watery solution and keeps on gasping for air. her back feathers are falling out showing her exposed red skin. we’ve tried vetrx but so far that doesn’t seem to be affective. does anyone...

I was in and out of the coop this evening when I almost stepped on a snake who quickly slithered in the pinestraw flower beds! 😵‍💫 this is my first encounter with a snake while having chickens. I want to be cautious with what the chickens are exposed to, but I would also prefer not to have a...

Hey there! My chickens have been laying eggs for the past 4ish weeks now (🎉) and with me being a new chicken mom, I want what’s best for them and I’d never turn down advice🙅🏼‍♀️For the past week, one of my Barred Rocks has been laying a double yolks. It’s been a one week since she has started...

Hello all, as you may know from my other posts, Pebble has been sick for a long time (though still happy and active for a lot of the day, she’s also suffering a lot). Today we’re putting pebble down at the vet. This morning, something was wrong with our other chicken, olive. We took her to the...

A few days ago I posted about my hen who had a prolapse vent. Mrs duck had a bad prolapse that I healed enough to put her back in with the others the week before. Well a week later, it happened again but worse. There was an egg stuck. I spent 4 hours trying to help her get the egg out. Baths...

Hello everyone, I have a 2 year & 9 month old leghorn hen that just started to show signs of sickness 1 day ago. I'm pretty sure she is not eggbound because she did lay an egg yesterday. She did not lay an egg today though (usually she lays daily). She is still eating and drinking but not as...

Okay so my rooster just recently died and i’m not sure why. He’s around a year old and had been acting weird the past few days. He was acting lethargic and tired. I didn’t notice him not eating/drinking but I don’t think he was doing much of either. A few days ago i decided to take a look at him...

Hello everyone, I randomly came out to my backyard to check on my rooster and I found that one of his spur's went missing/broken and is bleeding. I'm assuming that his spur got stuck somewhere and therefore it broke. Does anyone know any cures or treatment to this? Please let me know ASAP if you...

My EE bantam roo started acting off about a week ago. He seemed to have less interest in interacting with the other chickens, which is very unusual for him. It started getting worse a few days ago so I brought him inside. He’s eating only a bit, and i’m giving him water through an eye dropper...

Yesterday we got a couple new girls from a local that could no longer keep them. Today I noticed one seems to have pretty bad vent gleet. Or at least I think that is what it is, I have never felt with it before. She is pooping fine no blood or concerns and laying fine. What are your...

I checked her butt for injuries, but I found nothing. I believe the blood is coming from the inside. I separated her from my other chicken and I sprayed Vetericyn on her butt. She is still acting like her normal self but she walks slightly slower because of the pain. I checked on her right now...

The chick didn’t bleed much and i cleaned it with banixx for chix and with the flour im sure it won’t anymore, it’s been eating and i just put it back to sleep under a warm blanket in a quarantine bucket, is there anything i need to know about caring for an injured chick? édit: forgot to...

Hello everyone, I have a 1 year and 8 month old Easter Egger rooster and I have been recently seeing these small little white dots on his comb and it looks like some sort of Favus. I did some research and few people said to use Anti Fungal Cream, but I don't have any so I found a bottle of MP...

Hello everyone, I have a 1 year and 5 month old Easter Egger hen and she just started loosing a bunch of feathers starting from 2 days ago. I don't know what to do and i'm very scared something is wrong. When I also touch/pull out her feathers gently, it falls out very easily. Could this be...

Hello everyone, I know it's pretty weird of my-self to ask how much chicken scratch should i feed to my chickens but I really want to feed them the best/desired amount. I bought a bag of Dumor 6 grain chicken scratch at my local TSC (LINK to chicken scratch...

Hello everyone, I'm very disappointed that my chicken saddle didn't work very well. I bought it around 2 months ago and it was working very well at the start and now when i took it off and checked her wing bow/shoulder, its ripped off with no feathers and is bleeding and I'm VERY sure it is...

Hello everyone, it would mean very much if you saw this thread and helped me out on this. My EE hen has a sprained leg and she is getting pecked a lot by the other hens in the flock when she just started to have her sprained leg. She is the lowest on the pecking order compared to my other 2...