scalped chicken

Hi all, about a week ago i noticed one of the neighborhood roosters in my yard with what appeared to be black gunk all over his head (my first thought was someone did something cruel and dumped something hot on him but honestly idk). he looked wretched, but at the time i was not intending to...

We have a young pullet get under the fence and into the turkey run...she got destroyed. Her head was so scalped it was flapped over her face. I cleaned it with vectrin and pulled it back in place. I then sprayed it with HEALXCEL. This morning it had a hard white casting on it. Like a scab...

We have a game hen who has recently been having wing issues, resulting in mobility problems. We have been treating the wing as best as we can, however today we went down and one of the other hens had got to her. Her skin is literally peeled back on her head and her face is pretty tore up. We...

I got 6 chicks which are about 10/11 weeks. I added them to my flock of 2 standard barred rock hens and a silkie hen after spending 2 weeks seeing each other through a screen. The barred rocks are the highest ranking flock members so they picked on the new chicks. They've been together without...

As most of you know, chicken is on everyone's menu. Sometimes i think the local predators are letting me fatten up my hens for the winter when prey is scarce. A couple years ago, when i let my 6 hens free range around the backyard, a raccoon got into the coop one evening before i locked them up...