head twitching

I have three silkie chicks I’ve had them for about three days. Last night I noticed our chick, named Wednesday, was twitching her head more than the others do. This morning she had extreme pasty butt. I cleaned her and she had extreme pasty butt again about an hour later. Like rock hard and...

Hi, this is my sweetheart Opal, this spring she lost a lot of feathers on head and neck, she watch twitching and scratching at her face to where she caused a slight cut/ injured under her right eye (light pink puff on S/E corner, but it isnt infected, and is healed. But my issue is this, these...

Hello everyone, I am not new to raising quails or chickens but have found I enjoy raising coturnix quail mostly. Currently I have 23 quail and they are all coturnix. I have been following this site for sometime and am finally in need of assistance with an issue that one of my newly hatch quail...

Today I fed my chooks and everyone was fine, running around pecking at their food as they always do, not long ago got a call saying my old bantam hens head was twitching and she couldn’t walk properly and that she was just sitting on the edge of the water container, go out to check her myself...

hello I have a duck that is about 4 months old and these past two days she’s been having multiple seizures (something similar to this happened before but last time it did was around 2 months ágonas it also wasn’t this bad but last time it happened we took her to the hospital because we thought...

I am trying to introduce my hand-raised chicks into a new coop with a hen and her chick at the same time. The chick is submissive so he isn’t an issue. When I brought 2 of my other chicks into the coop, the hen pinned down the most submissive one and brutally attacked her. I got the hen off but...

I am trying to introduce my hand-raised chicks into a new coop with a hen and her chick at the same time. The chick is submissive so he isn’t an issue. When I brought 2 of my other chicks into the coop, the hen pinned down the most submissive one and brutally attacked her. I got the hen off...

hello! Purchased 1 EE and 2 dwarf chickens. Have had them 2-1/2 mo, they are all about 5-6 mo old. The EE twitches her head when I speak to her - the dwarfs do also but not as much. She sometimes does it when I’m not talking to her. She does not scratch her head like she’s itchy from mites...

Hi everyone. Really happy to finally be a member. Have been utilizing this site and all the great tips since my boyfriend and I bought a new home last fall and inherited a flock of 5 chickens. 1 Black Australorp, 1 Plymouth Barred Rock, 2 Sussex, all going on 3 years old. Also one bantam...