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Hi there, I’m new to backyard chickens so I apologize if I’m not posting in the appropriate forum but I believe my baby quail rescue has a prolapsed vent and I’m hoping someone here can confirm/ deny and offer some kind of advice. Bailey had a fairly mild case of pasty butt last night, so we...

I have a hen ( Greasy) and this is her first time hatching any babies. She's approximately 3-4 days away from hatching the eggs but the only problem I just found out is that she doesn't have any hay under her eggs. I don't know if this will affect the egg hatching or will prevent them from...

Just got this picture from a friend who hatched some of my birds eggs and just as I was thinking that the eyes looked really pretty, I remembered that Marek’s can cause something that looks like this. The other chicks still have blue/green eyes but nothing like this. I’ve never seen eyes this...

Hi, My Speckled Sussex named Phoenix has fly strike over a patch of her behind about 4 square inches with some maggots around 3/4 inch deep. I’ve bathed her 5 times and I’m currently typing this with my right hand as I hold her bum below water with my left for a 6th time. I’ve gotten roughly...

Hey there, I have two young peacocks who are absolutely writhing with lice on their heads as I’ve identified, I was wondering if using “Durvet Ivermectin Oral Paste 1.87% (apple flavored)” would be safe for them? If that’s alright, I do also need the safest dose per pound for them. It’s 91mcg...

I have a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen who is almost a year old. She has slowly been losing feathers on her back at the base of her tail. Today I looked at her and her back was almost halfway bare and it has become sun burnt. There are small blobs of blood from where I believe the feathers have...

I have a chick that didn’t fully absorb their yolk before hatching. It was just a little bit so I found some similar posts online and followed the advice there with my own tweaks and the little one is looking pretty good now but I want to know what else can go wrong at this point and what I can...

Hi. Last week I discovered my eight-year-old narragansett hen had a vent prolapse. I went through the procedure of repeatedly pushing the prolapse back inside, and it hasn't stayed in on its own over the past seven days. I have kept her in the dark, and she has passed two eggs--both the size of...

So I noticed blood in the coop this afternoon and immediately looked to the poor bullied hen, Beetle. Despite being older than the others by some days, this poor hen landed herself at the bottom the pecking order and is constantly bullied— she used to have feathered feet 😭 Well... turns out...

I read somewhere once that chickens are not supposed to eat potatoes or avocados because there is something in their skin that’s not good for them. Is this true? Do people ever give their chickens left over potatoes or French fries and what has been the outcome?

Hi everyone, I have 4 chickens that were attacked by a coyote last night. 2 are badly injured. (Warning. Graphic description below.) I have photos, but they are really graphic so I did not include them. Cheerio is my 4 y/o scrappy hen. It looks like the coyote took many bites and I interrupted...

I am concerned with why the air sacs in my call duck eggs are different sizes. We are on day 23 and 2 of them have nice big air sacs (I can actually see one seems to be trying to push through the air sac to make an internal pip). The other 5 eggs air sacs are quite small still and I don’t...

The short story is that one of my two female ducks got taken by a fox in bright daylight before me. I've since brought a new duck, drake this time. But the problem is she goes on a rampage whenever I am not close to her and quacks like she is in big distress. I cannot even leave her in my...

I have five eggs in lockdown right now and I just want to make sure I have everything right. I have a little Govee thermometer/hygrometer monitoring everything and the temperature is rock solid but I feel like the humidity might be a little high. Should I keep the humidity on the higher end or...

I've got this silkie chicken that I've had for almost 5 years now, I've recently noticed(while picking her up) that her face absolutely stinks, at first I thought that maybe she needed a bath, but the rest of her body smells fine, its just her head, as I said I've had her for almost five years...

I have a silkie hen and she has never had chicks but has layed normally. So now she has decided she wants to have chicks so she's been in the nesting box and protecting her eggs and everything and I couldn't be more proud. But before anything happened I had introduced another hen I had from my...

I decided that I needed a goose or 5 to help alert me to issues with my Chickie-doos. My pyrs bark so much, and it’s never anything important, so I quit running to the window 8,000 times a day and night about 2 years ago. Geese should, from what I’ve read, be a more dependable alarm for...

Hey guys, I have three Black Copper Marans and one BCM/RIR cross that are about 3 weeks old and I want to know your thoughts on what I have. 🧐 I’ve read that BCM are pretty early showers of gender and I’m wondering if I have three boys…🤨 Number 2 definitely looks like a cockerel to me but the...

Hello all, Hoping someone here has experience with goats and can ease my worries. New to owning goats. We banded our ~10 week old buckling last week. All went well, almost TOO well, it seems. Made sure both testes were in, teats were out, he peed afterwards, no issues. He has not shown a single...

Today while I was collecting seeds from my Cauliflower seed pods I was thinking about the seed pods opening up on their own when I wasn't around, and that got me thinking even more.. What if I made a garden section where I left the plants, partially, to their own devices. I would still water...