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I have four hens, three that are 1 1/2 yrs and one that’s almost four. Two of them, the old one and a young one, are really prone to getting this vent gleet that is just white and crusty and compacts to become very hard to remove. It stuck around a bit throughout the winter but ever since...

Recently, I harness and leash trained Henrietta for my senior photoshoot! I took her last Friday and throughout the event I kept a really close eye on her and she was very relaxed. She did great (I guess because she’s an older girl who’s already had some experience being moved around to new...

Splash, paint, exchequer, ermine, mottled, silver spangled… 😵‍💫 I was doing research for fun because I find it so interesting how there’s so many different ways for a chicken to be black and white spotted. I think it would be cool to find out what causes all of them. So I know that splash...

My black ameraucana is finally starting to molt! I heard somewhere that if a chicken's sheen/iridescence on their black feathers is greenish or purplish depends on what you're feeding them. (something about the amino acids and proteins in a feed??). Essentially, while my black ameraucana is...

My show hens are 1 year olds, and I’ve found out that’s probably the worst age to show chickens because they still need to get their first big molt, which doesn’t happen until they’re almost two years old. My three 14 month old ameraucanas still have their feathers from over the summer, and my...

So, I have upcoming junior shows and I’ve been kenneling my two of my hens at night and until I let them out in the morning or noon to get them used to being in a caged environment. I will occasionally find an egg in either kennel, but sometimes the hens refuse to lay and get pretty frantic...

So, I have upcoming junior shows and I’ve been kenneling my two of my hens at night and until I let them out in the morning or noon to get them used to being in a caged environment. I will occasionally find an egg in either kennel, but sometimes the hens refuse to lay and get pretty frantic...

I think I’m going to go to my farm supply store soon to get some liquid dewormer (maybe the one marketed toward goats) fenbendazole because I’ve been seeing some pretty iffy poops lately. Watery and stringy. I also have one hen with white crust around her vent. How do you give it to your...

Part 1- so the 4H guide to showing poultry recommends that you remove/pluck any broken feathers on a bird to prepare her a few months before the show. My girls are a little over a year so they have quite a few broken feathers, especially on their necks behind their ears. I pulled some of the...

I want to hear from other people with October chickies. When did they molt?? Was it in the fall, around their one year mark? Was it in the winter, around January-February? Or was it in the spring, around May? I’m curious to know, because my girl’s feathers (which were beautiful when I showed...

I've got some new people in my school district getting into fancy chickens, and i'm trying to make a slideshow of the APA and ABA accepted breeds and their pictures for educational purposes. I'm going off of a list of APA and ABA accepted breeds and in RCCL class there's... Jersery Giants?? In...

This afternoon, I noticed my girl Agnes had spots on both of her feet that are bloody, and looks almost like the scales got scraped off somehow. This happened to one of my other girls a few months ago, (it turned into a large scab, which fell off, and the skin underneath healed but her scales...

One of my Ameraucana pullets has a small scab on the bottom of each of her feet. She isn’t having any trouble walking, they don’t seem swollen, and she has no reaction to me pushing down on the soles of her feet with any amount of pressure. However, I would like to treat her so that she’ll be...

hello! I’d like to know the defects and disqualifications specific to the Ameraucana breed (like, split wing is a disqualification in all breeds, but ear tuffs and yellow bottom of feet are only DQfor every breed, but are for Ameraucanas ). I was wondering if anyone readily had this information...

This year, I’m going to be a senior showperson for exhibition and showmanship in the upcoming junior competitions. I have purebred Ameraucanas, which I showed last year when they were very young pullets. This year, they are going to be hens, and I don’t have much experience with preparing...

I was going through this whole year assuming my pullets would molt this fall, but then remembered that most sources say that chickens have their first big molt 16-18 months of age. My pullets were hatched in October, so this fall they’ll be around 12 months old. So I’m wondering… will they...

Today I saw a little video in instagram of a cute Cornish cross chicken waddling after some food. I was looking at the comments (which was mostly people lamenting the health of the breed) and someone replied to a comment saying that they can split in half or explode?? They insisted it to be true...

Long winded explanation: My grandparents are having predator problems so are unfortunately down to two pullets. Me and my family are planning to help them predator proof and then I want to raise them some chicks so they can have some more chickens. The main problem is that in the last batch...

I have a pullet that will be a hen in October, and I’m also expecting her first big molt this fall. She has splash coloration, so she’s mostly white. Her white feathers have a orangish yellow tinge, which I know happens from a free ranging when they eat grass. Anyway, I was wondering if I’ll...

Today it’s 97 F in Texas. Recently, two of my girls (both of which have always had naturally just a bit runnier poops) are getting small buildups of poop around their vents. I have three pullet ameraucanas and one 3 year old EE. Two of my ameraucanas have perfectly clean vents but the EE has...