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hello, so yesterday i noticed my hen was limping on one leg and i thought maybe she sprained a muscle. The next day she couldn't walk AT ALL. She also doesn’t eat much and sleeps a lot. I thought she had leg mite infestation so i dunked her in vegetable oil and put vaseline on her feet. but now...

Hi everyone I have a bit of emergency and could use some advice ! I have a nearly 4 year old Cochin chicken with what appears to be a prolapse vent from laying an egg that was to large (look at picture below for egg) for her. Note this is her first egg after going through a molt Two days ago...

This is Hermes, I’m pretty sure she’s female and I’m unsure of how old she Is. She currently cannot stand or even sit, she just lays down on her side. She is refusing food and water and cannot hold her head up. Her head is jerking gently to one side, or side to side every now and then, or she...

My eglu pro extra large chicken coop will be arriving at the end of Feb!!! I can't wait! My chicks won't be going out soon, as they are just about 2 weeks old, but their coop will be prepared and ready for them when we start to introduce them outside at 5-6 weeks, and then hopefully fully...

Let's see everyone's gals (or guys) enjoying this prespring weather!

Hi, y'all! I'm looking for some help with my 15-20-week-old olive egger. About 3-5 days ago I noticed her wing drooping and her walking over It constantly. I wrapped the one wing and put her in a separate cage. Over the past 2-3 days, she hasn't been walking and now both her wings are...

Hello everyone. So I have a hen that started having a foaming and leaking eye about 4 months ago. That time all my flock got sick with fowl pox, some of them with the wet version of it, got also foamy eyes. However, she never developed scabs like the others, just foamy eyes. The fowl pox passed...

I've raised chickens for a decade & feel very comfortable caring for them. This May, I'll be moving into new territory by adding 7 Ancona duck hens & a drake. I plan to manage my ducks & chickens as one, mixed flock. Since I've never had ducks before, I'm still researching & learning what I can...

I am building my coop, and we were trying to figure out a way to waterproof the roof. The guy at Home Depot said we could use roofing plastic cement. I have covered the plywood, but I’m afraid that it could be toxic to the birds. From what I read it doesn’t fully harden, it stays a little...

My layer hens have all passed from old age, and the chooks I have now are show chickens that barely lay. We’ve been buying grocery store eggs and I am starting to miss fresh eggs but I am a bit rusty on my layer breeds. I will be starting two flocks, 6-7 hens with 1 rooster in each. So around...

I have 2 chickens, 1.5yr apart in age and my older australorp killed 3 speckled Sussex on the same day! So with only one SS left, I had to make a partition so they have separate coop/runs. Over the past year, the wood of the coop weakened with the elements and the mini pig (which I've had since...

EDITED POST AND NEW PICTURES! She has gotten more lethargic. I caught a fresh poop sample pic below. Vet can’t see us until Monday and I’m worried that will be too late :( She is in with 3 other hens. No one else exhibiting symptoms. She had the eye lid drop before the new ladies were placed...

G'day everyone, I'm new here and I just wanted to know can I run turkeys, chickens and ducks all together? Can they even all sleep together? Just making a coop for my place at Kangaroo island and wanted to know. Thank you to anyone who responds 🦃

Hello! I'm a newer backyard chicken owner. I've appreciated reading other peoples posts as they've helped me raise my own chickens. I have one that has odd coring in her comb. I noticed a white line in the middle 2 weeks ago, and now the top half is blue. It has been colder here, so initially I...

We have three healthy, happy, and friendly girls needing re-homed. When we came back to Colorado, we got the maximum number of hens allowed for our town, 6. However, with just my husband and I, we don't need all of them. Our three Rhode Island Reds have proven fun, cold hearty, and just terrific...

this winter is going to be the coldest it’s been for these hens and I’ve just built a new coop that doesn’t have all the good stuff my old one did. The insulation was half done since I had to put construction on pause when the snow came in and there are even still holes in the roof from where...

#1 This is pterodactyl my 7 month old rooster

Hi! Here is a thread concerning an one-year-old hen that died suddenly... She was a Golden Cuckoo English Marans named Pierrette. A very beautiful girl, with a very "Marans-ish" personality... but maybe a hybrid, since she had only laid cream-coloured eggs...? But whatever... So, this...

My little house Serama Rooster.