The three larger ones were in the chocolate orpington bin, but there's a copper one who doesn't match. I have suspected he was a rooster since the day I bought him, but at that young age he shouldn't look *that* different right? Also any guesses on the little yellow bantam? It was sold as an...
My flock has a recurring respiratory illness that we're still in the process of tracking down. They've also had mites (all of them!) due to their weakened immune system. Those are under control now though.
My current problem is my top hen. Roughly a month after all my hens began their...
(not sure if this belongs here or in illnesses)
Gretchen is a Rhode Island Red hen. Last year she laid her eggs with no problems, then took a break for fall/winter. All my other hens have begun laying for the spring/summer again except her. She likes to follow the other hens to the nesting box...
My lavender Orpington has this awful respiratory illness. She's been sick for over a month. She's got rough breathing, runny poop, decreased appetite, had extreme thirst, and now is underweight and do lethargic I can catch her. She's now got minor head shakes and I'm tube feeding her. She also...
I'm pretty sure my bantam white wyndotte had a tiny misfire egg. I found what I suspect to be her first egg of the season yesterday. She laid near where I found this egg. Her first egg would have been laid between 2-6 yesterday. I didn't see it when I put the chickens away at 8pm yesterday. I...
I got little Velveeta at a chicken show along with two bantam wyandottes. The only thing I know about her is that she was bred to trill/squeak instead of bwak. She's an incredibly twitchy little girl, is always trilling, and walks almost like a rooster with her head back and chest puffed out...
It just occured to me that y'all might be able to help me with another issue I'm having. My bantam Easter egger just started up for the spring after taking the winter off. Last year I had no problems with her eggs. This year nearly all of her eggs have varying amounts of blood streaks on them...
I have a two year old hen who is sick and I'm not sure what to do. There is only one vet around me who sees chickens, and I wouldn't go there if you paid me. They're worse than useless. I am at wits end and could use some advice.
She started walking slowly about a month ago. I thought she was...
It's been over three weeks since Penn got sick. Limping, blue comb, and weird chirping. The vet diagnosed pneumonia and put her on antibiotics. She didn't respond to them, so we switched to a different one. We've tried doxy-tyl, Baytril, and Tylan for her. I had another hen who had the exact...
Mausoleum is a very dedicated little guy. Each day he walks the hens to the shed they use a coop and guards it while they lay their egg. Then he walks them back to the flock. He will even happily sing their egg song with them. I put in some proper nesting boxes for the girls a while back, which...
My rooster is very, very tightly bonded to his little hen. They're never without each other. He doesn't care what happens to the other hens as long as his hen is safe. His hen decided to go broody (she has the WORST timing!) since she's been the rooster has gone a bit bananas. He kept attacking...
Two months ago my chicks in the brooder got sick. No symptoms except sneezing. Nothing I did seemed to help. Somehow it spread to my main flock, and then spread like wildfire. Again the only symptom was sneezing. No eye swelling or discharge, no nose boogers, nothing. Ever since then one or two...
The sneezing has upgraded into full blown respiratory issues unfortunately. One of the chickens sometimes breathes with her mouth open. Aside from that they are sneezing and scratching their noses a lot. No eye problems yet. Today I discovered white, milky poo. Whatever it is, my entire flock...
Whatever they have started in the brooder. I *think* it came from the brooder getting dirty while I was away over a weekend. The slightly older chick began sneezing, but had no other signs of illness. At the time the chicks had paper towels as bedding while I waited for pine shavings to get in...
She's a rescue from an older couple who didn't know how to handle chickens. The coop was much too small for the amount of chickens they had, and they weren't taken care of properly. She's always been the bossiest of the flock. I let them free range instead of being in a tiny coop and run all...
I adopted a flock yesterday from an old retired couple. I don't blame them at all for the state of their flock - they are in their 80s! There's eight hens, and I think they're about a year old? It's either a year old or four years old. Not helpful, I know. There's one specific hen who clearly...
I rescued Baby Girl and two sisters from a "hatchery" a little while back. She's gone from being in an unclosed area that has no food/shade and four thousand other chickens, to my garage with two sisters. Her sisters like to go outback a little bit now and then. Baby Girl goes out with them, so...
There's a "hatchery" nearby that "rescued" some chickens. (Which gets posted here once in a blue moon.) The chickens ended up being rescued from the "rescue" and I ended up with some. They're all mangled from stress, but this girl worries me the most. Her comb is droopier than the others, and...
Bit of a history: About six months ago someone gave me a male finch, and I got him a female shortly afterwards. (His last mate - a society finch - had just died and he was lonely) They were happy together and build a huge nest (He's a little overzealous about a nest) They had their first batch...