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We gave a teacher friend six of our eggs, each of them very different so six different mamas. The dads are an ayam cemani from a local breeder on Craigs list who had too many and the other dad is a cream leg bar from TS (supposed to be a girl...go figure). The six that hatched are all very...

Tractor Supply has a big jar. In a FB forum, a chicken expert recommended this: Drench dose .30cc of corid 2x daily, for 3 days, or until she’s eating and drinking on her own. She's stepped away from FB so I am hoping to find an answer here. What is a drench dose? Is that straight from the jar...

Help! One of our girls has what once was dry pox and is, as of today, wet pox. The pox on her left eye is not a dry scab anymore but lots of liquid is building up in the eye and she can't see out of it. How do I treat it? Iodine is one solution I found plus anti-bacterial spray or Neosporin (not...

Help! First time dealing with this. One of our girls has what once was dry pox and is, as of today, wet pox. The pox on her left eye is not a dry scab anymore but lots of liquid is building up in the eye and she can't see out of it. How do I treat it? Iodine is one solution I found plus...

Hello! I read about a method to preserve eggs for long term: water glassing eggs. We have a flock with chickens, guinea fowl and ducks. Right now, we have a good backlog of duck eggs as well as chicken. Most of what I've read is that you need to water glass very clean, unwashed eggs. But our...

Hello! Just today I noticed one of our girls limping. It doesn’t look like bumble foot to me but then our experience with bumblefoot is limited to chickens. Could it be that she is injured or an illness?

She's very lethargic, found her sitting in a nesting box. She's also very warm and has leakage from her vent. How can we help her? Edit, in case it helps: She's a buff orpington. She was fine yesterday. She's always been on the skinny side. The feathers on her belly are pretty much gone...

Thoughts on either? We have a very weak, sick chicken. Respiratory distress, can't stand, needs to be given fluids. She was improving yesterday but this morning took a turn for the worse. Someone local to me suggested Poultry Cell so we just gave her 1cc of that. But they also recommended the...

One of our hens lays eggs daily which is wonderful. Her eggs are very, very thin-shelled however. When I collect eggs in the afternoon, hers will always be broken. Fortunately, none of the birds have cannibalized them but it's annoying to have to clean out daily. Everyone is fed the same way and...

So, right now, our birds are fed with a mixture of seed and pellets. In another group I'm in, one person said that the seed should just be a once-a-week treat rather than daily. Is that true? Have we been over-spoiling our birds? This is the stuff we give them: Old Fashioned Layer

Is there a way to encourage broodiness or do you just have to hope it happens? We adopted our five khaki campbells from someone who had too many ducks. In their coop, they went from 2 to 13 ducks more rapidly than they expected! The ducks lived in a very large coop along with chickens and a...

We are new to ducks. We adopted five khaki campbells about a month ago. They faithfully went into the coop at bedtime along with the chickens. Tonight, they didnt follow and are outside the coop. We left the lights on and we‘re hoping they make their way in soon—it’s after dark. Last night, I...

Is there a way to end this? I found our five Guineas hanging right on the nesting boxes. One egg had a hole remarkably like a beak did it. A couple weeks ago, one of the eggs in a nesting box was half-eaten. So I think this loud bunch might be suspects.

Our girls (12 layers) are spoiled with 5 nesting boxes. They have privacy and lots of straw, three of the boxes have fake eggs to help cue them. A couple of weeks ago, they mostly used four of the boxes though they'd still argue a little when a favorite box was occupied. Because the babies in...

we are seriously considering guineas to help with the big population. We have a hen who has week old chicks. Will it be possible to slip her some keets to raise or has it been too long since hatching?

Why on earth? This is new. She also has hiccups. Should we worry? She’s able to not make that noise but as she walks around she makes those little honking noises. She stops when she digs something up that has her attention.

No, we didn't put her in a separate crate inside of the coop. Yes, we added her as everyone else was sleeping. Yes, she did try to peck at other hens this morning. No, the others aren't having any of that. Yes, we have a rooster (so should he be keeping the other hens nice?) But this...

One of our hens has gone broody and started about four days ago. Today, I took some of the eggs under her because there were 17 of them! I let her keep 10 and marked them so we know which are new. I'm sure the other hens will still insist on laying in the same box because it seems to be a tough...

The center hen is quite a bit heftier than her batch mates only slightly bigger looking. She has no cheek feathers. She’s also so much less flighty than the other Ameraucanas. She’s pretty much our only shoulder chicken Is she a different breed from the others?

Hello! Our group of 11 hens who are about 6 1/2 months old have around half laying already. We would love to see them have babies (we have one roo). Some are laying in the corner of the coop and we’ve been eating those. At least two are laying in the crate set up as a nesting box and we plan...