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I had a hen die last week, and the necropsy results revealed she had an abundant tapeworm infestation. No worms or eggs were noted in the gross pathology, but there were 50+ eggs reported in the fecal float. I have never seen any worm segments or eggs in their poop (I have been checking every...

I have three roosters, a 4 year old EE, a 3 year old legbar, and a 9 month old EE/legbar mix. The EE and the legbar lived together in peace for 3 years with no issues. The legbar can be aggressive at times, but once he faces retaliation he chickens out so the EE never felt threatened. This...

(Reposting from reddit because the people on reddit are not helpful) I had a hen get the back of her necked ripped off yesterday, about 2" long and an inch wide. Sounds severe, but this is the fourth time I've dealth with this. I have absolutely no idea why they feel the need to scalp each...

I had a chick hatch yesterday with the most severe cause of an unabsorbed yolk I have ever seen. Calling it an unabsorbed yolk is almost downplaying it. Along with the yolk, there was a good chunk of intestines hanging out. I ended up euthanizing the chick shortly after it hatched. To be honest...

I have an 8 week old cross between an EE hen and a white legbar roo. The EE hen I suspect to be her mom has faint lacing on her back but besides that doesn’t have much patterning. When she was a chick she had very defined chipmunk patterning with a spot on the head. She was a very slow featherer...

I have a chick who I was sure was a cream legbar when she hatched, but as she has gotten older I'm starting to doubt that. She looked just like a cream legbar pullet when she was a baby, but she is feathering out way different than a cream legbar pullet. I don't have a picture, but her legs are...

I checked underneath my broody for chicks around 2:45 this afternoon and found this guy shrinkwrapped pretty bad. Its hard to tell in the pictures but the membrane all around her neck and shoulders was really stuck to her. I helped her out and put her back under her mama, and she is fine and...

I have a first time broody girl right now about 10 days along with 6 eggs. So far she is a very determined mother and she even clucks to her eggs, it's all very cute. Sadly, my other hens are less understanding and 5 days ago she lost an egg to another hen trying to get into her nesting box. I...

I'm new to this site (joined about a month ago, so not super new), and wanted to say hi! I have 13 chickens in total as of right now (Easter eggers, buff orpingtons, light brahmas, you know standard backyard breeds), and have 6 baby chicks in the brooder (2 cream legbars, 2 frost legbars, 1...

I got two cream legbar chicks (both female) yesterday from a breeder, and the breeder only breeds cream legbars and frost legbars, so there is a very small chance it is a mixed breed. However, one of the chicks looks like it has very faint feathering between it's toes? Cream legbars should be...