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    Young Hens with "contagious" egg laying problem?

    Hello all! My name is Joe and I am new to Backyard chickens. I am a big fan and am excited to join the conversation! However, I do wish my first post was focused on a subject more positive, but 3 of my 4 young hens are experiencing difficulties in laying. We have 4 hens all of which are...
  2. M

    Odd white spot on beaks

    Hi all, Yesterday afternoon, I went out to see if the birds were using a new type of water dish I put out for them. It had only been about 5 or so hours. The dish has nipples they have to push to get water. I did catch 4 of the 7 birds and used their beaks to push the nipples so they would...
  3. E-Moo

    Old Quail Hen, Health Advice Needed

    Hello! I have an old (3.5 y.o. at minimum) quail hen, Tsapa. Shes our little grandma bird, who outlived the rest. She's been getting slower and less active for the past few months, but I chalked it up to old age. She was still able to move, eat, and drink, fine but just napped a lot more. In...
    • E-Moo
    • Thread
    • health concern health issues quail quail age
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Quail
  4. F

    Poor girl can't catch a break

    Just a few weeks after nursing my poor girl Little back from what seemed like death's doorstep (coccidiosis and sour crop) I think she now has fowlpox (see pic) - am I right? I've been reading there's no cure so any thoughts on what I can do to keep this girl as healthy as possible would be...
  5. MiaS

    Doughy Crop Question

    Hi all. I have read many articles and forums to help me deal with what I think is doughy crop in one of my ladies. I have tried what feels like everything to clear it. I've tried the yeast buster recipe, monistat and also flucanozole. The crop remains fuller than it should be and still doughy...
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    HELP! SUSPECTED SOUR CROP!

    HELP! SUSPECTED SOUR CROP! I suspect sour crop in two of my chickens and I don’t know what to do. They’re crops look larger than normal and feel jiggly and squishy, not hard. One of my chickens crops went down after a couple hours and the other hasn’t. I know sour crop should be treated...
  7. M

    20% mortality rate and rising

    I pre-ordered 100 white American Bresse from Dunlap Hatchery earlier this year, vaccination for Merek’s included, and got my first shipment of 50 day-old chicks in the mail on Friday. 1 DOA, nothing unusual there. I moved them into the brooder with little fanfare and left the DOA out back for...
  8. GoslingHelpNeeded

    Nevermind!! Gosling Just Had Food in his Nose. 😅

    Hi there, I’ve hatched two geese and they seem to be growing and doing very well until today. They’re a week old today and one of the goslings sounds slightly congested and I’m worried. His third eyelid is slightly covering his eye like dogs or cats when they are sick and he occasionally...
  9. A

    Bristol Stool Chart for Chickens

    Well, not quite a Bristol chart, but as close as I have found. It hasn’t captured every fecal variation, but it has a lot of good information. Maybe we can build on this and have a “Visual Poo Clearinghouse” for normal and abnormal poop to aid in our hen care...
  10. Yucky_ducky_kentucky

    Squishy Egg that has cracks but doesn't break. What's going on?

    My silkie hen just started laying but her first eggs have been squishy. When I press down on them they don't break open but crack everywhere and are very pliable and easy to morph into any shape. Does anyone know what's going on?
  11. K

    Huffy Puffy, our puzzling hen

    Helllo everyone. I have come to this website many times with all my questions regarding my flock, but I have yet to get a solid answer for my most puzzling question of all. My hen, Huffy Puffy, wheezes and doesn't cluck or make mutch sound. The weird part, she doesn't have discharge or watery...
  12. FriendlyNeighborhoodPeeps

    Chicken not breathing right!!!

    When I went to check on my chickens as I usually do, I was looking in the coop and heard what I thought at first to be a seagull! I later found out houwever, that It was our 6-6 1/2 month old Easter egger pullet, Bean. She’s breathing with her mouth open and it sounds raspy. This is definitely...
  13. S

    Silkie chick swollen featherless neck pecking wound pictures included

    4-5 week old silkie chick. Developed small wound weeks ago assumed from pecking dispute due to small brooder. Only two chicks in brooder. Both placed in very large brooder, site cleansed and Neosporin, and no pick applied. Feathers appeared to be filling back in, 3 days ago feathers spear to be...
  14. SegiDream

    Really odd feathers. Is it genetic or a health issue?

    My buff laced brahma cockerel is almost 5 months old and has some odd feathers. I'm not sure why, maybe it's genetic (inbreeding or note purebred?) maybe it's a health issue, tried looking through old posts and couldn't find anything like this. A little history on him. I got him and his...
  15. Derikoma

    Unsteady Chick Won't Drink; Food Repeatedly Stuck in Mouth

    One of our four black ameraucana chicks we got two and a half weeks ago has recently had issues eating and I'm unsure as to the cause. She has been repeatedly getting food stuck pretty tight in the right side of her beak the previous two days(which we have cleaned out several times now in hopes...
  16. chickees

    Please Help!! Chick has flesh sticking out of vent and is inflamed and always sleeping and lethargic...

    We have a 2 month old chick who we noticed hasn't been good over the past few days, so we took it in and started force feeding it electrolytes (with water). Then it got worse and had the flesh sticking out which we assumed is prolapse. We've been giving it epsom salt baths to help with that and...
  17. P

    Chicks with red beaks?

    My family recently bought 4 chicks (peahens we believe), Two of them have a darker coloring and a red beak, where as the other two are yellow with black stripes and orange beaks. Their feathers seem to be coming in a bit slower, they are 2 weeks old. I just want to know if this is a danger to...
  18. Wonderling

    Large hatchery/feed store bought vs. Backyard bred and best crosses?

    From the few experiences I've had growing chickens I've had more health issues with any chickens bought from a feed store thus from a large hatchery, than the ones we've hatched either from our neighbors hens or our own. Maybe this is more of a hybrid vigor factor since those hatched with us or...
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    Pigeon disorder

    My pigeon has multiple nodules over the beak and the surrounding the eyes. They are of variable size. It cannot fly but can walk well.Is it a pox or what? How this condition can be treated?
    • Prakhar
    • Thread
    • advice dove dove advice health issues help help ! help asap pigeon pigeon advice pigeon help
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Pigeons and Doves
  20. A

    Roo has saliva only when eating

    I recently noticed my 8 month old roo have saliva whenever he eats. This only occurs when he eat so there is excess saliva and he can’t eat the food. I don’t think it’s a crop issue, because the previous day he did eat some and when I felt his crop on the morning it was empty. In his mouth I did...
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