hen care

  1. M

    Chicken injury- no mites

    Hello everyone! Me and my husband have owned chickens for two years now with no injuries or illnesses until today. I found my RIR hen missing feathers and plucked pretty severally/ bleeding from being plucked. We have no idea what the initial injury could have been as no predators were in the...
  2. Z

    Chicken Salpingectomy:help!

    Hi all! My sweet hen has been having recurring problems with laying eggs and our vet recommended that she get a Salpingectomy(chicken hysterectomy). Unfortunately I don’t have the money($3500) to get this surgery for her right now:( I am posting on here because I wonder if maybe someone has had...
  3. Motivesgeek03

    New Chicken Momma

    Hi! I am new to the chicken community. Just started being a chicken mom in the last 3 weeks. My daughter’s science class hatched eggs and we volunteered to take 3 chicks home. Built a coop and fenced it up in our back yard! We live our new animal addition, even the new puppy loves them. We...
  4. Z

    Hen in trouble! Help!

    my poor lil 8 month old Sultan hen is suffering! Last week she laid 2 broken soft shelled eggs and today she sounds like she’s drowning when she breaths.she has not laid an egg in 5 days! She is very loved and I just don’t know what to do. We don’t have any vets near by and cannot find anyone to...
  5. Chickycammy

    Betty Jo is sick! Update in comments

    Today, I went to feed my hen Betty Jo and something is wrong. I'm thinking maybe someone fed her something because her coop and run are next to the privacy fence and it would probably be easy for someone just to throw something over it. She's very lethargic, I had to force her to drink water and...
  6. GoatDragonFarms

    Chicken yard drama! Halp!

    Alright folks, we need help. The situation: We have 13 birds, mixed flock. One of them is a year+ old laying silkie hen. We have two 3.5 month old Wyandotte cockerels. The two cockerels hatched and grew up together with 4 pullets and have no problem with each other. They have gotten, in the past...
  7. TheRealFowlLove

    How delicate are chickens??

    Ever since I got my first chick I've been viewing chicken's as these fragile, easily injured fluffy babies that I must protect from falls and trips of any kind. I have panic attacks when they run too fast and turn sharply and put their wing out to turn; it looks and sounds painful! Don't even...
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