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My 3 year old black Australorp hen(Bertha) has been having trouble breathing (she holds her beak open and pants) and she sneezes a lot, sometimes very loudly. Sometimes she shakes her head, but not very often. She is lighter than the other 2 hens. She had not been laying eggs for about 4 months...

Bertha, one of our three Australorp hens, has been having a little trouble breathing in the last week or two. When she is walking on the ground, she seems fine, she is active, chases bugs, and eats plenty and poos plenty. But when I pick her up or massage her crop, she opens her mouth and starts...

Yesterday, 9/13/2023, my hen Mary went into the nesting box at around 7 o'clock am, and stayed for about an hour but did not lay her egg. For the rest of the day she acted as if she had no eggs to lay, but at around 7 in the evening, about thirty minutes before my three hens, Bertha, Percy, and...

One of my hens, Mary, who is almost 3 years old now,

One of my hens (Bertha, who is almost 3 years old now) was acting a little differently this morning. Instead of running around, eating grass and bugs as usual, she mostly stayed in the same spot for a while. She had her butt slightly open as she did this. I was not sure whether she had trouble...

Can i feed this to my australorp hens?

This is our Australorp hen Percy. One day I noticed these pustules on her face, and I do not exactly know how they came to be there. She behaves in a perfectly normal manner, she has been eating enough, there are no signs of trauma or other damage to her, her poop has been normal, and all in all...

Mary, one of our three black australorp hens, seems to have stopped laying eggs about a month ago. she seems to be sitting down about 50 percent of the time when she's in the run; however, when we open the run door to walk the chickens, she runs out just like the other two, and chases after...