I figured variances would occur but I see a lot of comments on here of due to genetics color will always be the same—so I was feeling slightly confused, it makes sense!
We did a round of Corrid as a precautionary measure because we had just purchased 3 pullets from a backyard breeder and their...
Hi! Many questions here about egg color So I am relatively new to chickens; we started our flock last June-ish. We ended up purchasing 4 older chickens to start, 3 barnvelders and 1 copper maran—Harriet Sr. (We now have 9 chickens, 4 older hens and then 5 pullets. The older hens all started...
If I'm putting my hand in the correct place—lower on the right hand side, it felt like squishy/doughy? But where she's puffed up like right where her neck is puffed up it's hard—as if it's her neck bone?
So this chicken has been quarantined now for a couple of days and is progressively getting worse. She is lethargic, wobly, her wings are drooping and I have had to bathe her bottom (It's yellow-orange-ish) has insane discharge attaching to her feathers. I broguht her inside 3 days ago because of...
I'll go ahead and do the safeguard-I'm going to give her another epsom salt bath just so I can clean her bottom. Are safeguard and probiotics like yogurt safe to use?
Her crop (or I think it is? Seems enlarged and it is firm. That's why it almost seems like esophagus-y. Unless her crop is...
New to BYC, new-ish chicken owner, constantly using this place for help! https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-puffy-somewhat-lethargic-6-month-old-cream-leg-bar-with-pasty-butt%E2%80%94have-tried-many-things-but-not-much-improvement%E2%80%94help.1609001/
Hi, this 6 month old chicken has been exhibiting these symptoms for the past week-week and a half. She's been puffed up, lethargic and I have noticed a pasty butt on her vent area.
I have separated her and she is now inside so I can monitor her progress a little more/see if she was just cold...