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:( I’m sorry for your loss

Im so sorry to hear! Any idea what happened?

She is still not walking but she is improving. Gaining weight every day. What happened to yours??

Update! Gavi has recovered from sour crop after she vomited the rubber bands that impacted her crop. but she lost so much weight (half her usual weight) and wasn’t interested in food or water, 4 days ago I started to tube feeding her after spending tons of time reading all the great info about...

Thank you! I hope so too! I may have to tube feed her, I’m waiting for the tube to arrive today

@JackieDohoney what happened to your chicken? I’m having the same issues with mine

My 4 year old duff Orpington have and impacted crop that turned sour. 9 months ago (June 2023) I noticed that she was having issues breathing, opening her beak to breath and her comb turned purple. She was also shaking her head a lot like trying to removed something stock on her throat. I took...

Vespa GTS 300 on the way to the beach!

I had tried also for a few years to rescue from sanctuaries without success, specially now with the avian virus some of them are not accepting birds, we rescued Libby from the front of a live poultry market, she scaped her cage and we took her, we were walking by it at the time this happened, a...

Thank you for all your help and great info, here is a picture of how Libby looked when we rescued her, she has improved so much!

Thank you!!

We rescued this chicken from the slaughter house a couple Of Months ago and I’m wondering what breed is she?

What part of Queens/Bronx/Manhattan are you at?

Hello everybody! Thank you @Zud for creating this thread! Great to know that there are more fellow chicken keepers around the area!! I’m Caro,I live in Ridgewood, Queens and I’m also an urban farmer, I started chicken keeping 3 years ago, my flock currently has 6 chickens, but I’m adding more...

Does anyone near NYC have a black silkie female chick or pullet for sale?