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Question: I have started putting chicken saddles on some of my hens whose backs are bare. It's rained a lot since then, but I'm not seeing dirt on the saddles. Does that mean the roosters are just not doing their thing with the hens with saddles? Does that mean the roosters don't like them and...

I visited a friend today who has several chickens that have crooked bodies. The tail and back part of the chicken angles off to the left. I pulled this photo from the internet, but it shows what his chickens look like. Any idea of what it is? Heredity? Mal-nutrition? Disease? Thanks

Hi. I have a young hen who has one swollen eye. No coughing, sneezing, oozing or anything else. She eats and drinks, but I just can't figure out what she has. I gave her 3 doses (injections) of Tylan 50. No change. Then I gave her 3 doses (injections) of the antibiotic that starts with an...

I was out of town and my husband called and said he found one of my young pullets dead by the coop. No blood or any sign of something attacking her. He said she seemed healthy the day before. That was 2 months ago. Last month, I went out of town again and when I got back, my frizzled Naked...

Daughter played with her young serama rooster last night. He was doing great. This morning he is laying in the corner half dead. He is an indoor chicken with only one female with him. No way to get bad food, water, etc. Any ideas?

We use our home for a vacation rental (If you want to see: https://www.facebook.com/#!/BearRidgeLodge) When the renters left, their 7 boys had apparently played pellet gun wars the whole week all over our 25 acre property. I am finding the little pellets all over!!!!! I free range my...

It started with one small chick who got a runny nose and watery eyes. She sleeps in a giant dog crate in the garage with a few other chicks. Now two of my adult birds have it. The adults stay in the coop, but free range during the day. The small chick is so "dry" feeling.. she is wasting...

Hi, the other day my DH and I were delivering a coop to a lady. I went to look at her chicks that were in an old old small coop. There were about 15 chicks all trying to sit on top of the water feeder and food feeders. The floor of the coop was wire and they didn't like it. Anyway, one of...

I got three chicks at 1 week old. Two of them had very large heads that I thought added to their cuteness. Those two did not thrive. They stayed small, hardly grew any feathers and both ended up dying by 1 month old. The other chick with the normal head is growing like normal. Did the two...

Hey, my daughter just told me a friend of hers from college wrote a cute children's book about hatching chickens so I downloaded it to my Kindle Fire. It was wonderful and accurate! It's called Samantha Hatches the Chicken Egg by Daisy Griffin. If you have kids or grandkids, this is a great...

My 16 week old pullet can up lame on day and is weak in one leg. She just can't seem to put weight on it. She goes down on her hock and I understand there is such a thing as "Down on the hock" Can this be cured? What do I need to do? Any suggestions?

My 16 week old pullet has started to limp. I looked at her foot...and it looks fine. I think the pain is in the joint between where her feathers meet her legs. She looks healthy other than that. What should I do for her?

I have just become interested in Frizzled polish chickens. Is there a thread on Polish chickens? Does anyone have any hatching eggs available?

I know I go into the edit public profile, then what? Do I go to Jabber? What is jabber? Or website? I just wanted to add some personal info. Thanks.

Hi, I know that a white earlobe = white eggs and red earlobes = brown eggs. But my EE has a mint green earlobe. Does that mean she will have greenish eggs? My silkie has a blue earlobe and we all know they don't lay blue eggs. So, what is with the mint green earlobe? She has a pea comb and...

I am interested in learning about breeding/incubating chickens. I am a newbee in the world of chicken though. Does anyone live near Dawsonville, GA who would be willing to show me how to incubate eggs and breed special chickens? Or can anyone suggest books/websites to read about the subject?

I live in the north GA mountains. We have just started letting our chickens out to free range. Today we saw a black bear close to where our chickens were. We shooed it away. My husband thinks it wanted the chickens. I am thinking it really wanted the bag of deer corn we had in the garage...

ok, so all you experts. What are the secrets to sexing young chickens?. 1. I heard that you can tell by whether or not their wings are all the same lenght. What ages can you do this? I'm not talking about the day old feather sexing. I'm talking about like the 5-6 week old ones. Is this...

Any guesses on this Maran/Ameraucana chick? It was suppose to be an Olive Egger, but it has a single comb. Found out it is a 7/8 Maran and 1/8 Ameraucana. It is about 5 1/2 weeks old. I also noticed black spots on its comb. Is that normal? Also has some wattle already developing. More...

This little chick is about 4 weeks old. She is suppose to be a third generation Olive Egger. First Generation was BCM and EE. They took those chicks and breed it back with an unrelated BCM. Then I think they took those pullets and breed them back to another unrelated BCM. I want a chicken...