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I’m at a loss as to what to do. My Rooster doesn’t like to stand and will often lay down. These are his feet. I’ve scraped down the black spots that seemed like bumbles, but under the scabs is soft tissue (not hard bumbles. Do I need to keep digging or is this something else?

I have one hen with pretty bad Gapeworm. I treated with spot on Ivermectin at 1 drop per 50 grams. She needed 36 drops because she was just under 1800 grams. (I weighed her with my handy dandy sourdough scale.) Do I just give her the Ivermectin once? Or do I need to do it every day? I read...

I think we can all agree that a golden rooster atop the cathedral is a great choice! https://www.cnn.com/videos/style/2023/12/20/notre-dame-holmes-pkg-ldn-vpx.cnn

I got Fernando -- Great Pyranees -- as a pup to guard my chickens from coyotes and vermin. He's less than a year old, and so we're working through issues. He has discovered that chickens lay eggs and eggs are delicious. He hears the egg song and joyously runs over to the nesting box, and has...

So I got some chicks the last week of October. One of them is much smaller than the rest. She is the one on the right. She seems healthy, and isn’t picked on. Could she be a bantam? Or does she look unhealthy to you?

I have one hen that is consistently laying eggs with thin/ soft shells. Do I make them all eat a tums to get the one who needs calcium? I have roosters so do not want to feed later feed. What can I do?

Friendly reminder: it’s spring and the boys are feeling their wild oats. Make sure your bachelor coops are SECURE so you won’t be covered in blood when one of them gets out and challenges your head Roo to a duel. My boys are OK, other than some bleeding combs, but I feel really stupid for...

I made my roosters winter hats. Yes. I can already hear it. “They don’t need hats or heat, I live at the South Pole and my chickens live with penguins and never need heat or hats. I’m doing this for me. It makes me feel better when their heads are warm. Also. It makes me laugh. (I’m mostly...

My bachelors get along well but are driving my hens crazy. They were all hatched together, and now the boys are big enough to have their own space. The one question I can’t find the answer to is how far away from my hens do my bachelors need to be? I can easily block the hens from sight. But...

I have 14 chickens: 8 hens and 5 Roos. One is the head Roo and the others are babies. (Yes, I know the ratio is not good.) I found one single hen on the side of the road. I know it is not ideal to try to incorporate one hen into the flock, but, I really don’t have an option. After her...

My little 5 week old hen either has pendulous crop or she got into something that is causing her system to slow. Last night, she had a HUGE crop that was squishy like one of those gel stress balls and when I picked her up to try to massage it down, she immediately puked it up. It was dark brown...

I hatched out 8 babies and, of course, 5 were boys. But I love roosters because without hens they are wonderful little pets. So, how far away from the hens do I need to put my bachelor flock so I don’t have fighting and sneak attacks?

My old lady hen has Mareks. I am nearly sure of it because one of her legs doesn’t work, she has skin legions, raised bumps on her skin and green diarrhea. Her eyes also don’t dilate as well. I thought sure she had sour crop. (And, I think she did, I had to massage and give her clotrimazole...

It almost looks like acid was splashed on her but it is a bruise. The skin seems intact. The bruise goes al the way down and to the side. It is about 10 cm by 10 cm. It’s not swollen either. It appears she is bleeding under her skin. I’m stumped. And I don’t know what to do! Do I clip the...

This is from a 7 to 8 year old hen. She has been less active lately and drank a lot of water when I gave it to her. (But I just changed over to a different nipple waterer and maybe she hasn’t quite figured it out yet. She is also a bit underweight, but will eat when I put things in front of...

So, I’ve been noticing something on some other forums and wanted to see if this a trend There are 2 scenarios: 1. People are seeing their eggs getting stolen by people walking into their coops (many times in broad daylight. 2. Strangers coming off the road, seeing you have chickens and...

Ok. So. This the second time I am incubating eggs. I was turning my eggs because tomorrow is lockdown. BUT, two of my eggs have already pipped. So, I did the most logical thing I could think of: shut the door. But then, the humidity isn’t where it needs to be. So I put in 2 dishes of water to...

OK. Talk me down. I thought all my babies died in their eggs and I had one chick hatch, and I got so excited I HAD to do something so I candled the other eggs and marked the air sack. I promise not to do anything more. I hope I didn‘t hurt them. And now I wait. And I’m so excited! But...

Did I just hurt my babies?

I tried posting this before and I don’t think it posted. Excuse me if dupe. I just bought 12 hens that are 8.5 months old. The bleeder told me he doesn’t vax because some people want to eat his birds and he wants them to be “clean.” *sighs* Can I vax these birds? If so, what do I need to use...