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Hey all, I have a hen who’s pretty lethargic. Noticed it yesterday. She’s sitting around a little during the day which is unlike her , comb is drooping, and she has a pasty green-yellow fecal discharge. She’s also sleeping on the coop floor tonight which is very peculiar for her. Besides that...

Hello, I have a five year old Dominique hen who’s having trouble walking. She stumbles around and can’t put weight on the leg well. Her toes are also curled slightly inward. It started around yesterday when she got out of her area and with some of the roosters (I keep her physically separated...

Hey all, I have a 5 year old Dominique hen who’s became a recluse. She almost never comes out of the coop by herself, she just sits in there all day and I don’t know what to do about it. She looks healthy, eats and drinks normally when I bring her out, and doesn’t act sick in any way. The only...

Hey all, I want to start selling hatching eggs online (Ebay, etc..) just as a side profit to pay for my chickens. Problem is, I don’t know what would sell well. I’m looking to get around half a dozen new birds for breeding, either a hybrid or a purebred lineage. I have ideas of starting a...

Hey everyone, I’ll try to condense this with as much necessary information as possible. I have a hen who is about 9-10 lbs (rooster size, not obese) that suddenly became lame in her right leg one morning. She keeps tilting her head up slowly and jerking it back down often, and her balance also...

I have a broody hen sitting on a clutch of a lot eggs that I’m planning to candle tonight. She’s quite far along, I think about 2 weeks now. If I have too many viable eggs, what should to cull them? Should I get and area to separate her from the other chickens? I have 2 roosters so I don’t know...

Hey all, I lost a hen yesterday morning to some unknown predator. I’ll be getting batteries for my trail cam today to see if I can identify it, but I thought I’d also post her to get some input. I have a separate coop and run from my main coop with two hens. It’s used to separate from the rest...

I have a hen about one year old now. Found her like this today. Her eyelid is very inflamed. Other eye is totally normal. There is no bleeding to the eye or eyelid itself but it looks serious. Any cure tips? What should I disinfect with? Any tips on to nursing her?

Hi all, Tl;DR I have a problem with a large raptor and need to know if geese would help in this situation, and if so, what information should I know about them to prepare myself? I’m trying to find ways to safeguard my flock from raptors. I know that continuing to keep them confined in their...

I have a sex-linked hen (about 4 years of age) she has lost a lot of weight and her sense of balance. Her crop is not full, and she’s acting recluse. One noticeable issue is that she keeps jerking her head down every few seconds because it keeps tilting up. What do I do?

I had a flock of 17 birds with 16 hens and one Buckeye rooster. We've had 2 hawk attacks on my hens prior with both leaving the hawk battered and my hens uninjured thanks to my rooster, he's been a good boy. Yesterday, I lost my rooster to a hawk. His feathers were the only scattered so I assume...

I'm having a hard time right now as I keep losing a bird once a month. Started in May, lost a year old Light Brahma. No prior incidences, but couldn't walk and refused to eat. Didn't pant/show signs of heat stroke. Happened when I let all of my birds out on a cool, but humid morning. Coops are...

I have a red sex link hen who I’ve had for a little over 3 years. I’ve noticed she’s been reclusive and slown down in her movements. Recently, she’s lost a lot of weight and has wet poop. She lost all strength to walk, and just sits. She’ll doze off while she’s sitting and her comb is floppy...

I have just transitioned 9-10 week old chicks to the coop, and they’ve been locked in the run/coop area for a couple days now when I’m not present. Problem is, they put up such a fight trying to go in the coop, and start getting very loud once I shut them in. The coop and run rests about two...

I have a Black Australorp that was bought from the “rooster” bin at a feed store. The chick is 9 weeks old exactly. Do I have a pullet?

Hey everyone, I had a Light Brahma hen that just died this morning. It was very sudden, and I'm a bit bewildered. Could anyone help narrow down what happened to her or give any advice? I'll be writing what I observed, and will be posted a picture shortly. Background information: She's a rescued...

Hi everyone, I have three rescue hens I saved from an overcrowding situation the day after Easter. I identified one of them to be a Light Brahma, and I’m unsure on the other two breeds. These birds are as large as my Buckeye rooster for scale. I’m thinking the white one is a White Jersey Giant...

I brought home 3 rescue chickens the day after Easter from an overcrowding situation. They’re all in a quarantine pen right now, and have their own coop to sleep in too. My whole flock has began to develop these black spots on their combs right after I brought them home. They’re already on a...

Hi again. I have cumulative chicken issues and I need help solving all of them.. So my neighbor and I just saved 10 chickens from overcrowding, and I took 3 home with me. I put them all in my closed off coop with a run so they will have time to acclimate to their new area. One of the chickens...

I apologize for making my 6th article on the same hen, but I just want to try to find a correct diagnosis for my hen. I have a 3 year old red sex link hen who’s been acting strange this whole year. Her health is declining and I might euthanize her if she keeps getting worse. Here’s her symptoms...