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—sensitive topic— Hello! I had a couple chicks hatch yesterday. One took an extremely long time to zip, but eventually hatched on his own. He’s been very weak the entire time but I left him in the incubator to rest. Unfortunately, the healthy chick took it upon himself to start eating the weak...

Hello! I have a hen who is an ISA brown who has been acting different the past couple days. Yesterday I noticed her sitting off to the side by herself and shortly after that she passed a soft-shelled egg. Today she has been free-ranging like normal, but all the girls like to take a nap in the...

Hello! I’m wondering if anyone has experience working with americaunas and olive eggers? I hatched these babies out 5 weeks ago. The feathered leg is the olive egger and the clean leg is the lavender americauna. They act pretty much the same, they are just feathering in different. Olive egger...

Hello. I have four Silkie Cockerels. They have been on starter grower feed. They are now 16 weeks old. I would like to move all my chickens into the new coop at the same time to prevent fighting. I was planning to move my layer hands in today but I know you are supposed to not start layer feed...

Hello! I want to preface this by saying that I have had an ongoing respiratory issue in my adult flock and the silkies in this video are separate from them, but I still worry they could be "sick." My adult birds seem to have viral bronchitis and have had off and on sneezes since December. I've...

Hello! I have some 9 1/2 week old silkie babies. There is a little gray one who based on behavior has acted like a rooster since he was very little. I just moved them out to the coop a few days ago so now he can hear the adult hens and rooster. My original flock has had a respiratory illness...

Hello, I was out locking up the birds and was missing one. I called for her and thankfully she answered, I found her upside down stuck between some hay bales and the wall of the coop. She’d been outside like that for I don’t know how long. She can’t walk right now as she loses her balance, but...

Hello! I brought four hens home about a month ago and have noticed that they are sneezing. There is no mucus, and nothing comes out when they sneeze. They had lice when I got them, but I treated with Elector PSP and got rid of it now. Otherwise, they seem healthy - eating, drinking normally...

Hello! I need to worm my birds (I can see long skinny ones in droppings). I bought safeguard goat wormer 10% and I know the dosage is .23ml/pound administered orally. My question is one- can I put the correct dosage on a piece of bread and have the bird eat it instead of trying to get the...

Hi everyone! My mystery snails from my fish tank had... A LOT of babies. I know there is the risk of gapeworm from wild snails, but would pet snails have that too? The parents were from a pet shop and the babies hatched here at home. I don’t want to kill them all unless they can make a snack for...

Hello! I bought five chickens from a lady this summer without realizing they all had lice pretty bad. I've been treating them since August for lice and I can't get rid of the darn things. I'm pretty sure they are lice and not mites, although they may have those as well - who knows. I've used...

Hi everyone! I've finally made my way back to BYC after many years of not having chickens! I used to keep chickens when I was in high school and loved them dearly, but had to go away for college and had to sell my entire flock :( I was so sad! But, finally I am graduated and couldn't live...