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On Tuesday I went to let the chickens out and found one of my 3 month old chicks dead on the floor of the coop. There was a blue ting around it's eyes, but no other weird signs of illness. I chalked it up to it maybe being a weak chick. But then, Wednesday I found one of my bantams dead in the...

I have an ill maran hen. She's a year and half old, and has had no previous illnesses. She's actually been one of my hardier birds. I let all the chickens out this morning, I noticed that she didn't come out, but didn't think anything of it. I just went out to check on them, and I found her...

I got Miss Frizzle from a friend from high school. My friend had 12 chickens and 3 ducks. One day the ducks pulled all Miss Frizzles back feathers out and dragged her around the yard. This is her a couple days after it happend: My friend kept Miss Frizzle in the house for about a...

One of my friends has her chickens and ducks together and this would be fine, except the ducks tried to mount the little frizzle hen and ended up pulling all her back feathers out. I have taken the hen to my house (where there are no ducks) but it's pretty chilly out so she's currently in the...

My chickens have gotten colds from time to time, however this seems to be lasting longer than usual. My naked neck turken has had a cold for the last couple of weeks. I kept thinking it would go away and it hasn't. She just sneezes occasionally, but this morning when I let the chickens out of...

I started working at a new urban farming store in Portland a year ago, we have chickens at the store and I started learning a lot about them. I couldn't keep them at the house I was living in at the time, but I I just recently moved into a house where I could get chickens and I jumped at the...

Hello! I am new to having chickens. I bought a little red coop off of craigslist and I got two 5 month old chickens (red sex link and a naked neck turken) from a coworker and one 7 month old buff Ameraucana from a breeder. I've had them for about 3 weeks now and last week my two young chickens...