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This is something I have been wondering about for a long time. I'm so glad I found this article!

Thank you very much for the help!! I am relatively new at raising chickens and have never had a problem like this before.

How long should I soak his foot? Should I wrap his foot at all or just leave it unwrapped after applying the blu-kote? I knew breaking the blister was probably not recommended, thanks for confirming that for me. What should I do if the blister breaks on its own??

My 4 week old baby Rooster's foot is swollen, has a sore on top of his foot, and a blister on the bottom. When I checked on all of my new chicks on Monday evening they were all fine. The next day, I was checking on them and see this one hopping on one foot. As I looked closer I saw his band had...

Thank you so much, I'm just worried about what to put on him because I can tell by looking at it he must be in pain, and really hope I can find something that also has an analgesic in it.

What brand of antibiotic ointment do you recommend to treat frostbite on a Roosters comb and wattle?

One of my red sexlink pullets, Ginger, chases and eats field mice....lol. You should see when she catches one.. the others will come to see and try to take what she has caught from her and she will pick it up and take off running with it... they all chase after her!!! It is Hilarious! lol I am...

I just went out to check on her and the other chickens.... and now she seems perfectly fine! No breathing difficulty, no mucus from her nostrils or anything. Eating and drinking normal. I have no idea what it could have been early this morning at all. I am baffled!

Her breathing sounds raspy and maybe wheezy. I will try to get a video shortly.

When I went out to collect the eggs I noticed one of my pullets (red sex-link) making an abnormal breathing sound, otherwise looks and acts normal.... It has been very cold out down in the single digits. I have a 3 other red sex-link pullets, a brown leghorn pullet, and a brown leghorn roo...

Yeah, I think that must be it. I just don't understand how her laying is so spuratic and Ginger has laid 11 days in a row since the day she started laying.... different hens, who knows...lol.

UPDATE ON ETHEL: I gave her a warm bath the next morning after my previous post, and still no eggs... This makes her 6th day in a row without laying, I'm still not sure why she stopped after starting, but hopefully she will start again soon. She is acting totally normal and perky, and today for...

I held Ethel on my lap and massaged her underside for a little while, then I let all of the chickens out of the coop like I normally do. She went straight to her dirt hole by the deck and spent at least a half hour taking a dust bath...lol She then went to the waterer and drank a bunch of...

I just checked her vent and she is not egg bound. I also checked her crop, and it feel normal, I think?

This is Ethel, she is 18 weeks old, and she is the hen I posted about yesterday that laid the egg with the paper thin shell. She is normally very vocal and active, and I have caught her sleeping like this several times today. I'm a first time chicken Mom and don't really know what to do...

Pics of my Rooster, Bow... and my 5 hens, Lucy, Ethel, Ginger, Maryann and Peck.