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So my oldest hen, a 6yr old Speckled Sussex has now been found multiple times stranded on her back with her feet in the air unable to right herself. A rooster stands guard over her until I find her in the morning when this happens, now it's been just a few days apart - this week the weather...

Perhaps I'm late to the party and this has made its rounds- but I just found the following video put out through Auburn University's Poultry Science dept. For those of us that aren't great at learning from still diagrams and descriptions, this is a great step by step visual learning tool...

I keep clicking on the wrong link because what I'm about to click on gets bounced around while the middle of the page ad loads- starts as a gray box, re-sizes itself, sometimes more than once, then the ad loads then everything moves again. The same thing happens with the side of page ad box...

I used FRP ( Glasliner 4 ft. x 8 ft. White .090 FRP Wall Board-MFTF12IXA480009600 - The Home Depot ) on my coop walls. I glued them to the plywood inside walls of my coop with FRP glue, then used roofing screws with the rubber gasket to secure them to the wall frame. Those screws help keep...

I'll be posting a reply, and mid-sentence and no other keystrokes by me other than what I'm trying to type - I am then typing nowhere. Sometimes I'm then taken 1 or 2 pages back, i.e. if I'm in a thread in the Emergencies section, I'm booted back to the main page ... just while trying to type a...

One of my older hens needs some help. She recently had an impacted crop and I suspect she aspirated some amount when her crop was quite full and she laid down, forcing liquid up. She does not have ascities/waterbelly. She doesn't have any discharge from the eyes or nose at the moment. We've...

Hi All, I did crop surgery on one of my chickens last night. As is to be expected, she's a little down today and the incision is warm- certainly not unexpected. Everything got sprayed with Vetricyn multiple times throughout the process. Plan is to give her aspirin, probiotics, and some...

I've had plenty of toes that start out pink and fill in the rest of the way with whatever the main color happens to be, but this is the first one of these I've seen- she's around 3 mo old now. They tickled me pink … ehhhr … blue …. so I thought I'd share.

My mail order chicks came this morning and I picked them up within 15 minutes. When I got home and opened the box, one was on her side, I assumed dead and took a picture for the hatchery. But as I picked her up, I saw her gasp to breathe. She was very, very cold, so I warmed her first with...

Our feet are in the picture for scale. We found three such piles on our gravel road, all roughly the same size. We're in Oregon about 25 miles outside of Portland in a hilly forested area. The poop was still very moist and definitely wasn't there a couple days ago.

These two beauties were "supposed" to be silver laced Wyandottes- obviously not, but no complaints. Very pronounced beetle green/purple even on a cloudy day (i.e. first photo). Any idea what they might be? (these were over on "raising chicks" form because I lost my mind and forgot there was...

OK so … I've never had this problem with any of the broody hens with however many dozens of chicks I've raised ---- I got chicks for my broody hen after she declined to be persuaded against broodiness. The problem are the two California Leghorns (they have little black dots in their fuzz)...

I bought chicks for a broody, so I wasn't too worried about breed, just finding babies little enough for momma hen. I was told these two were Silver Laced Wyandottes- but based on other SLW pictures/videos it doesn't seem right … so I'm looking to find out what they are.

My 3 1/2 year old barred rock is "eggbound" with a lash egg and I can't seem to get it to move for her. I nosed into someone else's thread earlier today as it came up on a search but I figured I should start a separate one, so if this sounds familiar, that's why. I know lash egg = infection =...

Hi all, I couldn't leave this little sitting there in the stock tank at the feed store getting run over and pushed about. Don't know if we can actually help it or if the kindest option is to send it on its way to chick heaven. It can still use its toes on the bad leg. There is a big...

Hi all, Found my poor little BCM chick limping badly this afternoon. She's out with her momma and siblings with the flock that is used to broodies with babies. I don't see any signs of a bumblefoot type scab- plus I'd say it's unlikely in a chick this age anyhow. My thought was to wrap it...

So like the rest of chicken keepers the battle is on to keep the chickens from enduring too much heat stress. We're in the middle of a big heat wave and I can't wait for it to end- but it's going to hang on forever. SO - Having done the normal - installed a poultry exhaust fan in the coop...

Hi all, A stray bunny that is clearly not a wild bunny has appeared at our house. We've put "found" ads out there, but in the mean time we'd like to try and keep him/her safe, though I don't know that we'll be able to physically catch it. We do know that our farm cat will happily kill...

Hey all, I'm sure most of us have seen some version of a video and/or pictures of the shell-less egg experiments, especially the one with the news clip of Japanese students doing the experiment- this is a much clearer, much more methodical accounting of the process with great photography...

Back in October of last year our hen went through a terrible 10 days- tube feeding and the works, and at the end of it, she passed a truly disgusting lash egg, then roared back to life. It was bittersweet- a little longer together with her but knowing this day would probably come. She's been...