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Hi all! Has anyone here gotten LCMV from mice in the chicken coop? We've been dealing with mice around our coop for the past year or so. We are trying to trap the mice, but in the meantime we've had droppings that I've cleaned up periodically. I have since learned about LCMV and am so scared...

Hi everyone! We have a 2.5 year old cochin. She started sneezing from time to time a few weeks ago and lately it has gotten more severe. Yesterday I noticed her open mouth breathing/gasping. I posted a video link that will hopefully show up. I started to give her tylosin in her water. Does...

Our two-and-a-half-year-old lavender Orpington has been acting funny and we are concerned about egg yolk peritonitis. Can chickens still lay when they have this condition? She has been laying some soft-shelled eggs the past few weeks and some normal ones. She also has been laying sometimes in...

Hi everyone! My two year old Salmon Faverolles has a large portion of her comb that is black. I went out of town a week ago and she seemed normal. It's been hot here, but I had a friend make sure she had fresh water. When I returned, I noticed that her comb is black. I just returned so I...

We had five sweet chickens in a mixed breed flock. They are our first chickens are somewhat pet-like for us. Today we put our sweetest one, a porcelain d'uccle, down. She is our first chicken who has died and I just feel awful and guilty for taking her to the vet for euthanasia. Has anyone else...

Do you have any suggestions if I found a bit of blood in Sweet PDZ on the roosting dropping board? Should I treat for cocci? I have several chickens who just started laying this week for the first time. When cleaning their coop today, I noticed a 1/2 dime-sized red sweet PDZ on their dropping...

I have a four-month-old white cochin and a mixed flock of 7 chickens aged 4-6 months. I noticed some of them sneezing from time to time and noticed some gray congestion in the cochin and a 6 month old salmon faverolles. I took the cochin and the salmon faverolles to the vet today. They'd never...

Hi everyone! Here is my sweet 3 month old Cochin. She has recently started making a honking noise. Could this be her voice changing or could she be sick? It happens very often throughout the day. It doesn't happen when she's eating. I brought her inside and she sat with me on the couch for a...

I have a 9 week old lavender oprington that I bought as a sexed female chick from a hatchery. Does she look like a roo? She's larger than my salmon faverolle and of course the two bantams, but I don't have another orpington to compare her to. She just seems big to me and I've wondered about her...

I just got some sweet chicks in the mail today. Two of them are blue laced red wyandottes. Can you tell from these pictures if they are black, blue, or splash? Do I need to wait longer to know?

Please help! I have a 2.5 week old salmon faverolle chick. Two days ago I noticed she seemed a little tired so I put Corid in the water. Today she is very lethargic, not eating, and is having white diarrhea. I gave her a little molasses by her beak and started giving her drips of the Corid...

I have a little baby 2 week old silkie chick that chirps nonstop softly when she is awake. It just started this evening. What could it be? It sounds a bit like the chirping at 1 minute and 40 seconds in this video: It's not a loud distressed chirp, but it sounds a little anxious. It started...

Hello everyone! I am a first time chick mom. Although I've cared for other people's chickens before, I find myself worried about my own babies now that they are all my responsibility. I am so grateful for this community and its insight. If a chick has cocci, would its droppings be consistently...

I'm raising baby chicks for the first time. They hatched on Monday and I received them Wednesday. My cute baby buff silkie was very weak at first. It barely opened its eyes, would sway, and would stay sleepy. I was able with vitamins, hand feeding, and dipping its beak in water to help make it...

I received chicks yesterday and one was really weak at the time. It is still not eating as much as the others. I noticed these droppings with watery brown liquid around them. Is that normal? I'm not sure if it is from the weak chick.

I received chicks yesterday and one was really weak at the time. It is still not eating as much as the others. I noticed these droppings with watery brown liquid around them. Is that normal? I'm not sure if it is from the weak chick.