Is it pussy? I had a chicken with an eye-infection (presumably because another chicken pecked her or something). It was pussy and foggy. We isolated her, and bought terramycin antibiotic ointment from Tractor Supply. We put it right on her eye (I forget how often or for how long). She was better...
So this is normal? These hens have all lived together for a year, and we've never had a pecking order. We brought her inside last night and have been soaking her bottom thinking it's a blocked egg duct. Do we need to do anything else to prevent the egg plucking? Is there a possibility that they...
This chicken is about a year old, and her bum is swollen and missing feathers. It is not tight, but it feels warm (although I'm not sure if it's warmer than normal). I couldn't feel an egg inside. She's not lethargic, and I saw her poop. None of the other chickens have missing feathers, so I...
I have a chicken who appears to have blood around her pupil in her iris (not on the whites of her eye). She's eating and drinking, normal poop, not limping or anything. It doesn't look swollen or pussy. I'm wondering if it's just a burst blood vessel, but my internet searches aren't giving me...
O. M. G. you're my hero. As a vegetarian chicken owner (which I'm sure is the bane of the existence of most BYC forum members), I don't know how you did it. But it's super-hipster to use a traffic cone. Whoa.
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Jeez I hope not. That's where I got my chicks.
Anyway...baby chick outbreaks aren't all that uncommon. There were big outbreaks in 1995, 2006, and 2007. You just gotta wash up real good (http://www.cdc.gov/features/SalmonellaBabyBirds/). I just took a graduate class in food pathogens .
My husband (the son of an electrician and grandson of a carpenter) is not very handy, but he was pretty proud of the coop he so diligently crafted. He works for a company that trains adults with disabilities and at-risk teens to deconstruct buildings, and then a storefront resells the materials...
I've been trying to comb through the search results on the symptoms, but I'm getting really confused by all the information.
I have 6 12-week old chickens, and I've seen at least two of them have yellow-tan diarrhea. I've also seen one with blood clots in her poo, and we found at least three...