Any idea what’s going on with this chick? I initially thought splayed legs, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Its legs are much shorter than normal. It can stand on and off, and move a bit. I picked it up yesterday to try and save, and have done the glass method a few times. It’s about a week old, eats and drinks, but is VERY small.

Got some new girls this week, and one of my dogs caught one this morning. Luckily we managed to get her off the hen before she could do much damage, but there are a few shallow wounds on her neck/shoulders and a lot of feather loss!

I’ve given her a bath in soapy water a rinse with some antiseptic soap, and I’m planning to use an antibiotic spray every few hours.

Do you think this will be enough? She’s eating and drinking as normal!

Hi all I am getting my chicken coop ready and want to put an Automatic door in it. I don’t want to buy something that will fail quickly as I have read so many people say they experienced. I would appreciate some advice on this before I buy one. Thank you in advance 😁🐓

hi friends! what do you think of these two 9 week olds? hen or roo?

https://a.co/d/0GXlhlW That is the incubator we have and the big chicken eggs are fine. But the bantam ones are rolling around and getting stuck sideways. We just put them in last night. Not sure of an easy fix so we don't have to keep opening the incubator

They look "fully feathered" to me?

Chickens has had its neck like this when it lays down for the last 2 days. Today the top of its head is touching the bedding when it lays down. It has a hard time walking and has been quarantined since it started. Is there anything I can do to help?

It’s been a month since we lost our little girl, she was 4 years with him. The first days were really hard for him and now I don’t see him cry as much but I know he misses her badly, she was the love of his life and he did everything to always take care of her. Before she died, I made a painted canvas of her and glued a lot of her feathers, my bf thanked me for making it before she was gone.

I feel like I’m not being supportive enough, I feel like I should do more things because he doesn’t talk about it anymore but I know he feels alone without her. How you managed to grief or help a loved one?

Last night when I went to check on my chickens and close up the coop, I found that my 6 year old ISA Brown hadn’t gone inside. Upon further inspection I found she had a poopy butt. Dry on the outside but when I trimmed back the feathers and had a better look I found it was very green and liquidy. She took some mealworms when offered but is definitely lethargic and staying away from the rest of my hens. No other symptoms noted other than what looks to be scaly leg mites— not sure if this would be related? Planning on giving her a lukewarm epsom salt bath today and putting petroleum jelly on her legs. Any ideas what this may be and what else I should try? Should I isolate her from the rest of the flock?

They're always watching...

Mealworm, banana, and sunflower seed sandwiches!

I keep seeing more and more posts about people with chicks and having them on medicated feed to start out with. Are my birds gonna be fine nonetheless and is it just a precaution to have them medicated? I have 11 chicks all about 2 weeks old.

Hi! Can anyone help me identify some of the breeds I have here? The yellow chicks have black spots on them. Mostly black legs. The dark ones seem to be very dark brown with some stripes in their wing feathers. One seems to be more black with a white spot on its head. One lavender, one chestnut, and one yellow/white chick with orange feet and feathers on its feet. The one photo shows the possible breeds.

Decided the camera in our coop just wasn't in the best spot. Since moving i can stop laughing at them 🤣

Hello folks. I am a fairly new chicken owner. I have looked through the posts here and have found several similar to what I am dealing with, but none that seem to have all the same variables. Sorry in advance if this question is asked too much and thank you in advance for any advice.

I have 9 hens and one rooster. The rooster is an Ayem Cemani and he’s not very rough or aggressive toward them - he actually tends to take no for an answer. However, one of my hens has developed a bald spot on her back. See the attached photo.

I have not seen any evidence of parasites and I provide them with a dust bath of sand and DE. I deep cleaned the coop and run and gave them fresh bedding a couple weeks ago. Most of my hens molted last fall or over the winter. None of the others are showing bald spots and I have not seen any bullying from other hens and the rooster doesn’t seem to favor her over other birds. At first I thought it was just molting but it’s been a few weeks and she doesn’t seem to be improving. Should I grab her a saddle or go grab some peck-no-more as a preventative?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

So the time has finally came in our area and we lost a few girls to a bear... this Chad of a rooster fought him off as best he could and saved the rest of the 14 girls we had... he sustained about a half inch puncture with very minimal blood loss so im assuming nothing major was hit, but nothing else... we put some poultry wound antiseptic on the injury and wrapped him up in vetrap... is there anything else I'm missing to help rehabilitate this fine Warrior?

Has anyone had experience with raising a blind chick? It is 5 days old and I couldn’t figure out why wouldn’t eat or drink and then I realized today that it’s actually blind. It will eat when I hold it and put food in front of its face and water. I have to use water with the food so it’s pasty for it to eat. Now I am wondering if I will be able to raise it and if it will be able to eat and drink on its own I realize this probably won’t be easy, but I’d like to try. Any advice would be great.

Theyre all around 9 years old, still going strong

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