My hyline brown chicken has not been eating properly for 3 days now. She seems lethargic, has buff feathers, purple comb. Recently, she has only been eating fruit like nectarine which may suggest the yellow poop colour? I have given her coccidiosis treatment yesterday in her water. Today, I have added electrolytes and calcium in her water. Has anyone experience anything like this and what is the most liekely condition based on your experience?

Yesterday, I posted than my hen had laid first egg in three years. Today, when I went to remove it to stop her brooding, I found 11. I am perplexed and very happy 😀

I don't know if this is more common than I think. Someone gave me this hen and her sister three years ago. They laid eggs for some weeks and stopped afterwards. I reckon they were around three years old when i got them from a friend of my mother in law ( they couldn't keep them anymore although my suspicion is that the hens were laying fewer eggs and the owners didn't want to kill them).

Anyway, fast forward three years, yesterday afternoon and today morning this hen didn't come for food ( they are free range). I went to the coop, looking for her. When I saw her, I thought she might be dead but to my surprise, I saw an egg. She was covering three quarters of it with her body. This afternoon, when I went to check out, she was fully covering it, so I remove a feather a little bit and took the photo. Then, I covered back.

Is this more common than I think, or because most hens are killed after stopping laying eggs, there's not enough data.

To be honest, I am ecstatic 😀

Does anyone have any advice on finding good chicken hatcheries in Europe and more specifically in Spain?

Hello there. So, recently a friend of mine has been having trouble dealing with daily mortality of layer birds in laying stage. They don't present any prominent signs of any disease. Eat and drink well and go about their daily routine but overnight 1 or 2 birds expire. Drooping is also normal (except for being a little blackish for a couple of days) but overall pretty normal.

During postmortem there's no prominent lesion as such. Breathing is also normal. What could possibly be causing death of these birds?

I have two roosters (in separate coups) and one of my hens was killed in what seemed to be some very aggressive, forced mating. I want to reduce their spurs but I'm not sure of the best way to do it without harming them too much. I see many people have done a pop and twist-off method, but that looks like it does a good bit of damage in exposing the flesh to infections ans pecking from other chickens. Any suggestions?

Hi everyone, so I reside in the UK and have raised and looked after bantams my entire life and when I no longer have any more chickens I wanted to start afresh and have other poultry as well. I would be interested in having chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl and quails (possibly have geese and ducks as well but is not a priority) I've done some research and have a vast area with enough space for all of them to be living together but I would put my quails separately due to their size.

My main concern is what is safe to feed the all the chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl since they would all be sharing the same feeding area. Google has said that 16-18% protein layers pellets & mixed corn would be good feed for all of them with the quails most likely having chick crumbs/ground up pellets as they need smaller food.

I wanted to check to see if this would be okay or if anyone had any tips before I set off to start anything because if there's not a possibility to be able to have the poultry eat the same food then I'm not sure I would get them because of costs as buying lots of separate animal feed from different places can be costly and was hoping if someone with more insight to raising these types of poultry could give me any advice thanks in advance

Is it possible to reach the 3.75 calcium req by only using 3% additives? this is for Lohmann chicken pls help:(

Looking for tips on how to find a Tom Turkey. There are so many scammers out there. I’m trying to find a heritage Tom Turkey for my 2 Narragansett girls who are 6 months old. I thought I found one on market place but pretty sure it’s a scam bc there’s no way anyone is going to send me a 6 mo old Royal Palm from GA to NC for $70 total. Any tips or legitimate sites that you have had success with? Any ideas on how to integrate them once/if I do find one?

Hello friends,

My mom is seriously considering raising poultry, and I'd like to get her a good beginner's guide for Christmas. Can anyone recommend some good basic poultry books that would cover ducks and chickens? We live in northern midwest America if that makes any difference.

Posted almost a month ago about intestinal shed poops. I was getting a good amount of them for a while… it slowed down to only finding one or 2 very minor ones a day some days none after searching. Until 2 days ago I found a single roundworm in their poop. (Was dead). I’ve decided to go the natural route and bought natural dewormer tablets with all the worming herbs. Using ACV in water, garlic, red pepper flakes.

My problem is I have lots of phobias surrounding parasites and haven’t eaten any of their eggs in months. Probably around 100 eggs have gone to waste. I know people still eat their chickens eggs when they have a presence of worms, because “it’s inevitable and almost always have some form of a parasitic pest”. I’m constantly worried in tracking in parasite eggs on my clothes or the dog is tracking them in with his feet that’s gonna make us and the kids sick. Can anyone help give any peace of mind with their experiences?

Our local guineas had their first batch of eggs this month, so to give them a better chance at survival, we've been taking care of the babies as they hatch, yk heat lamp, food, etc. Now only 2 have died sadly, just from being runts I assume. But one has been laying on the floor since it's hatched. It drinks fine when I help it with a syringe filled with water, it's wings are fine, legs kick fine, no diarrhea to my knowledge. Yet it CANNOT stand or won't try. It seems to ONLY fall towards the left, the others are perfectly fine and run around all day so I don't get the problem!!! Please help I want the lil guy to live.

Hi all. Need additional opinions. This is bumble foot, right?

Can anybody tell me what this might be? She/he doeant seem to have vision in this eye. Keeps it closed untill after i clean and medicate it blinks more but pretty much keeps the eye closed

I clean the eye boogies apply oil of oregano to the eye No fever small amount of swelling compared to the other healthy looking eye That white spot looks the same as eye boogies I clean off but its clearly not the same thing

Picked up two girls today - both have feathered legs and were sitting when I got them at the sales. Now the are home I have noticed they seem to have what I think is scaly mite? Both walking fine, feet are fine it’s just the legs. Is this scaly mite? As I’ve googled and the pictures look different. Just want to get on top of it if it is.

I came out this morning to see my favorite duck chewed to pieces. The head, neck, and vent area were all eaten and torn apart.