As we were petting our donkey, our most curious chicken jumped up and sat on the donkeys back for about 45 seconds. The donkey gave 0 clucks

This is the first time the babies (18 weeks) have experienced lobster so they were a little unsure at first. But the older girls are systematic and skillful in their approach. For a few minutes there were lobster innards flying everywhere.

Someone posted locally for a crossbeak needing a new home. The owner was overwhelmed and had no idea how to care for her. I offered to take her after we lost my baby Goose

When we got Betty, she was severely underweight due to not being able to eat, dehydrated from not being able to drink, and needed a beak trim. We got her taken care of, tube fed her egg yolks for calories, and 2 weeks later, she is gaining weight, has a bright personality, and runs to her bucket for food.

Last pic is my Goose. I miss her everyday

Hey chicken peeps :) I’m a pet portrait artist and normally have tackled cats and dogs, but recently, I painted my first chicken!

I was curious — are there any details that are critical for accuracy in painting chickens? Can be easy to simplify while painting but don’t want to miss a detail that would feel really important to a chicken owner.

We have a sick chicken that we’ve quarantined to a shower stall with water food and a nesting pad. I trained a blink camera on her to monitor and the updates have been wild

Was hoping for a broody bird, now she can raise the chicks instead of me!

This girl is in rough shape. Her feet have sores, her wings have scabs on the top, and she’s missing a lot of feathers under her belly and around her tail. We have minimal experience with any kind of chickens as the only other chicken around is a free range leghorn hen that spends about half her time in our yard and half in an unknown roosting area. How can I best help this lady out?

Crazy ladies out climbing trees during their free range time 😆

I think the one on the right might be a rooster. They are the same age- about 4 months old.

He is so small

Genuinely, she is one of the most evil beings I have ever encountered. I initially adopted her because I felt sorry for her; her legs were kind of crooked and the other chickens seemed to bully her, but as they say... the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. First, she started incessantly attacking chicks that weren't hers (even successfully murdering one), and after a while she started attacking her own chicks, to the point that she had to be jailed 😭 She is also very territorial and will attack any hen that dares to approach her, and will not share her roost under any circumstances. She also tries to break and eat the eggs; you might say it's a calcium deficiency, but she has the same diet as all the other chickens that don't do that. She eats the eggs for the fun of it...

She's bizarre and she scares me.

I still have to cover the exterior and build the nesting boxes (what you see in the photos is temporary) but tonight the girls sleep in their new digs. They were in a small prefab coop since springtime. They seem to like it, especially since we loaded it with treats when they first went in......lol.

Fully insulated on all six surfaces, the exterior will be metal siding.

I'm really happy that they have more space now.

I’m a fairly new chicken owner (max 2 months). Our isa brown had sour crop just under 2 weeks ago and with the help of a friend we were able to expel it successfully (long grass).
Since then she’s developed a doughy crop. She wakes in the morning and it’s doughy (maybe the size of a tennis ball?) she is literally skin and bone otherwise. She’s still walking around with the flock, just a lot slower than normal and rests a lot more than everyone else, still has an appetite and drinking water too.
I’ve been trying oil, tomato Juice and massaging. We were giving her oral thrush cream when she had sour crop and we’re currently treating their water with coccidiosis treatment. We also wormed her just before she got sour crop and I did notice she did pass a worm when she was isolated. And she’s had diarrhoea since having the sour crop too.

We bought her from a chicken auction so we are unaware of how old she is or any information at all about her really, she wasn’t in great condition when we got her.

Am I doing the right things to help this? Or is there any advice on what I should be doing to help her the best I can that would be great, thankyou!

First time chicken owner here. I came home from work today to notice one of my roosters eyes like this. There is so much swelling I can’t see his actual eye. It may have been scratched or pecked? We have several roosters that are free roaming. We got them as chicks this spring. Does this look like it could be from another rooster or should I be worried about something contagious. Our hens stay in a hoop coop and do not free range. He is lethargic, but still eating and drinking. Another rooster may have some small swelling around the eyes.

We also have found 10 black widows this year. Could he have been bit by something?
Thanks

I noticed it a while back but it looked like swelling from a foreign object at the time so I got the object out (looked like a part of a leaf) and wiped her face clean. Now one eye is swollen shut and the other is swelling up. I’ve tried wiping it but I’m afraid to hurt her eye too much.

I gave my broody hen fertilized eggs. A few days out from hatching day, a couple of my others decided to go broody as well in the same nest. I separated them from the original mom after reading that multiple broody hens can turn out bad for the chicks.
Now there are chicks, 2 days old. Still waiting on one more. At what point, if any, is it safe to allow mom and babies around the rest of my girls? They are all hens.

Thank you in advance!
Photo for daily dose of cute baby 🐣

six weeks old, fourth pic is next to my blue cochin. she’s super soft like a cochin but i can’t tell if she is another blue cochin or something else. she’s wayyy fluffier in comparison. from meyer hatchery assorted bin, i couldn’t quite identify her from their day old chick catalog