Posts by rrrsmom

Quote:Originally Posted by viktoriacl Did you look at the bottom of her foot?I did.  I don't see anything that looks unusual.  I picked her up today and turned her over like a baby doll.  She's feeling thin to me...

I have a sultan hen with a very injured leg.  I don't see any cuts or swelling.  If I run my fingers along the bone I can't feel anything that feels broken or out of place but she seems to be in horrible pain.  This...

I know I'm a day late and a dollar short.  it's the story of my life, but I'd like to share a bag of DE with someone in the Salt Lake area or buy some from someone who has that 50 lb bag sitting around.  Any takers?

First i want to thank Chickengal505.  Quote:Originally Posted by Chickengal505 She's got what sounds like to me a sinous infection and when she has fliud in her crop such as water and the mucus is draing into her crop it causes...

I still need more help. Please let me know if I should treat all the girls with the antibiotics. Is making her vomit just once ok or should I do it a couple more times just to be sure?  How do I know if I got it all out.  Do I...

I just checked on her and she's drinking and alert.  She seemed to want to get out with the other hens and pick at the grass.  I'm still keeping her isolated until I know more.  Please let me know if I should treat all the...

Oh and do I put the electrolights in with the antibiotics or do I let her do antibiotics alone and then electrolights?

Thanks so much for your help.  I got her to throw up until her crop felt completely empty.  At one point I thought it felt empty and then she let me have it again.  The stuff was dark green and super smelly.  Either...

ok, so I gave hre some oil.. (I cut the end off a fish oil capsule made for humans) and dropped it, drop by drop in her beak.  Her crop is large, the size of a large lemon, but not hard at all.  My husband described it as so...

my 3 1/2 year old sexlink chicken looks like she's trying to gag up something.  I picked her up because she layed down and looked like she couldn't move.  I ran her into the house and she threw up, then she acted like she felt...