Posts by Jessie66

Awesome! Just what I wanted to hear, thank you so much for replying.

  Just wondering what you think of my 2 month old chick.  The father is a Cochin banty, mom is a polish cross.  There is only one chick.  It's comb has hardly developed at all yet.  It kind of jumps up at...

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/721651/pics-tumor-or-injury-please-help-with-treatment-advice#post_9902537   This is another post I made for her.  She didn't tolerate the cute little jacket for long...LOL

My hen is doing ok.  The growth is still there.  I stopped treating it like an infection as it is just dry and hard, not smelly or oozy at all.  It is still rather large, and when she lifts her right leg up to take a...

I have used dry ice to put down a hen that was very sick.  Dry ice emits carbon dioxide.  You can get it at any place that sells oxygen for medical purposes.  You put some in a container, pour warm water over it, and...

Maybe she is has an ear infection?  and can't balance properly?  I hope you find out what is wrong.

Could this have been caused by her picking and eating her own feathers?  Since I have put on her jacket, she has pulled out and eaten the feathers on her legs.  Is that from lack of something?

      So I was wondering if anyone has seen such a thing before?   It is hard but not like a scab, it's more like a mass of tight tissue.  She constantly pecks at it.  I don't think it...

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/204603.htm   Thanks for the link, I looked around a bit and it seems like this is what she may have (breast button).  I don't know what may have caused it?...

I have been treating my hen (3 yo Cochin X bantam) for scaley leg mite with Vaseline because her legs were looking thick and she was starting to limp. I checked her feet for Bumblefoot and could not see anything.  She has also...