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I gave her Calcium, Selenium, and Electrolytes. Guess I'll see how she holds up. All seems to be good for now.

She seems to be back to normal now. I've not given her any meds or vitamins for the last probably 1 1/2 - 2 weeks. She gets around just as she did originally. I'm wondering if I should possibly keep her on Calcium daily or periodically or just kind of see if it happens again? Thoughts?

I have a Rhode Island Red that's probably about 3 years old and is having trouble walking. She seems still somewhat perky, if you will. She's not blah or droopy or anything. She just can't walk very far. She's not laid eggs in a long time so she's not egg bound. She stays in the coop and...

I have a Rhode Island Read and she is probably 3 years old. While she seems half-way perky, not drowsy or "blah", she's not using her feet much. She just kind of hops or drags a bit. She stays in the coop and last night she did 'bounce' over to get inside in the house, so she is mobile a bit...

How does one get peritonitis and is it curable? I lost my hen recently with the swollen red butt, however, she wasn't eating anything either. And definitely not perky. Maybe it was something else.

Unfortunately we lost her last night. Bummer. Even though she had an attitude and pecked me a lot, ya still hate to lose them. I still wonder what the problem was. I did just read a post where they had the same situation and after the hen died they opened her up and found a tumor. So one...

Forgive me if the answer I'm looking for is in an earlier post but when I did a search for bald swollen butt, I got these posts. And while they started a few years back, there were 14 pages so I didn't read them all. I have a Rhode Island Red and she's 1 - 1/2 years old and she's been my...

I have a Rhode Island Red that's probably a year or better and she's been a faithful layer. And they're huge. Anyway, she stopped laying a couple of weeks ago and now she's lethargic. Actually now she's not doing much of anything vs. lethargic. I've been giving her antibiotics and...

I have a New Hampshire named Becky (Bitchy Becky actually - but that's another story). Anyway, she's become lethargic and feels like she has a fever. Very warm compared to the others. She was laying eggs regularly until about two weeks ago. She just stopped and like I said, she's not...

I went in to check on them in the coop and tell them good night and I held her (Becky) and she seemed very warm like she has a fever. Any guesses on that and what to do there?

I've got one doing the same thing too. She's a New Hampshire and a reliable layer with huge eggs almost every day until about a week or two ago and she stopped laying. I've noticed today how she's quite lethargic and not interacting with anyone else. I was wondering if maybe she was possibly...

So I'm assuming it worked?

Her yawning is methodical. Every other second essentially. It's not like she's gasping for air, it's just like a reflex or something. And as far as her eating, she's not eating anything. I've tried pieces of hard boiled egg and other things, but she doesn't even peck. I just squirt stuff...

If I start her on a vitamin therapy am I just grasping at straws. Because, the initial problem (that I saw anyway) was the 'yawning'. Would that be caused from a vitamin deficiency?

I'll continue to do what I'm doing for a bit and watch for signs of progress. Do you know a half-way descent way of culling if I need that? I can't shoot her; what if I/we miss? Plus I don't want that stuck in my head. Don't want to chop off the head and watch the body flop around. Anything...