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The chickens have special pellets for worms. As for parasites, we have treat them for parasites. She was old and stopped laying a year ago. When we took her to the vets about a year ago she had a virus and the vets offered to put her down but she lasted another year. Might have been a disease...

I lost Pearl today. I need to find some closure because I'm not sure what killed her. She had been ill over a couple of weeks but my mother decided not to take her to the vets because they would just put her down apparently. Her symptoms were her comb was pale and flopped over. She had...

she went into the nest box for an hour no egg. She's come back out and huddled under the vegetation in my garden. Any ideas?

Hi, I need some help, my hen really doesn't look well. Over the past 2 days her appetite has dwindled and she seems depressed and sick. Today I went to let the hens out, she came out, looked at the floor, but wasn't really foraging or doing what hens would normally do. She then sat down and...

Yeh it did play some sort of part. She definately had crop problems, but we only found out once she passed away she also had sour crop. Though I made sure she was given anti-biotics, she only had 1 day on anti-fungals. Perhaps not enough to alleviate her. I know that her poop showed serious...

Very true, best possible advice one could give.

Hiya Rebrascora, It's really cool you're in the north-east. I don't totally feel alone with the only one ever having chickens. Thank you for the very nice reply, it has helped me a lot. The position I was in was a perilous one, having found out she was out of sorts somewhat early, it didn't...

Thankyou. It's good to be here. Not feeling great. Miss her loads and asking myself loads of questions.. Could she have been saved. God dammit.

Today my beloved hen, Olive, died today. She'd been unwell for quite some time, but the problem was that not me or anyone in the family knew quite what was wrong with her. She did get to see the vets a few times, but it was not until the final few days I was able to get a clear diagnosis that...