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I have a very sick hen who has just returned from a hospital visit where bloodwork revealed her liver enzymes are high. 520 I think. She spent two days there on supportive care. When they released her the vet said she was eating and drinking on her own, and her poop was normal. I have not...

I have an 11-year-old hen who is having some breathing problems and it’s supposed to get down to 4° in a couple of nights. She can no longer roost and rest on the floor of the raised area. I have six other healthy adult hen in the flock, I wonder if I should bring her in. For the night. I worry...

I have a hen who is almost nine years old. As temperatures plummet to single digits over the next several days should I bring her in? I have a flat panel heater in the roost area which raises the temp a couple degrees above outside air, and seven other hens. But she sleeps at the top of the...

I posted earlier this fall about my old hen, age 8 1/2 getting bullied by a 2 year old hen. Both are Buff Orpingtons in a flock of eight. As suggested I isolated the bully hen for 3 days in the basement and then in a dog crate in the run for a couple days where the others could see her. When...

I have a flock of eight Buff Orpingtons. They range in age from four are about 30 weeks, one is 5 1/2 years, two are 2 1/2 years and one old gal who is 9 1/2. One of my 2 1/2 year olds is jumping on my old gal and pecking her comb. Drawing blood. The most recent episode she really injured...

I seem to have a dysfunctional flock. My four older hens have battled over roosting spots for over a year. My coop was designed for eight hens. It is a garden coop if anyone is familiar with that design. There is only room for one roosting bar. My oldest hen (8) has taken to sleeping in a...

My eight year old Buff Orpington had a vent prolapse last Tuesday. I took her to the vet because I could not get the prolapse to stay in after cleaning her up, administering cortisone cream and reinserting it. The vet sutured her vent to keep the prolapse in and prescribed antibiotics and...

I have a young hen who is super aggressive during her molt. She has been molting about two weeks. Yesterday she attacked my lone older hen who is also molting and has arthritis and cannot get away quickly. She put a hole in the older hens head. I have my old girl recovering in a hospital...

I have a 7 1/2 year old hen who has become lethargic, does not want to eat or drink and has clear droppings with slightly yellow urates. She was acting completely normal until two days ago. She also is in the middle of a molt, which is early but this is commonly when she molts. All other...

I lost a chicken suddenly last evening. I found her dead in the run when she had been fine just moments before. No sign of injury. She was eating, drinking and laying eggs normally. She was just a year old. The only thing I can think of is she had a bit of loose poop and I bathed her about...

My dear Henrietta died last night of mysterious causes. She was a six year old Buff Orpington, and the leader of my flock. She is buried now under her favorite Bridal Veil bush. I did not perform a necropsy and our vet had informed me that unless she does it immediately after, birds...

Last Friday, my ten week old chicken whom I am sure was developing into a rooster (he had been crowing for about a week) died suddenly. I was tending the little chicks in their coop in the morning. He was scratching and pecking around with the others when suddenly he fell over, had a seizure...

Hi. I have 4 three week old Buffs in a puppy playpen brooder. They have occasionally had a butterscotch like poops which I don’t recall from my other broods. I had been giving them medicated feed and a probiotic in their water but for the past two days I have given them plain water. This...

I have a six year old Buff Orpington who presented yesterday with a prolapsed vent. I bathed her, sprayed the area with Vetericyn and with gloved hands tried several times to put the prolapse back in but it kept popping out. Fortunately my vet was available and she was able to put the prolapse...

My hens are in the middle of a molt and my husband has finally gotten around to making some coop changes which involve changing the pop door and ramp to eliminate a winter draft problem. Will this stress my hens too much? It is a minor change which will just switch the way they get up into the...

My 5 year old Buff Orpington, Henrietta, is exhibiting signs of shock with no sign of external injury. I found her sitting in the corner of the paddock last night when I went to put the chickens in for the night. Her comb was pale, she was breathing through her mouth and her feet were cold...

I have a flock of five chickens. Three are approaching five years old. My typical feeding schedule is to give them a couple cups of dry crumble (Layena) in their hanging feeder which they have free choice. During the molt I started feeding them moistened Feather Fixer, about a cup in a small...

Hi I posted in August about my chickens not wanting to roost together. They appeared to have resolved the problem but now that the weather has turned colder they are at it again. For a few weeks now my two new ones (now 8months old) are sleeping on the floor underneath the roost just at the...

My big girls won't let my new girls on the roost. They keep shoving them off. Every night is a fight. This has gone on for over a week. My new ones are 21 weeks old. They have been together for almost a month with the young ones going back into their grow out coop to roost for the night...

I sent a fecal sample to my vet so she could check for worms. She called and told me that though there were no worms, she found the sample was full of cocci. She recommended that I treat the whole flock with Corid, but I don't know what dose. She then went out of town. I don't know what to do...