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I have a 6-7 year old "only" chicken who went off food (Nutrena feather fixer) a couple weeks ago. Was still eating regular treats of dried meal worms and a few sunflower seeds. Also. an occasional pea or a couple wax beans I'd give her from the garden. Three days ago, noticed she did not come...

Yesterday, I treated a hen with Valbazen late in the afternoon because I found a roundworm in her poop. This morning, I found two more worms in a large poop. The worms were still moving, albeit very slowly. I checked the bottle and it expired in December 2018. In the past when I've treated with...

I found roundworms in cecal poop on 7/11/19. They were still moving. This chicken (yes, I have one chicken) has had roundworms before, and I have successfully treated with Safe-Guard paste (pea-sized dollop for 3 days) followed by re-treatment in 10 days with either Safe-Guard or Valbazen. This...

I found this poop about a hour ago inside the chicken run on top of some newspaper. I only have one chicken, so I know where it came from! It seems to have small, no more than 1 mm in diameter, eggs in a loose cluster in what might be some shed intestinal lining on top of the urates. She has...

I have a chicken who has taken to eating a lot of grit lately, both granite that I offer, as well as lots of little stones that are in the sand in the covered run. She only eats Nutrena's Feather Fixer as her food, and gets 1-2 red seedless grapes per day and maybe a 1/2 T of raw shelled...

In a poop today, I noticed a pinkish blob that I was worried was blood, so I took a closer look with a magnifying glass. I separated the poop near the reddish blob and was struck by the sight of clusters of tiny white spheres on or within the pinkish area. I took pictures with a high resolution...

I had posted recently about my lone chicken because she has been off her food, losing weight, sitting around a lot, having some loose poops, shaking her head a lot, yawning with her neck stretched out and most alarmingly had foam coming out of both eyes last Friday. Fortunately, the foam...

I have a lone chicken who has been yawning, shaking her head and having loose poop for a couple weeks. Yesterday I noticed white formy material coming from both eyes, and she was shaking her head a lot to fling it off. Later in the afternoon, it had stopped. I shecked closely and she had no...

I adopted two hens last fall to live with my one remaining Bovan Brown production hen who had lost her flock mates earlier in 2015. They were all integrated last October with the Bovan taking the position as top hen, which she had been with her other flock mates. In mid November she fell ill. I...

Well, the title pretty much covers it. I have a hen who has had poop clinging to her feathers for several weeks now. I've noticed that she strains a lot to poop. She's too wild to catch easily, but today I was able to grab an approximately 1 inch diameter piece of poop hanging off her feathers...

I have a sick hen who has been isolated and unable to take dust baths for a while. She has crop problems,so I've been holding her a lot doing crop massages and today I felt something crawling on my neck but just sort of ignored it. Later, I felt something on the back of my head and when I felt...

I adopted these two hens from someone who had 12 hens and 3 roosters of mixed breeds and sizes. She thought they were a combo of a bantam and standard size hen and about a year old. Other than that, she couldn't tell me about their parentage. I picked them out because they were smaller than the...

I have a Bovan Brown production chicken who is about 2 1/2 years old. I adopted her along with two other 1-year olds in May of 2014. I lost the other two within the last two months (5/14 and 6/12), one likely due to internal laying and the other with a large tumor of some type. Prior to this...

I have an almost 2 year Bovan Brown production chicken who had a problem laying soft shelled eggs, shell-less eggs and parts of soft egg shells last November, 2014. Now for the last 10 days she had had several crushed eggs in the nest box and today just a yolk. (She did have a couple typical...

One of my three Brown Bovans (production chicken) laid this strange looking egg this morning. I adopted these Bovans as one year olds in May 2014, so she is about 1 1/2 years old. She didn't lay an egg yesterday, which didn't worry me because she's been taking a day off every week or so during...