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I've recently been feeding a hen back up after I left her with family for 10 days and came back to find her with gapeworm, a severe throat infection and in a state of emaciation & dehydration She was treated for the worms and infection with Noromectin and Baytril, and that cleared up fine...

This is in the same chicken that I posted about a few days ago (see here ). It is now healing up very nicely, and it appears to be a scab with healthy new skin forming underneath it However, whilst treating her for the above, I saw what I thought was a layer of mud on her foot. So I sponged it...

My 3 year old Orpington hen went broody about 5 or 6 weeks ago, but in such a half-hearted way that I didn't really need to break her up. Anyway, she lost all her feathers around her breast, and hasn't really regrown them (due to our current heatwave?). Today, when I picked her up, I noticed...