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    sick chook - mites?

    Thx. I just had another look at her - no progress. I tried pinching her feet and no response. Perhaps my previous assumption about the paralysis was wrong. I'm in Australia, so there is a chance she was bitten by a spider. If there is no improvement by the morning, I'll have to help her on...
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    sick chook - mites?

    Hi and thanks for your comments. I don't think its mites. She is still alive. Here are the symptoms: * Very weak and emaciated - can't move legs (from weakness rather than paralysis I think) * runny, almost liquid poos - from yellowy white to clear liquid. * the skin under her feathers is...
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    sick chook - mites?

    Hi all I just found one of my chickens in the corner of the pen with its head on the ground and eyes closed. When I picked it up its legs are prone and its head drooped. There was a couple of yellowy white poos under it. It seems really thin and weak. I have read some threads and that suggest...
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