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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    She died overnight. Yesterday I force-fed her a couple tiny pieces of the bread soaked in oil and when I got home in the evening if I put yogurt on her beak she'd eat it so I thought we were going to get there. Last confirmed time I saw her eating of her own accord was Wednesday morning and...
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    Fowl pox or Frost bite or....

    I just went back to check the pictures when my girls had a suspected case of fowlpox and they looked more like dark blisters, not like what you have. (Blister-looking pustules on one girl, then of course that was the hen that went and pecked another girl in the eye and got that nice and...
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    Since she is drinking water though I did just add some ACV and garlic to her water for today until I can pick up something more for her...ideally the natural remedies would help her out but if she needs the stronger medicine I'll give it to her.
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    She just smells like chicken right now, so hopefully not so bad yet? Can this be a secondary symptom from her not eating much for the past day or two? Or is it likely this was her issue all along? She's still drinking a bunch of water but not touching the food still. She's still having watery...
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    @Eggcessive her crop feels squishy like a water balloon this morning. I did take the water away overnight. She's drinking water again this morning but not touching the food still...looks like a crop problem then? How to treat it?
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    Yesterday she was eating still with a decent appetite. Today she's drinking plenty of water but barely touches her food...I've had both chicken feed for her as well as this morning I offered her a scrambled egg and offered her wet cat food just now but she just acts like she doesn't see it when...
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    @Eggcessive I saw you commented on Cinnaminute's thread with her hen, any suggestions about my girl Ethel? Today seems both good/bad news with her being able to stand (though rather shaky) but also more disinterested in food. I did find an egg in the run this morning I apparently missed...
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    Day 2 update: her wheezing is worse this morning, I put some VetRX under one wing and on her throat. Both good news/bad news: she was able to stand up when I got her out of the coop this morning to medicate/get her tail feathers cleaned up but she's not much interested in eating/drinking, she...
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    Hen's sudden decline: weak legs, can't stand, mouth breathing, disinterest in food/water

    Hope your girl gets better soon! One of mine is acting similar but she's alert and eating/drinking still just has no strength to push herself up to stand. I posted a thread about her last night. Ethel's symptoms came on yesterday afternoon after laying an egg and she was up in the nesting box...
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    P.S. her comb's been like that, it got a bit frost-bitten in the two cold snaps we had this winter so it just kinda looks like that now.
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    Morning update: she was a bit lethargic when I got her up but that's probably because she hadn't eaten/drank much since yesterday afternoon. She did get a bit of food and water before bed last night when I noticed she wasn't just hanging out by choice, she really wanted the water more than the...
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    Need to rehome a young rooster (DFW)

    Yeah I'm in Texas...sorry!
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    6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

    Hi all -- my girl Ethel is a 6 month old black copper marans pullet and just this evening I noticed she can't hold herself up to stand. She is laying, and she did lay an egg today (I have a camera on the nesting boxes plus I collected 10 eggs for 10 hens) so she's not eggbound. She is alert and...
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    Texas

    I fail at compost piles but also because I'm lazy. How do you manage cutting up the browns? Like Amazon boxes what's the easiest way to get them small enough to 1) fit in the bin if you got something big and 2) small pieces break down faster anyway. Every time I think about cutting down those...
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    Need to rehome a young rooster (DFW)

    Which breed or is he a mix? I ended up with all hens and am looking for a black australorp rooster for potential hatching eggs in the next couple of years. (I also have black copper marans and crested legbar pullets so I'd be interested in a rooster of either of those breeds also).
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