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    Older hen seems 'off' but I'm lost on why...

    Thank you for your perspective! I do worry she may be showing her age a bit. She just had so much spunk a mere few days ago. That said, some updates have clarified a few things. I think her blah-ness and lack of appetite may be due to her ongoing bumblefoot issues. She didn't get her wrap...
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    Older hen seems 'off' but I'm lost on why...

    The last couple of days, I've noticed that my 7 y/o GLW has lost her interest in eating. She'll tentatively go up to food and sometimes gingerly peck at it and drop it, but eats very little to nothing. I thought she maybe wasn't feeling well (and we had been hit with a cold spell), but her...
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    This is heartening to hear! My girls did just fine through the worst of it and generated a good bit of heat for three chickens in a big coop (it was 14 degrees in their coop and 0 outside when I let them out the worst morning). Now I have one struggling for unknown reasons, but the extreme...
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    Good to know! I'll maybe invest in one for next year! Luckily my three ladies did fine... the night it went down to 0, when I came to let them out in the morning, it was 14 degrees in their coop, so they did a good job creating heat.
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    5 gals, so around 40 lbs. I have done it before (last winter) and it really brings the temp up on single digit nights. But didnt have all the ice last time on the way down. Going to dip to around 2 by early morning but sunny, still, and back past 30 by tomorrow afternoon--so hopefully they will...
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    Honestly, because the path to their coop is a steep hill that is pure ice, I'm worried about carrying them up and falling. And, as you said, I worry about the stress as well as disrupting their acclimation process--which is well underway from having spent a good amount of time this past week in...
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    As things warmed into the 20s yesterday and the upper teens today, they were doing great--active, out and about. We're plunging into the lower teens now, with an overnight low of 2, though it'll head back up to 31 tomorrow. I'm still on the fence on if I should bring them in for the night--I...
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    Thanks for your response. Luckily only the shortest ventilation side (right by the door) is where the predominant winds will come through, so that should be easy to block. I checked on them again and they are just fluffed up in the coop. They look cold, but I'm assuming just standing together...
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    Three hens in single digit temps

    SWVA here. My flock of 7, over time, has become a flock of only three (3) 7 year old hens. They have done fine with night-time lows down to around 7 degrees F, but on those occasions, it warmed quite quickly and was not en extended cold. They are currently out in the run active and bright at 10...
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    Mystery Convulsions and Aspiration - Crop or Gizzard Related?

    Thank you for your response--and sorry for the delay in my reply (I'd been traveling). She did fully recover from her aspiration, somehow. So long as only give her feed (as a mash so she gets water and food) in smaller portions throughout the day, she seems to move everything through and no...
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    Mystery Convulsions and Aspiration - Crop or Gizzard Related?

    Two days ago, I was sure my 6 y/o BO was dying. She was having almost seizure-like convulsions, wings down and acting drunk (terrible balance), almost like an extreme bout of involuntary crop adjustments. She then started expelling large amounts of non-smelly fluid, including chunks of...
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    Possible Sprain?

    My 6 y/o EE started limping a few days ago, very subtly. Generally, she walks normally and still uses both legs, though as she speeds up to a run her limp becomes way more noticeable (hop/skip type thing). At first, I figured it could be a minor sprain so a gave it a couple days. She seemed to...
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    Monistat Overdose?

    To update, she is still going strong, but the monistat is slow to work. I think it's gotten better in that her crop mostly empties overnight and isn't nearly as big, but I still notice a sour smell when dosing her, and she isn't yet eating/pooping normally. I'm worried about her getting enough...
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    Monistat Overdose?

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    Monistat Overdose?

    Thank you, that's good to hear. I couldn't find anything on it from my online searches. It's been such a saga with this girl. And she's the sweetest. Vet suspected a tumor earlier this Spring, before she fell ill, so I was prepared but still fighting for her. A week ago I was sure she was about...
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