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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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    Monistat Overdose?

    My 6 year old BO recently made a crazy comeback from a reproductive issue. While her energy is back, I noticed her appetite was not (except hunting bugs and eating high protein treats), and that in addition to green diarrhea and a slow-emptying water balloon crop, she started vomiting large...
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    Worried Abut Aging Hen - Laying Issues

    Thank you. She's still quite spritely and all. Just worried that the swelling is once again impeding her abilities to eat/poop/etc. Last time that happened she laid an egg and it all went away for a few weeks, but now she's back to swollen. I'm hoping I can coax an egg out of her!!
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    HELP Check My Math!: safeguard aquasol dosage for small flock

    Thank you!
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    Worried Abut Aging Hen - Laying Issues

    I'd posted some months ago about my 6 y/o BO, who didn't start laying again with the others this Spring (they're all the same age). Well, since then, her lower abdomen started to become larger and firmer, with some give--but it seemed a bit troubling. Her comb and wattles didn't quite develop...
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    Limiting Sunlight to Slow Egg Laying (and to prevent EYP)

    Hi, the light reduction plus extra calcium supplementation has continued to work WONDERS for her specific issue. She's still with us, so we've been doing this whole song and dance for four, going on five years now. I'm convinced she wouldn't have made it past 2 otherwise. She started laying...
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    Egg Laying Behavior in 6 y/o Hens - Should I be concerned?

    So, this is something that I'm feeling guilty about. My husband and I had to move from the country to the town this past summer, and unfortunately that meant a downsize. My original flock of 8 had an 8x16 run with plenty of space to run, a huge dustbath, different roosting bars, and other...
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    Egg Laying Behavior in 6 y/o Hens - Should I be concerned?

    Wow! That's crazy. She was a trooper for making it so far into a long, happy life despite the odds. That must have been quite uncomfortable. You remind me that so much can go wrong that we could never be able to see or be proactive about, no matter how meticulous we are about good chicken care...
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    Egg Laying Behavior in 6 y/o Hens - Should I be concerned?

    Thank you for the advice--I'll work on the diet. It had been an uncharacteristically brutal winter here, so I'd been a bit more heavy-handed with the scratch/BOSS in the evenings before bedtime. So I may need to start a boot camp of diet/exercise to help them work any accumulation off. I guess...
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    Suspected Internal Laying: Worth Antibiotics?

    Please keep us posted. I'm hoping for the best, too. These sorts of things can make one feel so helpless (and broke)! I wish there were more options available for diagnosis/treatment. In the past, I've had hens die from internal laying that were potential candidates for surgery (I have an avian...
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