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    Chicken's head turned yellow and died the next day

    Update : Well I have lost 4 of my 5 hens. The last one seems to be fine and feeding and roosting normally. I believe this was heat related. I don't think it was coincidence that when this began was right when our weather turned to triple digits. They, I believe, got heat stressed which made them...
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    Chicken's head turned yellow and died the next day

    I don't think 5 hens at the same time would experience primary liver failure from a deficiency. Something has to be causing it. Some type of toxin. I think they are not roosting because they are too weak to get up to the beam they roost on. Tonight, they could not even make it up the ramp to the...
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    Chicken's head turned yellow and died the next day

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    Chicken's head turned yellow and died the next day

    Hens are about 5 years old. I Lost another one today. They have all stopped drinking water or eating. Now they are so weak they cannot get up in their roost. I fear the 3 I still have will not last another day. I have been trying to give them some Kale, which they ate a very small amount today...
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    Chicken's head turned yellow and died the next day

    I have 5 hens. One of the hens (bardrock) head turned real yellow and was acting funny. She would not roost for 2 nights. She stopped eating and then I found her dead this morning. The other 4 hens are also acting funny. They are all piled on one another tonight in one of the egg boxes. They...
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    Comb blocking eye site

    I have a healthy leg horn for a few years now. She has always had a floppy comb. But all of a sudden, her comb turned pale and now completely blocks her eye site on one side. Her disposition has changed and has become much more skittish and now tilts her head to the side. Is there a remedy to...
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