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    16 Week Mille Fleur Bantam with Leg & Balance Problem - Any Thoughts ?

    I had a chicken with similar symptoms a while back and turns out she had lice. Check really good around her vent and wings just in case. The lice made my girl anemic and she couldn't stand. Best of Luck!
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    How to cure anemia in a chicken? HELP!

    O what I wish I knew before my poor girl! I have had her comfortable, warm and fed for three weeks and NOW I know what I should have done immediately: Wormer Sevin Dust Red Cell Poop Check High Protein Diet I am going to be gone for six days and I don't know what to do She has two more...
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    How to cure anemia in a chicken? HELP!

    Alright i will take her off corn he loves it:( best for her though. Thanks for checking about the spinach and i guess i better start looking for a poultry poop vet person! i have a frozen pumpkin in the other chickens' pen but the seeds are really big. Can she swallow them? They're as...
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    How to cure anemia in a chicken? HELP!

    Oh wow guys Thanks! She has been drinking but i can make a mash for her. I dont think we have liver on hand but i can give her some ground elk burger i will definitley try the vitamin B too! right now i am up for ANYTHING! Thanks a bunch (more ideas welcome )
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    How to cure anemia in a chicken? HELP!

    Hi My wyandotte hen has been in the 'hospital' for three weeks now and with not much improvement. She had lice and was treated with sevin dust ten days ago and today. Her combs are still pale, she has terrible balance and she's skinny. I have been feeding spinach (iron?), grass, corn and...
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    can rooster with possible meriks disease live......

    Hi My chicken had mareks this summer and my parents couldn't pay for a vet visit either. I kept her in a dog crate and fed her normal chicken feed as well as grass and some tomatoes. I would have liked to have kept nursing her but a long trip forced us to kill her (humanly). She was...
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    Anemic Chicken? Treated for lice, very pale combs, worms? please help

    Thanks for all the great advice! Another question: What is the best wormer? and whick one is the cheapest? I only have three chickens (city regulations) so I don't need a lot at all and money is a bit thin? Oh yeah how long will recovery be? Thanks
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    Anemic Chicken? Treated for lice, very pale combs, worms? please help

    Okay good point She is really skinny and small Do you think worms weakened her and them she got lice?
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    Anemic Chicken? Treated for lice, very pale combs, worms? please help

    I have never wormed my chickens just dusted for lice (i didn't know chickens could get worms until recently). I have been thinking about Piperazine or a different kind but lots of people say not to worm a weak chicken I even looked at her poo a bit before i discovered the lice and it was...
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    Anemic Chicken? Treated for lice, very pale combs, worms? please help

    I have dusted my 8 month wyandotte for lice two days ago but she has a pale comb and wattles. She is still very weak but she has been eating well. Any suggestions for feeding an anemic chicken? Or is she anemic at all? Thanks for helping PS her poo is very small and tube shaped like...
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    Weak chicken, very underweight, tired, lethargic

    YAY! I did a head to toe to vent search on the little bird and on her rear were tons of mites and lice! now i know for sure whats wrong! going to buy sevin dust and vitamins and hopefully she will be on the road to recovery. I can put her in the laundry room and feed her scrambled eggs...
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    Mareks? Young Hen, paralyzed, very tired, not eating, ruffled feathers

    Yeah that would probably help a bunch! Shes not crazy about yogurt but she loves scrambled eggs hopefully her appetite will go up too
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    Mareks? Young Hen, paralyzed, very tired, not eating, ruffled feathers

    Hey Everybody thanks for the advice I read a bit and someone suggested mites so i did a head to toes to vent check and viola! gross little lice and mites making my girl bleed Thank goodness it wasn't mareks and tomorrow is a trip to D and B! Now, it the road to recovery for Rue Thanks again
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    chicken dying, no appetite, sleeps all the time, HELP!

    Oh thank you thank you! i did a head to toe to vent search and the poor babe has bugs all over her bottom i am heading to D and B tomorrow and hopefully she will be on her way to wellness i looked up chicken mites and lice (gross) and it seems like she may have a couple different kinds...
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    chicken dying, no appetite, sleeps all the time, HELP!

    Hi My poor chicken has been isolated for about ten days and not much improvement if any She is such a sad sight super skinny, ruffled and missing feathers. i have searched for mites and maybe, maybe, there are tiny black specks. are those mites? she is really weak though and winter break...
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