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Thanks so much for your reply! I went out there this morning armed with a towel and baking soda, all worried about hurting her and bleeding and everything, and when I cut it, nothing happened! LOL. I guess she had already done all her bleeding before. Now hopefully she'll be able to walk on that...

Could be a respiratory infection.

Hi, one of my hens has a broken toenail. It's still attached but looks like it could possibly come off, especially if she keeps pecking at it. I see some red where it looks like it bled before but stopped, and it's cut completely around, but doesn't seem too loose. At least half of her toenail...

So, I'll know they have MG if down the road they get the symptoms again and again when they get stressed or the weather changes? I think I heard that they'll do this if they are carriers. Another thing I should mention is that one of my hens (the one that had it the worst) is also at least part...

Thanks speckledhen - I was hoping you'd answer because you were the one I read and found out about Oxine! I also read your article on fungal infections, and that's what gave me hope that it was a fungal thing. I'll keep an eye out for more yellow poo - only noticed one this morning and none...

Thanks so much for your replies! So I hope I'm not giving them too much Oxine then - I read to mist them with 6.5 ounces per gallon every other day for a week. I think I got this from Shagbark Bantams or something. I don't want to overdue anything. In addition to misting the two sneezy ones...

I'm trying to figure out if a couple of my hens have a fungal infection, or CRD. Seems like it all started with a couple different hens having watery/foamy eyes, one hen who cleared up in one day and another around a few days to a week. I did hear gurgling from another hen, but that didn't last...

Thanks janinepeters! So far the symptoms aren't terrible, so I would call it mild. The VetRx seems to help a bit. I just don't want to keep perpetuating it by bringing in new birds in the future if my present birds remain contageous past their symptoms. Hopefully I'm over-reacting and it's...

I'd heard that it isn't good to feed them stuff with soy as the main source of protein - I think that's what Purina uses? Something about the soy causes a hormone imbalance. I switched mine to Cleveland Feed (still need to research Cleveland to see whether they use soy or not) for now, and...

I am very worried that my flock has some type of respiratory infection. I've been reading up on posts here and the outcome looks grim, about them being carriers for life once they have it. I don't know for sure what they have, but all the symptoms add up - a couple with bubbles in their eyes or...

Hi, I wormed my flock with Wazine 17 two weeks ago, and now I'm going to re-worm them. I know Wazine 17 only gets roundworms, but I'm pretty sure that's what I saw in someone's poo before I started treatment. Can I just re-worm with Wazine 17? Will that be sufficient to control the entire...

Thanks, I'll worm them first thing in the morning. I guess I'll feed them back their eggs the first couple of weeks, and then feed their eggs to the dogs during the 2nd round. I'd read somewhere that feeding the eggs back to the chickens will just keep the wormer residue in them, so that you can...

Hi, I wormed my chickens last year with Wazine 17, and now they have worms again. I adopted a stray hen not too long ago, and I suspect she brought more worms to the others, since I found her ranging about in the wild. I recently treated my chickens with a Seven dust for mites. The mites are...

Thanks, I did see some posts from folks who said they worked. The site I found the capsules on is http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=189

Hi, I have a hen that is crop bound and/or has a sour crop. Can't find a decent vet and it's way too expensive to take her for surgery. Do the crop bound capsules work at all? Has anyone tried them with success? Thanks