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    Americana hen has stopped eating. Wasting away.

    I may start having her go on some dewormers. I have safeguard and corrid. I know corrid is more lenient when it comes to measuring, but can chickens overdose on safeguard? How much should I giver her?
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    Americana hen has stopped eating. Wasting away.

    I just hope it is not some sort of hardware disease. The fact her crop is constantly smoky and flat to the point I can’t feel it is scary. I hate to imagine the food and water just spilling into her.
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    Americana hen has stopped eating. Wasting away.

    Not from what I can really tell, I see that she has a hard time passing her poops. And with her she has not laid in years. Several times I have caught her mounting other hens like a rooster. But she has not laid in quite awhile. She may have every once in a long time, but may have mixed with the...
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    Americana hen has stopped eating. Wasting away.

    Hello, once again I have a sick hen who I am puzzled on what to do. She is at least 6 years old and was the top hen in my flock. Now she hardly eats anything and I can feel her keel bone stick out. I have now had to resort to hand feeding her mushed up later feed. She will timidly go for...
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    Chickens ate staples!

    No we don’t any sort of avian vet nearby, and in reality there is not much they can do. I’m just gonna pray they pass it through. It may also I hope to god be a false alarm. It is hard to believe they would be able to just gobble up a staple of that size so quickly. Of course they have their...
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    Chickens ate staples!

    I manually fed them castor oil to do the same thing, hopefully it pans out. Otherwise Tim going to have to keep monitoring them . Thanks for the suggestion
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    Chickens ate staples!

    I was hammer tacking some new chicken wire when one staple fell and a hen of mine had it in her mouth. I rushed to get it out but she instinctively ate and swallowed it. As I was focused on her another hen went around and did the same thing. My luck. The staples they swallowed were ARROW T50...
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    Hen with a swollen abdomen... Water belly or something else?

    Hi all, I have used BYC for awhile but this is my first post. I have a beautiful Rhode Island Red named comfy bird. She is around a year and a half old now. Recently I have noticed she has developed labored breathing and has a swollen abdomen. I have done research and there are a bunch of...
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