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    Bantam Hen thinks she's a Rooster?

    Thanks again. I will keep an eye on her feathers - assuming you mean her tail feathers. She's definitely got some respiratory issue (which I think most of them will also infect their reproductive systems)...and she will lay an egg every 2 or 3 days - not every day. But then again, when I...
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    Bantam Hen thinks she's a Rooster?

    Thanks nuthatched. She the only hen I've ever had that crows/crowed. She doesn't have her own rooster, but there's a rooster right next to her (other side of the poultry netting). When you say a reproduction issue, does that potentially include an infection that can impact the reproductive tract?
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    Bantam Hen thinks she's a Rooster?

    Sometimes I think she's also trying to be a Turkey. Is there something wrong with her? She's laying eggs 2 or 3 a week and I think she's dealing with a low-grade wet pox infection...she's got some black spots on her comb too and they've been there for at least a year...although some of them...
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    Bantam hen still lonely?

    The more I think about it, I've realized that I can't compare my bantam rooster to my bantam hens. The hens have a much larger vocabulary - they have a sound that clearly expresses every emotion. But my rooster talks back to me! Every time I greet him (calling his name), he says - OOOOOooooh...
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    Hen with what I believe is a low grade CRD infection

    I started her on antibiotics on Sunday night - It's Tuesday night right now. It's hard to say if she's better or not, but she does have some hard yellow crust under her right nostril - it wasn't there before. It's not very much, and it looks dried out. I think I am going in the right direction...
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    Another Rooster with a broken beak.

    Thanks again WR. I imagine it depends on how deep the crack in the beak is - in terms of whether it will heal or fall off? I brought him tonight mainly to get him to eat - he's a light eater and in the past I've fattened him up some by bringing him in at night - to eat by a lamp. It worked...
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    Another Rooster with a broken beak.

    I am now hoping my little bantam rooster will be ok. He just broke his beak - I didn't see it happen - but it must have happened sometime between today and last night. The upper beak is cracked all the way around, but it's still attached. I don't know how it happened but it probably has...
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    Does Ivermectin work for poultry lice/louse?

    That's right - ChickNanny is right. Just as thorough a dusting as you can muster...get in worked in - under the wings, between their legs - and especially in the vent area...
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    Does Ivermectin work for poultry lice/louse?

    I chose not to use Ivermectin for the same reason. My hen had North Western Pacific Poultry lice (they were confined to the skin's surface and feathers) and I used poultry dust - it's permethrin in a powdered form. It worked after 3 applications - waiting about 5 to 7 days between each...
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    Hen with what I believe is a low grade CRD infection

    Thanks again dawg53! Last night my hen had a 'double click' every time she inhaled - So I got the antibiotics. I see that noise from her breathing as an indication of fluid in the airway... I put it in her water as of last night, and it's hard to say if she's better or not as of today - but...
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    Swollen foot, no bumble?

    Chickens ain't chicken and they're tough little buggers...
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    Hen with what I believe is a low grade CRD infection

    Yes, but does that mean you have to keep giving them antibiotics or does it beat back the BACTERIA so that they don't constantly have to take the antibiotics?
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    Swollen foot, no bumble?

    Let's see what WR has to say, but on both feet, the rear toes looks off - On the swollen foot, it looks like there might have been a wound at the base of the rear toe - just below the spur...could be the source of infection...? And is that dirt (or chicken poop) on the end of the rear toe with...
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    Hen with what I believe is a low grade CRD infection

    Yes - I am not sure if this new hen and her brother (I've had her brother for years now) have had MG - But I've suspected that they have and were carrying it...based on what I've noticed about their nostrils...and there was another rooster who they used to live with who I think had it also - no...
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    Hen with what I believe is a low grade CRD infection

    Thanks dawg53 - I will give that a try. I looked very closely at her nostrils and whatever is blocking them is definitely not dirt. It's just inside the opening of the nostrils - not sticking out. And it looks very much like the hardened material seen on birds with MG. I was thinking that...
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