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    Sick roo... deteriorating FAST!!! Please help!

    "He could be very dehydrated and weak, or he could have other problems such as a respiratory disease, or could have eaten something toxic. Does he cough or sneeze, gasp, or have nasal or eye drainage? Is his comb bluish? Does he seem paralyzed in his legs, or does he mainly seem weak? I would...
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    Sick roo... deteriorating FAST!!! Please help!

    There is mucus in his throat... it is very sticky.
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    Sick roo... deteriorating FAST!!! Please help!

    Hello chicken friends! I hope someone can help me save my rooster! I do not know what's wrong with him, he was 100% fine yesterday, throughout the night, and this morning he started acting strange, napping, not eating nor drinking, and not able to take care of his girls, but he still ran away...
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    Shells visible in poop, soft shell eggs

    There are other brands that have higher ratios, those are all crumble (and even organic which is hard to find here!) but none of my hens like the crumble stuff. They come running when I come to feed them and then look at what I gave them and slowly walk away. I guess they're not hungry enough...
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    Shells visible in poop, soft shell eggs

    Ingredients as listed (no percentages given): broken maize, wheat, sorghum, calcareous marine shells, green grain rice, soybean oil. Other info: crude protein 8%, crude oils and fats 3.4%, crude fiber 2.09%, crude ash 7.14%, sodium 0.01%, methionine 0.16%, lysine 0.25%. The problem though is not...
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    Shells visible in poop, soft shell eggs

    I am not familiar with any of the 3 different breeds of hens that I have. Attached is a picture of the hen in question. They all get the same all natural feed, it's minimally processed and contains shells fragments. I also feed them their own ground up shell and also ground shell I can find for...
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    Shells visible in poop, soft shell eggs

    I have a question again! I have a hen that has laid normal ells. She started laying soft shelled eggs, then no-shelled eggs (that she ate), and then molting season started and all of my 3 hens stopped laying. After molting season, I assumed 2 hens started laying again until I found 3 eggs in the...
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    WHAT is that that came out of my hen??? *GRAPHIC PICTURES*!!

    Wow, thanks so much to all of you!!!! That helped a lot figuring out what that is! What I found was exactly what's described! Now what was not mentioned was if she'll lay again (she hasn't in 6 months already so I doubt she will) and even if she ever did, I don't know if I could eat her eggs...
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    Comment by 'chickychicka' in article 'New owner! New Flock!'

    That picture looks exactly what one of mine looked like before she got sick! Even her beak! I never had any idea of her breed (they call them here just "chicken for eggs" or "chicken for meat"). The one hen I got from a commercial breeder where I live, in Italy, told me that all his egg layers...
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    WHAT is that that came out of my hen??? *GRAPHIC PICTURES*!!

    One of my 4 hens is not well. I have not been able to find out what she has yet, I am assuming possibly tumors but I am not sure now. She eats a LOT, sleeps a LOT, and just lost her rank in the pecking order a month ago (mid May 2015), putting her at the bottom of the order. I have noticed in...
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    my girls were attacked...

    My attacked lady totally pulled through! I was amazed by how well she healed, and she surprised me and everyone who saw her after the attack - we all thought she'd die for sure. She healed up really well without stiches or other medical help, her feathers are all grown back, and her tail...
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    Tiny red bugs?

    Thank you! I am trying to avoid the use of pesticides unless I feel beaten and have tried natural methods too many times unsuccessfully. For now I hope I have luck, but seeing these tiny bugs makes me anxious to miss some that will reproduce. I wonder how they suddenly appeared in the first...
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    Tiny red bugs?

    How is DE used? I have foodgrade DE at home, do I sprinkle it on the chickens or spread it on the ground where they dust bathe? How much do I need to use? Do I need to wash the coop with water and bleach, or do I use DE in there, too? Thanks for any replies and/or tips! Are those red mites? I...
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    Hen not laying, lethargic, hunched back, but eats and drinks a lot!

    I hope someone can help me again, please! Back in December (we had 5 hens) one of our older ones (only 2 1/2yrs) had started laying soft-shelled eggs, then stopped laying all together, was also sleeping a lot, and finally got very sick in January (lethargic, not eating, ruffled feathers, lost...
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    my girls were attacked...

    Thank you for your reply and great tips. I've taken her inside and she's been in a big rabbit cage today. She's eating and drinking well and not too bored yet. I live in Italy and my farm-neighbors are laughing that I am trying to save her, so would probably the vets here. Chickens are not...
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