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    Chicken being heavily picked on

    okay, i’ll look on getting/building something for her
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    Chicken being heavily picked on

    I have a chicken who recovered from a broken leg, it snapped right where it connects with her hip so there was no way to splint it, she was on anti inflammatory medication and kept in a dog cage for a month. The vet told me she’d always have a slight limp and wouldn’t walk normally again. I...
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    Hen making weird noise while drinking?

    Okay, thank you!
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    Hen making weird noise while drinking?

    She’s currently taking 1.3ml trimethoprim for her antibiotic, .4ml furosemide for the water belly, and .5ml meloxidyl for the inflammation every 12 hours
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    Hen making weird noise while drinking?

    Hey all! For context, I currently have a sick hen who I have been keeping separated, took her to the vet & he thinks it’s EYP and waterbelly, so she is on 3 different meds right now. She still does eat and drink, but when she drinks the water, she makes this weird noise that is very hard to...
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    How to Reintroduce a Recovered Hen/Stop Hens from Fighting?

    i let them duke it out, one drew a bit of blood from a wattle but it ended pretty quickly after that, took the loser and stopped the bleeding and put some wound spray on it, it’s a very small peck wound but was sure scary to watch! this was my first time having to reintroduce a hen back in, they...
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    How to Reintroduce a Recovered Hen/Stop Hens from Fighting?

    I have a chicken that I had separated for a month for a broken leg, I tried letting everybody free range together this morning and she seems to get along with everybody fine except for one hen. They were fighting and I ended up separating them. Should I have let them fight it out? I was scared...
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    they gave her an x-ray, ultrasound, and drained 115ml of yellow fluid from her. they said the ultrasound showed that most of her abdomen is filled with solid, and not liquid. they’re hoping the solid part is just enflamed tissue from egg yolk peritonitis, so she’s on a diaretic, anti...
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    got her into the vet tomorrow night! hopefully they can help me figure this all out, feeling her belly i don’t think it is water belly, her abdomen is very firm, not squishy
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    i have an appointment tomorrow for another one of my chickens, the only problem with the vet is that they usually take a week or two to get them in, so i’m just afraid they wouldn’t be able to get her in in time
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    i don’t know when she last laid an egg, out of my 6 girls, we usually get around 4 eggs a day, there have been no eggshell problems though, never seen a soft shelled egg in my flock. i’m running a bath for her now!
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    it feels more bloated than fluid
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    i do have aqua mox on hand!
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    Sick Chicken, is this water belly?

    help please! my 3 year old hen is looking very distressed, her abdomen is firm and swollen and she’s waddling with her legs pretty far apart, her comb is turning purple and is very floppy. she’s still eating and drinking but is not very interested in free ranging and mainly stands her with her...
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    Chicken pulling out feathers and cracking noise

    How would I be able to tell? I couldn’t feel any heat or swelling. Attached a video below of what her hip sounds like
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