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    Should I change plans regarding new pullets?

    I have 4 pullets coming 10 weeks that I’ve been growing out, using my 3 horse slant trailer with stall panels removed as their coop. We set up a makeshift run off the back using dog run panels. It’s been a nice set up, easy to clean and they have a ton of room inside when we aren’t around to...
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    Wobbly Hen-Injury or Mareks (or ?)

    We lost George yesterday. She had honestly maintained her strength, appetite and general bright attitude this whole time but started to not eat as much last week. She slowed down quite a bit, we gave her a chance to rally as she has in the past but this time it didn’t happen. Her sister Esther...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    I just wanted to reach out and thank you again. She seemed like she was doing better this morning and actually ate the chick feed, took her meds well, and was hanging out with the others. I last saw her around noon outside in the run scratching around. I found her around 3:45 lying with her...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Oh good to know. I’ll give everyone some mash first thing then and see how if she eats. Seriously, thank you so very much. Let’s see how this goes. 🤞
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    When I check her in the morning her crop feels flat to me. But she also isn’t eating much in the first place. I’m not feeling anything hard or squishy. Her breath doesn’t smell weird. But to be fair, my crop palpation skills are amateur at best. But I’ve been giving her olive oil mixed in with...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Thank you! Day 2 of deworming. If this is a high parasite load, when would I potentially see an improvement? She’s definitely lost weight. I don’t have a starting weight on her but she feels lighter and her breastbone is more prominent than I remember. She weighed 3.5 pounds when I got her on a...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Oh I also did treat her with permethrin powder even though I did not see signs of lice or mites on her. Just wanted to cover all bases.
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Thanks again for all of your help. I very much appreciate it. Still no egg, though she is out and about with the others and not sitting puffed up in a corner by herself. Her droppings are still mostly water with a bit of solid material. She did have one very small almost normal dropping this...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Well crap. I just realized the calcium I bought yesterday at cvs was carbonate and not citrate. All of the bottles said citrate and this one looked exactly like those but it had 600mg so I bought that. I’m running back right now to get the right stuff. I’ll switch her to citrate tomorrow...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Thank you! I did give her the calcium directly yesterday and today. She did eat some this morning and will check back in on them in a couple hours. She’s happy with the other birds so she will stay with them unless necessary. And my rooster was not happy when I locked him outside so I could...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Poop update. Not super enthusiastic about eating but will pick at her food. She’s more stressed about being separated from the others even though she’s in the walk-in coop and they hang outside the crate with her. ETA: I ended up letting her out of the crate to ease her stress. I don’t have...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    I’ve got her in a crate in the walk in coop, tums, with wet mash and some scrambled egg and then poultry cell/probiotics in her water. She didn’t eat when I fed everyone this morning or since she’s been in the crate. She felt a little bit swollen (soft swelling but not squishy nor significantly...
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Thanks so much
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Thank you. I have Tums in their med box. I’ll give her one of those in the morning and run to the store to get the calcium citrate. Can she have that in the afternoon if I give her a Tums in the AM?
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    Hen- watery poop x 1 week and not feeling 100%

    Thanks for everyone’s help. I did add probiotics to her water on Friday and she’s been drinking it. Eating seems normal from what I can see. Crop appears to be emptying normally. She hasn’t laid an egg since last Thursday and she’s been pretty regular every day or every other day since she...
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