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    Worried! Lash egg in nesting box but everyone seems fine?

    That looks like lash material to me. Which ever bird passed it may have a bloated and firm feeling abdomen.
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    Head injury

    I personally would try to clean that up by using warm, damp compresses, try to get it as clean as you can, flush it out with sterile saline or diluted betadine. Then apply some plain triple antibiotic ointment in and on the wound. Reapply several times a day as needed to keep it covered in...
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    Worried! Lash egg in nesting box but everyone seems fine?

    Sometimes a malformed egg or egg material is mistaken for lash material, they can look very similar sometimes. Usually a hen with salpingitis will not lay eggs anymore. Pictures of what you found that you thought was lash material would help.
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    Bumblefoot treatment went terribly wrong

    I agree with @Bsmac. If you don't start seeing improvement within a few days, or it's obviously getting worse, the next steps I would take would be to pack the wound with sugardine after cleaning and wrap (sugardine is plain white sugar mixed with a bit of betadine to make a paste), and/or...
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    Wry neck or broken neck?

    I do understand cost. But as said before, mixing yourself is far more complicated than you may realize, and very difficult to meet all their nutritional needs. If vitamin therapy improves your bird, then you will know that a deficiency is going on. That may be a result of insufficient...
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    Wry neck or broken neck?

    Where are you located, generally, in the world? Is a balanced chicken feed available? It's very hard to feed them a balanced diet by mixing your own grains, that provides all the micro nutrients they need.
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    Update to Sudden Death of My Flock

    It was ON my property. In my open chicken pasture. Thankfully it was mammalian, not avian, so very unlikely to affect my birds (though we were very concerned about possible rabies), and fortunately none of my other animals were able to get to it. It was in really bad shape and not able to...
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    Update to Sudden Death of My Flock

    If you go to the bottom of the page there is a "report bird mortalities" (it's in blue type) that you can click on to submit a form. I believe that form is still active. If you have test results that confirm bird flu, I would absolutely submit. If I found a large amount of wild birds dead...
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    X-Ray Egg What the heck

    Oh my, I'm so very sorry. :hugs I know there are no words that really help, but you did what you could, you couldn't have done more. At least she went peacefully and without suffering. I know you will miss her.
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    Wry neck or broken neck?

    Is there any possibility that she may have gotten a head injury? Silkies are more susceptible to head injury due to their vaulted skulls, and that could cause similar symptoms. I would do the vitamin therapy and see if it helps. Silkies are also more prone to wry neck from that as well.
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    Update to Sudden Death of My Flock

    Florida Fish and Wildlife has put out that bird flu has killed off many muscovy ducks in Florida, and says they are highly susceptible to it. https://myfwc.com/research/wildlife/health/avian/influenza/ I would send a report of the findings to the local Fish and Wildlife people. There is a...
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    Wry neck or broken neck?

    If you are using a selenium supplement, then just give a tiny sliver. It only takes a tiny bit, and that one you do need to be careful not to give too much. The b complex is very safe, and they can swallow frogs, so a pill is not usually an issue. If needed you can cut it in half, or you can...
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    Update to Sudden Death of My Flock

    That is what I suspected it might be, based on description. That is not good news at all. Nasty, nasty virus. I'm so sorry.
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    X-Ray Egg What the heck

    Are you sure they were lash eggs? Or were they malformed eggs (sometimes they can look similar)? She's young for salpingitis (lash eggs) and malformed eggs are also often a glitch. When birds pass lash material, they usually cease laying, due to the infection/inflammation that causes the lash...
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    X-Ray Egg What the heck

    In mine it has been a one off usually, happens with a new layer and once their system figures it all out, it stops. How long has she been laying, and have they all been normal up to now? I've attached a few pictures of some of mine. The first was an egg in an egg, the other was a double...
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