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    Dog Attack

    My boyfriend went in to feed them, it's a little grassed area down the side of my house, sturdy fence on the other side. He opened the gate and the **** dog rushed in beside him, he hadn't known he'd been followed by the bloody thing. I went to put her in the coop, but she hobbled out again...
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    Dog Attack

    I've just had a staffy burst into my chicken's run and grab Jude, the head of the flock, by the tail, foot, and wing. She's got a limp, and there's some blood, and one of her wings are painful to open. So far, she's sat herself down under a little bush and stared aimlessly, I just want to know...
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    Chicken won't eat

    Octavia, little black frizzled bantam, hasn't left the coop all day today. I checked her this morning for the usual egg they lay around that time and she seemed extremely hot under the wings. I went to check on her again a couple of minutes ago and she had moved spots but not left to scratch...
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    Hen on deathbed

    Now I'm wondering if she just has botulism. The temperatures soared pretty high and we had a plague of flies. Maybe she's sick because she ate some flies that had been visiting a decaying carcass?
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    Hen on deathbed

    Hey, sweetpea! I don't know much in the way of chickens, and am having a problem myself, but you said there's pain in their abdominal region? Are they layers? Perhaps they are egg bound. Does the soft part of their underside near the vent seem hard, or have a hard object in it? Also, what is...
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    Hen on deathbed

    Thank you!
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    Hen on deathbed

    Thank you. I was hoping she would be a little better this morning, but to no avail. Her head insists on straining forward. I've placed her in one of my old hoodies and bundled the hem around her neck to keep her head from dropping down. According to the people who owned them last, they're all a...
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    Hen on deathbed

    Update; her head isn't going back anymore, it's going forward. She still can't stand. Her stool, I'm not sure how to describe it, it got caught in the feathers around her vent despite the clipping I did yesterday. The stool is sticky, not loose at all. Yellowish, dark green. With a chunky kind...
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    Grey frizzled bantam dying

    Please help me! I've just been informed by my step-father that if she isn't better by the weekend, he's going to "put her down"! If she passes, she passes, but if I can fix it, I will! I need to know if she'll pull through, or how to get her better again! Please please please help me!
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    Grey frizzled bantam dying

    Okay, my sweet Annabelle isn't alright, and the worst part is that I don't know what's wrong with her! I've checked her vent, it doesn't seem to be clogged, but she hasn't pooped yet. Her feet react slowly when I put my finger under them to get her to grip like she would on her roost. I've been...
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    Hen on deathbed

    I've given her an all over check (trying not to stress her out too much). Her vent is clean, I can't make out any stuck eggs (I'm very inexperienced, this is my first time looking after chickens full time), she has little yellow/orange lice but it's not an infestation and I have a lice spray...
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    Hen on deathbed

    She's been fed table scraps (vegetables and fruit), grain, and whatever bugs she finds while digging about. All of our small flock has had the same as she's eaten but none are displaying the same signs of distress. They all look healthy. I put KILVERM, a poultry wormer, in their water, because...
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    Hen on deathbed

    She feels a little cool, but she's a very slight framed bird, not much meat, more feathers than anything. Maybe I should try her on some sugar water and yogurt?
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    Hen on deathbed

    My frizzled bantam hasn't been doing so well and it's scaring me to death. I went to let her other three friends out when I found her on her back, foot in the air. She's beside me now in a box, but when I sat with her in my lap for ten minutes, crying, she would spaz, stretching her wings, or...
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