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    3-year old chicken found free ranging with prolaspsed vent.

    We went to our books and they only say to put on some hydrocortisone cream and don't tell us much of anything else. What should we do? I put on sanitary gloves and attempted to gently squeeze all the stool out of it and try to push it back in, but nothing worked. I know you guys here will help...
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    This turkey died today.
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    So my kiddos let me know its stool is basically diarrhea. Not sure what that means. I have removed the other 3 larger turkeys from her brooder because they were stepping on her and pooping on her. She just lays there trembling like she is cold, no longer eating or drinking or even standing. I...
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    I will find out as soon as I can.
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    Wanted to add that these are our first turkeys ever, but we have 40+ chickens, 8 ducks, and 2 geese, so we have some bird experience with raising them and first aid. We've read in the turkey books that many turkey chicks will die and sometimes you will lose half or more and not really ever...
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    Not sure why this posted twice. I will try to delete the other one.
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    When we brought them home, all 4 were the same size. Over time 3 grew bigger and one remained smaller. We assumed the big ones were males and the little one a female. Now it has become obvious that it is sick and dying, but we don't know what from or what to do to help it. We don't know if it is...
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    1-year old egg layer has water belly. Lost 3-year old just 2 weeks ago to water belly. Can this be connected/spread through the flock?

    OK, back again needing more help. We discovered one of our youngest egg-laying hens now has water belly. I wanted to find out if this might any way be connected so we can fix things before more and more start dropping. We have 3 generations of hens. The last one with water belly was 3 years old...
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    OK, back again needing more help. We discovered one of our youngest egg-laying hens now has water belly. I wanted to find out if this might any way be connected so we can fix things before more and more start dropping. We have 3 generations of hens. The last one with water belly was 3 years old...
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    We followed the advice from the video on draining the water belly. We got it all out yesterday and she was trying to eat and drink and walk slowly for a day. I took her outside to be in the sun and fresh air, and to be around her "sisters." She saw a bunch of hens taking dirt baths and she...
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    @Wyorp Rock I was told you are the expert. I wonder what you think we should do.
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    It feels like a water balloon. Soft and squishy, but full. Nothing hard. Nothing that feels like an egg. I can find her bones under there, and everything south of the bones feels exactly the same all the way back and around her vent. I believe it is water belly and we'll be draining the fluid as...
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    Watching this video now. Thanks.
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    Which expert are we waiting for? I found the thread about getting the needle to drain it. My wife is picking that up at Tractor Supply here in a bit. I guess soaking in warm water is probably doing nothing for her, so I'm going to remove her and dry her off.
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    I'm reading all the threads on this forum from others who dealt with water belly to see what the fix is, if any. I see people posting about draining it. This chicken is 3 and still lays eggs, though I don't know when the last time is she laid one. We're going to separate her from the flock and...
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