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    Sick gaping chicken?

    Hi I didn't try the crushed garlic as she seemed to recover...wish I'd seen that before we had our next gaping chicken, but I didn't. With #2 (Pincushion) we had a day of worry, trying to flush out her crop which seemed too large but that didn't help... I gave her homeopathic Silica, no help...
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    Sick gaping chicken?

    thanks for the info on reading pain... I think I would opt for putting her down rather than the syringe, agree, too much pain too little gain... but happily, today, after a day inside, she is walking around the yards with the other chickens, a little slower than the others, but interested in...
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    Sick gaping chicken?

    Thanks CMV, I guess you're right. We don't feel an egg in her abdomen, just the distension. AND we notice that a once or twice a week we find an egg residue without a shell in the henhouse, as if it seeps out of her when she perches. She still seems to have some energy for things when she's...
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    Sick gaping chicken?

    One of my 3 year old sex-linked hens has been puffed out the last several weeks, but seeming to eat move around, comes in and out with the rest of the chickens. Now she really is just standing still... opening and closing her mouth as if gasping but not really gasping or wheezing. Gaping like...
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    Amazing chicken recovery!

    Hi there -- we have 8 chickens (2 Buff O's, 1 barred rock, 1 dark cornish and 4 sex-linked) in town as well as 2 geese ... I enjoy these posts and have searched for information whenever I have a question. Recently one of our 3 year old Buffs developed a one-legged limp, then a two-legged...
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