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    Hen can’t hold head up

    I’m pretty stumped on my 4 yr old Hen and need some help! she was fine one day and then we came home and she couldn’t hold her head up. It also seems to curl under herself. It wouldnt be a pecking injury from another chicken either. We took her to the vet and they are unsure what’s going on...
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    Hen ate a candy bar! Need help!

    My 3 year old buff orphington hen jumped up when I was sitting down and pecked off a decent sized piece of my 3 musketeers chocolate bar off and ate it. The part looked like it was mainly the inside of the bar and not the outer chocolate shell. My local vet is closed until Monday and I am...
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    Buff Orpington neck jerking?

    Every few days we’ve been adding vitamin supplements to their water due to weather and lack of sunlight. It’s possible it could be a vitamin deficiency issue but in the past I’ve never seen symptoms like this for that. More of a slow bobbing for girls I’ve seen with deficiencies. This seems...
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    Buff Orpington neck jerking?

    I have a 2/3 yr old Buff Orpington that just started neck jerking. She ate normally today. Sunbathed in the run. Laid an egg yesterday. Normal poop tonight. Squishy very large crop (gurgling) Was checking the ring coop cam and noticed she was jerking her head on the perch to the point where...
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    Very thin hen

    I have a few questions for one of my thin hens. The flock had what we think was tapeworms and we wormed them yesterday with praziquantel. The problem is one of my hens who was 5.1/5.2 pounds 12-14 days ago is now at 4.6/4.7 today. She also decided to go broody a few days ago and we’re trying...
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    Elanco/Bayer praziquantel dosing help

    Hi there! Our flock recently got tapeworms and our vet recommended Droncit as the best wormer for this but also said bayer/Elanco deworm for cats would work the same but is slightly cheaper. We currently have the Elanco/bayer cat tapeworm dewormer. It’s 23 mg of praziquantel Our vet...
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    Avian Flu precautions for free ranging?

    We are currently rebuilding our coop and run. There hadn’t been any new cases in near by states in over a month and our state had no cases yet. We started a rebuild and the flock is free ranging in the mean time. Completely uncovered. We just got our first cases over the weekend about 80-110...
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    Need help asap worming

    Also Also forgot to ask should I skip the 2nd dose of Valbazen? I did the first dose Thursday and then was suppose to do a Second dose in 10 days.
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    Need help asap worming

    Thank you! Unfortunately I’m unsure who has it exactly forsure I know 4/5 but I’m suspecting a couple others who are very thin. Looking for a feed store that has it in stock. The local ones are sold out until next shipment
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    Type of worms? Need help figuring it out

    We have about 30 and just used Valbazen yesterday. Does that not work for tapeworms? I saw another post with that paste and someone said half her flock had seizures an hour after using the paste. I feel stumped on what to do now
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    Type of worms? Need help figuring it out

    We’ve never had this type before in the flock. We used Valbazen yesterday for treatment. Do you know if that will work?
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    Type of worms? Need help figuring it out

    Need help figuring out what type of worm this is. Can’t get into a vet for a fecal test so hopefully someone on here can help! Thanks!
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    Need help asap worming

    Thank you. Unfortunately I already used Valbazen on them yesterday. Should I wait so many days before using the equine paste?
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    Need help asap worming

    Thank you I really appreciate it! Hopefully they can help as well!
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    Need help asap worming

    Yes I do I’ll post it here. Will Valbazen not work for tapeworms? I’d like to treat them as soon as possible but not sure what to use or where to get it unfortunately
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