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    Are my chickens dying from "Gleet"?

    We’re located in Poulsbo Washington. No offense, and I realize this seems somewhat callused, but these are laying hens. Over the course of one likeftime, this hen
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    Are my chickens dying from "Gleet"?

    We’re located in Poulsbo Washington.
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    Are my chickens dying from "Gleet"?

    Thank you - you sound very knowledgeable. As for the fondling - I was being somewhat sarcastic. What I meant was, they’re not pets. I don’t pick them up on a regular basis, so I don’t have a good baseline for what they normally feel like. But, as I said in my original post, since she got sick, I...
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    Are my chickens dying from "Gleet"?

    Well, if she’s still alive in the morning, I’ll take pictures. Yes, it smells faintly of yeast. I have no idea when she last laid an egg - we have four that lay the same color egg and not all of them lay every day. No way to know whose egg is who’s. She feels like a chicken. As we don’t go...
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    Are my chickens dying from "Gleet"?

    Really? Monistat? FEED it to them? Well, okay - supposing that is really a thing, how do you propose I do that? The chicken I’ve suffering from this won’t eat or drink anything. She may well be dead by morning. And we only discovered the problem 2 days ago! Does this not seem weird for gleet?
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    Are my chickens dying from "Gleet"?

    Yellow-ish white stuff is oozing from the chicken's vent. We have a mixed flock of laying hens, four of which are Americanas. One of those Americanas had this stuff oozing from her vent - we looked it up, deduced it must be gleet, which we understand to be a yeast infection, but didn't catch it...
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    Ovulation is a beautiful thing!

    For chickens, that is... My mom and I share a small flock of (currently 12) laying hens on her property in Poulsbo, Washington. We've been raising chickens for several years. Our girls have a small hen-house at the back of mom's old barn, with about 900 square feet of fenced-in hen yard...
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