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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    I have started with the antibiotics and the bumps have not gotten worse, but Dev is worse. Swallowing is hard that she is occasionally drooling. I have been giving her trimethoprim sulfa for 3 days now, the vet prescribed 14 days. Should I stop? Would I have seen signs of improvement by now...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    Hi everyone, I gave Dev the copper in her water for 4 days. I really saw no improvement. She perked up in the first two days but that was it. No change in her mouth bump. Her swallowing did not improve. Yesterday she went downhill fairly quickly. She could not even eat more than half of her...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    So I have been watching her and I am starting her on acidified copper sulfate today. 1/4 tsp copper with 2 tsp apple cider vinegar to one gallon water. I want to make sure that there is no 'growth' in her mouth that can be treated with it. Is there any reaction or danger to using this? If she...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    I have been researching squamous cell carcinoma. She does not have the massive bump with an ugly scab on it but could this be what it is?
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    Thank you for your input. I’m planning on a vet trip on Wednesday so I am looking for advise on what to have them look at/test for, if anyone has any input. I will add that it seems like she is starting a second molt. She already molted this year but she has slowly been losing feathers that...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    I see, thankfully it seems she still has some more time as she was eating the baby bird food this morning. But one thing I have been noticing is she is drinking water excessively. She’s stopped to get water four times in the last hour and is taking many drinks from it at each stop. It’s very...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    I don’t smell a foul odor. The smell was her baby bird food powder. And whenever she eats that she gets air in her crop so I have to massage it until the air comes out and she ‘burps’. When she burps it smells like the baby bird food but fermented a bit but it is sitting in her crop for a bit...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    Yes, these are old photos but show them well, I will try to get new ones but may have to wait until tomorrow morning to use the sunlight. The last two were from just now, she pooped as well. It’s hard to see but the area with the arrow in the second to last picture is protruding due to her...
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    And here are some poop pictures that are from the last few days.
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    8 year old hen having difficulty swallowing

    Hi there, I have an 8 year old hen who has been having some issues lately. Starting March of 2022, she developed ascites. A little later I noticed a tumor on the left side of her abdomen, it is hard to feel but I would say it is a smidge bigger than a golf ball. All is fine until Eddie, my 10...
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