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    favorite hen is sick--help please!

    I know how you feel. So sorry. It's like a pure delight in your life is gone.
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    PLEASE HELP hen deteriorating fast lethargic

    Feel her for lumps under her skin. I just had the same thing and my sweet girl was full of grape-sized tumors. The vet found them. I put her down. I hope you have better luck.
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    Injured and depressed chickens

    Is there a way to give them an epsom salt/betadine bath? Do you have a bin you can fill the bottom w water & betadine/epsom salt & let them stand in it? Never had an injury like that but mine really like epsom salt & I soaked their legs in betadine & epsom salt when they had leg mites. Did a...
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    HELP....Only my second hatching and need advice please

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching I think this is good advice. I think the chick needs time and humidity. I don't think I'd run it under water. Get a spray bottle w clean water. Mist. Lay wet paper towels or hand towels in the incubator.
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    Marek's got my darling bantie

    Thanks Wyorp - mine lives in a rabbit cage w a roost and nest box. Free ranges in a deck planter and lives in a condo lol.
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    Just hatched baby Serama chick having motor difficulties- can it be helped?

    I saw the "walking backwards" post and remembered the story of an old turkey who did that. A farmer cured him w sauerkraut. Can you get some Bubbies juice into the chick? At least try ACV.
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    How to treat sour crop

    Hi Eggcessive, He said the tumors could be caused by a number of issues but given my experience with the other hen who died w classic Marek's I'm confident it was. How long does it take for Marek's to cause tumors? If this is an example then from time of exposure it took between 2-3 years. She...
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    HELP....Only my second hatching and need advice please

    Chicks that old don't peck each other in my experience. Humidity will help get the shell off.
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    HELP....Only my second hatching and need advice please

    Is it attached to the shell - for instance - is the shell stuck to its back? If so take a bit of water and try to work it off GENTLY w a Q-tip. If it's really stuck try coconut oil. If it is stuck to his face then you can't use water w/o risking aspiration. I can't see your photo but I'll look...
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    Marek's got my darling bantie

    Thanks Wyorp. I was more looking for advice on whether this remaining hen would have a quality of life alone, but in the house w us. The vet diagnosed the tumors which kept her from digesting food so the tumors killed her and the sour crop was a side effect. I have no idea how old my...
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    What should I do for scaly leg

    What was best & safest for us was to fill a plastic bin w warm water and if you have eposom salt add it. The water level should be high enough to cover the whole leg and reach the bottom of the chicken. Put affected birds in it (avoid overcrowding) and cover w a screen. They'll protest at first...
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    Marek's got my darling bantie

    Thanks Wyorp - I won't have the necropsy but assuming it's Marek's - especially based on the death of Moonie who had the classic "one leg forward and one back" paralysis, would you put the remaining hen down or let her live as a solitary house chicken? I'm pretty convinced it's Marek's.
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    How to treat sour crop

    My bantie hen w sour crop just died - not from sour crop but from tumors causing the sour crop. My vet knew w/in a few minutes after feeling grape-sized tumors on her bottom. He said sour crop doesn't make them as sick as she was, lethargic & weak. She was starving & I didn't know bc up until...
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    Marek's got my darling bantie

    Pretty sure she's a carrier...so I don't want to expose another chicken, which is very lonely for her.
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    HELP....Only my second hatching and need advice please

    The eggs may have been laid a few days apart. Hang in there, may be a while....
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