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    Faverolles Thread!

    Hi everyone! We’re planning on adding three pullets to our flock that’s down to two. Any experience with this? I read you should very slowly introduce them but faverolles are so gentle I just wondered if it could be a little faster…
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    I’m so happy to report that The Favorite is still alive and doing great. We have drained her twice with a 60cc syringe from TSC and can get quite a lot of fluid (it’ll continue to drip after you take the needle out) but she seems happy as ever. Hope this update gives someone hope if they’re...
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    Hens not pooping while inside?

    Hi everyone, We have a curious bear cub so while we’re getting the electric fence up our 4 faverolles are sleeping inside in a large dog crate with shavings. They have another two nights to go (maybe three). I woke up early to put them outside and none of them had pooped in the crate. They...
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    I can’t believe it’s been a month! A quick update - The Favorite One is still alive, in fact she seems great and has started laying again! I haven’t drained her since the vet did although I bought the syringes and have them ready. If you didn’t know her history you wouldn’t know she was sick...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Guess When BYC Will Hit 25 Million Messages!

    5/14/22 at 3:06pm
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    A quick update for anyone currently or in the future following this thread. We got the radiologists report back who suspects reproductive cancer over heart failure. The exact phrase is: "The top differential for this degree of coelomic effusion is ovarian neoplasia (most often ovarian...
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    Faverolles Thread!

    Question - how much does everyone's hens weigh? Ours are around 4.5 pounds and I can't get them above that, although everything I read online says they should weigh around 6ish pounds. Maybe they're just on the smaller/leaner side? They have open access to food and they free range, so maybe they...
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    Faverolles Thread!

    OMG you made my (and their) day!
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    Faverolles Thread!

    I ended up submitting it! There needed to be more fav representation in there 😍
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    SOO helpful as always @Wyorp Rock and exactly what my partner and I were discussing last night. The way she's acting/being seems like she's not on death's door, and we'd love to give her time to chicken (a great way to put it). The vet told us and showed us how easy it is to drain at home so I...
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    Bad news but at least it’s news. The vet felt her abdomen was distended and took out a syringe of completely clear liquid. They drained 1.8 pounds of liquid from her after looking at X-rays. So much fluid her lungs were 1/10 of the size they should be at least and everything was pushed out of...
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    More confusing signs and symptoms...yesterday she was pooping green bile poops and her crop seemed better after a morning massage so I gave her access to her pellets and she ate those and drank some water. About 4 hours later she had a watery but brown poop and ate more pellets later. I thought...
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    Ha it's so true. I'm glad the dark cynical eye rolling humor came through :)
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    No...he did not! He essentially listened to her breathing and recommended euthanasia.
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    Open mouth breathing - flu? Video *update* - vet dx airsacculitis/pneumonia can we treat with antibiotics?

    Full crop again this morning. I’ll keep up with the oil and massaging. Here’s a picture of what she passed yesterday after her second massage (first image as it was, second image after I smudged it around)
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