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    Hen walking sideways with tail laid to one side?

    I have a 2 year old red sex-link hen that is showing some odd behavior. I noticed when we got her last fall her tail laid over to the side, even when she is standing straight. Shortly after I also noticed she would do a side-step to get to things. This has continued to worsen. She still is...
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    laying hen broke leg, do we wait to see if it heals?

    Yesterday morning, one of my hens flew down and hit the nesting boxes, she now has a break in her upper leg/lower leg. She cannot put much weight on it. She will use her wing to balance herself when she walks. I don't want to let her lay there and suffer. Do we go ahead and cull for the meat...
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    Hens going to nest boxes but not laying????

    up to 5 eggs a day now. hope they keep going up everyday. Thanks all
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    Hens going to nest boxes but not laying????

    They came in waves to me, I have 3 hens that are black jersey and 18 that are black-sex link. We got the sex-links from my husbands grandfather and the jerseys' from a friend. They just recently quit fooling with the hens and so we took on the last 8 they had. We only got 3 originally because...
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    Hens going to nest boxes but not laying????

    I have not had good egg production for weeks now. I have20 hens and get 1 to 3 eggs a day on most days. Sometimes the girls feel generous and give me 5, but that is rare. I keep seeing 3 or 4 hens, in particular, getting in the boxes but then when I go back in an hour or so they are...
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    I finally know now!!

    About a month and a half ago I had a black giant get ill. Off balance on her feet, slowed feed and tons of water type diarrhea. I thought everything in the book since I am fairly new to chickens. They are all over a year old and I have 19 laying hens: 3 jersey and 16 black sex-link and 1 roo...
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    Went out a while ago to check on my Jersey. I have given sulmet the last 3 days 2 tb per gallon and will drop to 1 tb per gallon tomorrow. She has not eaten that I have seen. However, I made veggie soup for supper tonight and took her some. She gobbled the whole bit of it up! I was so...
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    Well, the sneezing hen is probably worse today. She is still eating and drinking fine, but the sneeze is almost a cough now. Maybe i should isolate her again. I think it is when she is moving, when she is at rest with the other birds she does not do it. Like you said, I would hope after the...
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    Odd scat near coop...

    if it was small, rabbits, if it was bigger than pea size probably deer.
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    Daniel, so sorry you have not felt well, I have been dealing with sick kids of my own or would have been back on here. I caught Beauty the Black Jersey and she is still in confinement. I went with the natural wormer d. earth. The lady at TSC croaked when I told her what i was gonna use the...
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    Thanks Daniel for the wormer schedule, that would have been my next question. I think I will go with the drops to put on the hens and roo. I am going to get them this afternoon. I am gonna try to catch Beauty and isolate her to make sure she is eating. I feel much better after your posts, I...
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    Thank you for the post...i am willing to try anything. I have put a picture of her as my profile pic so you can see her. She "looks" fine but she keeps to herself and is a quieter hen. She is so beautiful. but is not doing the face plant all the time yet....she may get to that point by...
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    She may have weight loss, I cannot catch her, she watches me, I know she is keeping an eye when I come near her. She looks fatter than all my other hens. I have not wormed or vaccinated any of them. I am assuming they were not before we got them either. At our local co-op is where I got the...
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    Water poop, sitting with ruffled feathers and head down?

    I am new to having chickens. Have only had them since May, started with four Black Jersey Giants and one leghorn roo and have added 19 black sex-links all from my husbands grandfather. They all seemed in perfect health but we had a tremendous heat wave come through Tennessee in late June and...
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