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    Please help sick rooster

    There is an Avian vet about 40 miles from here but unable to go at this time. I will post pictures tomorrow.
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    Please help sick rooster

    Please help I have an older Rooster that is my love, such a good old boy. Symptoms are sneezing, hoarse, stinky diarrhea, white spots on comb and wattles, very lethargic, going down hill fast, has a black spot on back toe and limping. I really don't want to put him down. Any suggestions please...
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    Hen was off her eggs for a while- are they all dead now?

    I have had the exact same thing happen with one of my hens. My hen hatched all of hers. Just let her set they should be fine.
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    Retirement for an older roo

    No worries I interpreted what you said wrong. However I may have found a solution thanks to you. I have taken my Barred Rock 1 yr old that is a little calmer than all of my other roosters that my old Roo taught and put both of them with my large flock. My BR is ok with him hanging out with a few...
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    Retirement for an older roo

    Thank you but I will never butcher or sell him. However I may put him in with my young guns once he is feeling better.
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    Retirement for an older roo

    When my daughter is available I will have her take the pictures my camera is horrible. To describe on one foot he has one toe that is actually two tows grown together it has two nails. His nails are very short and do not grow. He is not overweight he is just very large. When I rescued him I was...
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    Retirement for an older roo

    Hello all have an issue I need help with. About a year ago I rescued a very large mixed breed older Rooster with deformed feet from the local animal shelter. He is such a great rooster; very good to his ladies, alert and watch full, easy going with most of my bantam roosters, not aggressive with...
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    Hatching eggs under a heat lamp

    Thank you @PeepersMama I just hope I get a couple more.
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    Hatching eggs under a heat lamp

    Question for all of my well experienced BYC friends. I have a hen that just hatched her first clutch of eggs. She began with about 25 eggs, I know way to many and some were deposited after she began sitting. OK so today I moved her and the 4 hatchlings thus far to the maternity ward. I brought...
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    Hawk not afraid

    My run and coop are under construction adding on to existing hen house and half is covered but the older side is uncovered but my large rooster hangs on the uncovered side. He was given up by previous owner for beating up on turkeys, he is big, very big so I relatively feel safe in that regards...
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    Hawk not afraid

    I have had a problem with hawks since I began my chicken flock. I even lost almost a whole clutch of birds to them. My birds have a very large run but in the afternoon noon I let them free range on my farm. I had assumed my hawk problems were over as I hadn't lost one in quite a long time...
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    HELP PLEASE

    Each day shows slight improvement. Today is better than yesterday, eating wonderfully, taking treats, hung out in the back den with me today, still very unsteady but is able to stand for longer and better today. Almost like someone with an inner ear infection. Oh no problem, about asking...
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    HELP PLEASE

    She is still hanging in there. I did the scrambled egg and yogurt and she loved it. She has more life today and is eating the medicated chick food. She just has no balance. I took her out of the kennel and let her try to walk around but she just kept returning to the kennel. Poo still appears...
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    HELP PLEASE

    Took her to vet. Gave a stool sample. They gave her antibiotics. He said without running a battery of expensive test it is rare to come up with a sure fire diagnosis as most illness and diseases in fowl show many of the same symptoms. He told me to keep her quarantined feed her medicated food...
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    HELP PLEASE

    Yes like looking at the ceiling.
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