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    Scared hen losing tail feathers

    Update: Tonight she is not roosting with the other girls and is instead standing/sitting inside one of the nesting boxes. It could have been a predator, but it looks as if a lot of the down feathers near her vent have fallen off as well. Looking at her now it seems almost as if she doesn't have...
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    Scared hen losing tail feathers

    Hi all! My 9 month old speckled Sussex hen just seemed to have lost her large tail feathers overnight and now seems to be shocked. Her vent area has a few plain feather shafts but no blood and she is not losing any feathers anywhere else. I'll check for mites tonight, but our other hens seem to...
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    Confused and Concerned

    After doing some research and cleaning we realized that she does have Vent Gleet. We'll treat her for it immediately. We also realized that the breeder we bought from misidentified Belle and that she really is a Blue Copper Maran. Thank you all so much! I never realized how much help BYC could...
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    Confused and Concerned

    As for diet we give them standard layer feed, interspersed with mealworms, scratch, and occasionally grapes or cucumbers or other kitchen scratch (although with it being winter its gone down in frequency). We sent a fecal sample to the vet and it came back negative for standard worms like...
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    Confused and Concerned

    Hello! New chicken owner here. Our olive egger Belle is 9 months, and yet has never laid an egg. Her feathers look a bit rough and her comb is a sort of grayish pink. She has greenish yellow diarrhea that sticks horribly to her vent, we've had to trim those feathers to make sure they don't paste...
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    Easter Egger is Sick!

    After getting a fecal sample the vet found that our chickens don't have worms. I'm a little concerned now because if they don't have worms then I'm not sure what it is they have and am afraid they may be suffering from some sort of virus or other disease.
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    Easter Egger is Sick!

    I'll send pictures as soon as I'm home. Last night we kept her inside for an hour or two and she started eating a lot before finally going back to roost. The eye itself looks fine underneath the swollen lid, the only thing is that there is a little bit of clear liquid. As for the worms, another...
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    Easter Egger is Sick!

    Hi all! A few days ago we found our easter egger, Clucker, in the coop with a massively swollen eye. When we first found her this way she was otherwise fine, she ate and walked around like normal. We've been giving her antibiotics for her eye, as we were thinking it was probably due to another...
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