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    Urgent help please. Poorly chicken, won't eat, won't drink, watery eye

    hello bluepits, ouch, doesn't sound fun. Haven't come across the symptoms you are describing. However, I would definitely advice to separate the poorly hens from the healthy ones immediately. If you need tips on high energy feed etc if your hens are not eating well and losing weight let me...
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    Urgent help please. Poorly chicken, won't eat, won't drink, watery eye

    She's taken a notable turn for the worse today, hardly opening her eyes, I've not seen her eat or drink anything. It's definitely something respiratory - her eyes are puffy and gooey, her breathing not right. I've just forced some mixed yoghurt and garlic water into her via a syringe in her...
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    Urgent help please. Poorly chicken, won't eat, won't drink, watery eye

    Thank you for your help and the link faykokoWV. You are right, it does sound like this could be the cause. We've now given her another good rub down with diatoms as we have noticed more little ritters than the first time round (even around her eyes - yuk!) and then had her walk around the...
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    Urgent help please. Poorly chicken, won't eat, won't drink, watery eye

    Hello, we're hoping to get some urgent advice for our poorly hen. We're fairly new to chicken keeping and this is our first sick bird. We're based in the UK, I am posting this on the US site as you seem to have many more members than the site we have been using before, so am hoping to get good...
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