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  1. isclark@bigpond.net.au

    Hen with paralysed leg, lethargy, not eating - can it be saved?

    Thank you both for your replies. The chook (Daisy) was so distressed this evening - and completely paralysed - that my hubby and I sent her to chicken heaven. Our first experience of self-managed euthanasia... we hope (but don't expect) it will be our last. Both of the other chooks seem...
  2. isclark@bigpond.net.au

    Hen with paralysed leg, lethargy, not eating - can it be saved?

    In the past 4 days or so I have wormed her and my other chooks and dusted the area for mites and the sick chicken herself. The sick chicken was moving her head a lot as if being bothered by something, so I presumed mites, although I only recently pressure cleaned the coop and have seen no sign...
  3. isclark@bigpond.net.au

    Hen with paralysed leg, lethargy, not eating - can it be saved?

    I have an ISA Brown hen around 18 months old who about 1 week ago began to stay in the coop, seemed lethargic, ate little, greenish diahrroea. My vet says he can't help much with chickens and it's a way to the only one he could refer me to... and to be honest I don't want to spend a lot. But...
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