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    Does she have mites??

    Treatment suggestions?
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    Does she have mites??

    Is it really that easy lol? I’ve read different articles with some saying just petroleum jelly and others saying you have to soak their feet everyday and then sanitize the entire coop! Sheesh what a headache 🤕
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    Awe your avatar looks just like the polish I have (Bubbles)!!! So cute!

    Awe your avatar looks just like the polish I have (Bubbles)!!! So cute!
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    And then there were two - Batman (bubbles) and robin (tequila)

    And then there were two - Batman (bubbles) and robin (tequila)
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    Does she have mites??

    Hi all, these are the feet of my 3y/o polish hen Bubbles. I’ve never had a problem with mites, but I didn’t even know they were a thing until recently. The scales on Bubbles legs have been raised for awhile, but they don’t have the crustiness which seems to go along with scaly leg mites (at...
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    Hen can’t walk

    Thanks to the people who gave their advice and best wishes for Margarita. We made the tough decision yesterday to have her humanely euthanized as she was rapidly losing weight, was still immobile, and neither eating nor drinking on her own. She was such a wonderful chicken and she will be...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hello fellow Washingtonians!! well, I have a very sad predicament. I’ve been raising five chickens since 2017from day old chicks...I lost two this year and the third is suddenly not walking, so her future is uncertain. I’m going to college next year, and I also think it’s sad to only have two...
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    Hen can’t walk

    I had thought it might be arthritis. The first time we took her to the vet they didn’t say anything about arthritis, but she has an appointment coming up so I will definitely ask...I can’t imagine it’s sustainable to just keep giving her meds for it if it is arthritis, do you know of any natural...
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    Hen can’t walk

    Ok, that’s good to know. I hadn’t thought about any type of poisoning...I know my dad had sprinkled something with copper on the roof of our house to kill moss, I don’t know if any of it got on the grass. It did rain a lot between then and the time I let them back out to forage...maybe it could...
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    Hen can’t walk

    It’s not great quality, but I was able to capture a few steps. I feel like she’s gotten worse and all she can do is that backwards shuffle now.
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    The three musketeers - Tequila, Margarita, and Bubbles.

    The three musketeers - Tequila, Margarita, and Bubbles.
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    Hen can’t walk

    Hm, that’s good to know other people have had this happen. What kind of care did you give her? She’s inside our house in a medium dog crate now with her food and water and we’ll take her outside so she can stretch her wings multiple times a day and see if she’ll walk around at all. It’s cold now...
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    Hen can’t walk

    We’ve been putting vitamin b oil in some eggs and yoghurt and she will eat that pretty willingly...usually if she walks it’s so suddenly and for such a little time I don’t have time to video it, but I’ll try.
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    Hen can’t walk

    Hi all, well, this has been a difficult season for my chickens! I lost one earlier this year to a mysterious sickness, I just lost another to complications from sour crop, and now I have an Amerucana who can’t walk...I have two healthy hens outside in the coop right now (but they’re both...
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    Emergency please help!!!

    Hi all. Ok, so my polish hen has been acting wierdly. This morning when I let her out she was drinking and eating etc, but I come a few hours later and she's roosting and the other are all outside. I brought her down with the others but she was acting really wierdly....closing one eye and...
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