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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    Gtaus, Thank you for your post. I was a nurse for 20 years - so I know what you mean about smells. It has been 15 years since I was a nurse. And we have come late to the rural life. I wanted chickens even when I lived in the city - knowing it gave us some food security and autonomy that we...
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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    Thanks! I am way past being pregnant... so that is a big ol' NO! LOL I will consider... I cooked older eggs (way before she had this issue) last night, a dozen for my husband. When I opened it today - the smell was not necessarily 'off' but I kept sniffing because I could not decide. My dogs...
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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    I am leaning this way - but it seems so wasteful to toss 3-4 dozen eggs...
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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    Thanks, I will go get some mint tea right now. Maybe that will help...
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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    I was not sure where to put this post - and so this seemed the best place. Not sure of even the response I expect, but a conversation about it would help. A week or so ago, I found one of my girls was sick, very sick. She somehow got injured, and was infested with maggots. I had to put her...
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    Is that the inside of my chicken? - Should I put her down?

    Thank you - she was put to peace. I'm still crying about it, but it was the best thing for her.
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    Is that the inside of my chicken? - Should I put her down?

    Thank you - I am desperately trying to find a vet open today - it isn't going well.
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    Is that the inside of my chicken? - Should I put her down?

    My Blue Laced Red Wyandotte - was fine 2 days ago. She is just under a year old. Today - I wanted to check her because I see she is suddenly losing a lot of feathers. I turned her over after a bath and it looks like she is split up the middle. She has white worms - which I assume are maggots...
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    Prednisolone & my hurt chicken

    This has been going on for weeks, she isn't getting better. And as soon as she started laying again, it started again. I understand some hens can have pain related to laying, and she lays the biggest eggs I have had. Her right leg is weak - and she struggles to walk. It seems painful, for...
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    Prednisolone & my hurt chicken

    So - it's been weeks now and my hen was finally diagnosed with sciatica - and was placed on prednisolone for a few weeks. She finally came off - and is still not walking right, but she is getting along.. okay. I am on the fence about it still - but right now she is okay and with the flock. She...
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    2 Weeks- still not walking - is there any hope?

    She did not mention Mareks - and Zoe is bright with red combs and eating everything she is offered. She does not seem to have the signs and symptoms of it. I had put them on a whole seed feed and I think they were nitpicking through and getting the tasty stuff (if nutrition is even the cause)...
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    2 Weeks- still not walking - is there any hope?

    No, the doctor examined her and said it was not necessary. She didn't find any reason to believe it was injured.
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    2 Weeks- still not walking - is there any hope?

    For the last two weeks we have had this hen who won't walk more than a few tentative steps. She mainly sits down. Her foot does not place as a normal foot would, and she slips and slides with it. We were keeping her inside for a few days while we tried to figure out if she was egg bound. We...
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    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    how do you treat this - if she did get some mold?
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    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    We are keeping her separate - so she has her own food and water. She is in a part of the run that that other chickens are right next to. I also put her into the house each night so she is sleeping with them. This morning she left the coop on her own - I didn't get to observe it, so I don't know...
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