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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    she's inside in my room with the heat on (it's at least 75 degrees in here now!) after that last soaking and semi-poop she's definitely perked up quite a bit, and ive put a dark blanket over her cage so that she can just go to sleep. i think i'm going to call it a night with her for now and keep...
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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    good news everyone! she got a second really long soaking and she was able to poop/pee some. she is looking a little better and is interested in food. i'm going to just keep on soaking her every hour or two until i go to bed. i would still like to figure out what is wrong with her though, b/c the...
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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    it wont come out. its almost like it's part of her skin. we soaked her and it didnt change. what is it? are my other chickens going to get this too? this is terrible.
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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    and a close up... please help!!!
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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    here are pics of her vent - the dark stuff just wont come off and now she is straining.
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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    Thanks so much everyone... She is about 8 months old, she has a sister who is laying, but she is not laying yet. She lives with 7 other chickens in a very spacious area - a coop for them to sleep in at night (i lost a few last year to raccoons so they have to be shut up at night) and during the...
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    Help with sick hen! constipation???

    Hello everyone - I'm new here and I'm sorry that my first post is an emergency... One of my little japanese bantam hens is sick - she was moving slow, hunkered down and had her eyes closed. I picked her up (they are usually hard to catch!) and looked at her vent, and it is full up of completely...
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