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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 63 Over the past 24 hours: Weight change: +100g (due to fluid injections, see below) ⚠️🚨 1 bowel movement (see notes from past few days) Crop size didn't decrease much overnight. This is the first morning in weeks where her crop has not drained after vomiting the evening before...
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 62 Over the past 24 hours: Weight change: +6g ⚠️🚨 2 bowel movements (see notes from yesterday) Activity level: Will drink water on her own (this is true most days). However, I sometimes must stop her, or she overfills her crop. I believe she is severely dehydrated due to...
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 61 Over the past 24 hours: Weight change: None ⚠️🚨3 bowel movements This is way less than past few days Poop is also extremely watery and large amounts Presumably this change is the result of antibiotics, given nothing else changed since yesterday. Activity level: Slept most...
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 60 Crop size: Size at bedtime: Racquetball sized Size this morning: Half a golf ball size Over the past 24 hours: Weight change: -29g (-2% of total body weight) 16 bowel movements Activity level: Slept most of the day, but would walk around and scratch at the dirt a bit when...
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    Subcutaneous Fluids and Injections

    40 minute course on Avian Subcutaneous Fluid Technique https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/system/training-courses/wildlife-health-8/index.html#/
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 59 Over the past 24 hours: Weight change: -42g (-3% of total body weight) Activity level slightly lower than yesterday 105.2F temperature (measured under wing) 15 bowel movements Treatment yesterday: Tube feeding 1: Water, electrolyte powder, oil of oregano, 2 tsp Harrison's...
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 58 Over the past 24 hours: Weight change: -44g (-3% of total body weight) However, her crop was smaller this morning vs yesterday morning Small uptick in activity level She demanded to be let outside (loud squawking) and proceeded to take a dirt bath (image above) Leaked...
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon Log: Day 57 Over the past 24 hours: No weight change No activity level change No forced vomiting required 11 bowel movements Treatment yesterday: Tube feeding 1: Water, probiotic powder, electrolyte powder, oil of oregano, Nutri-Drench Tube feeding 2: Water, probiotic powder...
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    New member needs help solving mystery chicken sickness!

    Are you new to chickens? When did you first get chickens? How many chickens do you have right now? Started my first flock with four sweet baby chicks 2.5 years ago! What breeds do you have? 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Black Australorp, 2 Easter Eggers What are your favorite aspects of raising...
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    Chicken sick for 8 weeks (mystery illness)! Lemon needs help!

    Lemon, our beloved pet chicken, has been sick for over 8 weeks. I've tried nearly everything, but she continues to decline. No bird vets available in the area, so I really need your help! Picture of healthy Lemon (scroll down for pictures of sick Lemon) Main problem: Slow crop / crop...
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