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    Flock Attacking Hen

    I have a 1.5 year old Rhode Island Red hen who is being bullied by the entire flock. Everyone is the same age and was raised together. The hen has a limp from a fall when she was younger. It’s never been an issue and she has always fit right in until recently. Other advisors have said to remove...
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    Sick Hen

    Thank you, I apologize. I will just comment under the original post next time. I have continued with the vitamins and soft food/egg. As of today she is much improved and standing and walking. She is weak is still not quite ready to be reintroduced to the flock. I have let her mingle with them a...
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    Sick Hen

    Yes she has gotten calcium and I tried a quarter of a b complex. She cannot stand. Poop is dark green
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    Sick Hen

    She’s not eating much so it’s empty and no abdominal swelling
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    Sick Hen

    Hey everyone, I posted last week about my sick barred rock hen. Shes about a year and a half old. Last Wednesday I found her in the floor of the coop unable to walk but trying to move around. She had some tracheal tales. I brought her inside and did an Epsom salt soak and gave her a dose of PND...
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    Sick Hen

    Her vent is clean and no prolapse. I gave her some poultry drench via syringe and placed her in our vacant brooder. She is eating crumbles and drinking electrolyte water. I have not noticed decreased egg production. I have seen a few soft eggs lately but I was unsure which hen they were from...
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    Sick Hen

    She is a year and a half old and I’m not sure about recent eggs. Her poop was pasty and dark green, sorry I didn’t think about pictures. I did not feel any swelling in her abdomen and her crop was empty. Congested sounds with each breath.
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    Sick Hen

    So I just found one of my barred rock hens on the floor of coop, she’s conscious and alert. She is limping and having a difficult time moving around and she had poop all over her bottom. Breathing also sounds congested. I put her down in the run and the other hens immediately starting attacking...
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    How do I integrate my 7 week old pullets?

    Hello, newish chicken mom here. I have a 10 sixteen week old chickens (2 roosters, 8 hens) and 11 7 week old pullets. We have a large coop and run, at night the older chickens stay in the coop and the babies are still in their brooder box, which is in the foyer of the coop. During the day, the...
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    Eye injury

    First time chicken mom here. I have a 5 week old production red that has sustained an eye injury. Eyelid is swollen with what appears to be stringy looking skin coming out. Some of the skin was dried and I loosened it up with a warm compress but when I tried to remove it, it seems to be...
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