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    Very very sick hen

    Now that I caught her and held her, I don't question that they are bug bites. Much more poxy up close. I have the vaccine ordered and hope it arrives soon, as well as some extra stuff I am hoping will help the ones who come down with it. I read this morning that a female mosquito can keep the...
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    Very very sick hen

    I keep checking the chickens to see if anyone else is showing signs of the pox, and I initially panicked when I saw this young maran and thought she has the pox when I saw these two spots on her. She has one near her right ear and one on her left eyelid. They are unchanged from yesterday. Could...
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    Very very sick hen

    I was set to take her in to the vet on Monday, but sadly she passed very early Monday morning. Honestly, though, I wonder if she had something else going on secondary that I didn't treat in time that contributed. She did well Sunday during the day, she even pecked my SIL trying to get her tube...
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    Pox or canker?

    It looks like pox to me. Is this the only one you have that is showing signs at this point? Is she separated from any others?
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    Very very sick hen

    I was able to find aquarium tubing today and mixed up some food and got some down here using the tubing. My SIL helped, and then we got just one shot of the inside of her mouth, not a very good pic but I am attaching the picture. Breathing is labored again, more than this morning, and she now...
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    Very very sick hen

    I was able to get some fluids down her, not a whole lot but definitely better than I was doing. Side note, I figured out how to help her breathe - I noticed she had the most trouble breathing while laying down, so I wrapped her loosely in a towel and propped her breast on a rolled up towel and...
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    Very very sick hen

    I looked at the peafowl guide, and all I have on hand at the moment is a tiny syringe, no tubing, and I am alone so this will have to do. Her throat will look like the bird in the post? As long as I avoid the trachea, I can pour water down her without getting it into her lungs?
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    Very very sick hen

    What sort of tubing, and how far? Is there any kind of guide? I am willing to try anything. She is a good bird, I hate to lose her but I am fighting a haed battle to get her to drink anything when she is struggling to breathe so much.
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    Very very sick hen

    This is how she is breathing, through her mouth. Her breath is quite bad now and a couple days ago was okay. The ag extension people have given her zero hope but I'm just wondering about the interior lesions....do they continue to grow like cancer?
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    Very very sick hen

    I can't hold her and take pictures inside and I'm the only one available. Am attaching pictured of how she looks on the outside, but I am certain she has things going on in the windpipe due to her labored breathing and the plaques that are around her beak. I just knew she would die last night...
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    Very very sick hen

    I have a hen who went through a fairly mild trauma (dog got hold of her, but she was not injured per se, mostly sobbered on, no bleeding, some feathers missing). My flock went through fowl pox maybe a year and a half ago, but she has come back up with it, I'm sure from the trauma. I put her in...
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    Excessively Broody Hen

    I have posted this before on other threads, but will offer it as a weird maybe. I too have Orpingtons that will not give it up for quite some time, even weeks. I read where a woman said she played chick noises from YouTube. There is even a 3 hour long video of baby chicks peeping. I just turend...
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    Silver lace wyandotte....young roo?

    Just to update, I took this pic this evening of the remaining Wyandottes next to each other. Their wattles and combs are quite different, the roo on the left and the pullet on the right I am guessing.
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    Fowl Pox!???

    I did not have juveniles at the time, but did turn loose 4 more EE pullets a few months later. One of them immediately came up with scabs near her left eye, but again she had a pea comb as well and in 3 or so days it cleared up and she was fine. I have had no problems since then so I hope they...
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    Fowl Pox!???

    None of mine progressed to the wet version of the fowl pox, all stayed dry thankfully. For treatment, I caught up all of my hens (buff Orpington and Easter eggers) and contained them as they were all free range at the time, just to make treatment easier on me. I had two waterers available, in...
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