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    Hen with extremely bloated abdomen

    I'm following this thread because I'm dealing with something similar. I lost a hen a few weeks ago, she was acting the same way yours was. So when a second hen started acting that way recently, I took some action. I took mine to a vet because she is kind of a pet for us, more than our other...
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    Treated for ascites, also has impacted crop or gizzard that is not going down, and now she is burpin

    Hi, I have a chicken (almost 3 yrs old) who was about to die from ascites two weeks ago, and amazingly, she's still alive. The vet prescribed an antibiotic (Tribrissen) and it seems to have cleared up her swollen, water-logged belly. The vet also did an x-ray and found that her crop and gizzard...
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    Possible Egg Bound, and some questions after reading many threads on the topic

    Hi, My 2.5 year old New Hampshire Red (named Ticker) is possibly egg bound. I just lost another chicken, Ruby, last week to internal laying (I think that's what it was), and I am in knots over this situation with Ticker. Today I went and read a whole bunch of threads here about egg binding and...
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    Walks like she is egg bound, but she just finished molting and isn't laying...

    Good thinking Eggcessive. Thanks for your help in figuring this out.
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    Walks like she is egg bound, but she just finished molting and isn't laying...

    Hi, I just want to post an update on Ruby. She died during the night. I did not do a necropsy, but I did do a physical exam. With my limited knowledge of internal laying (I have read a lot about it but have never seen it), I would say that was what had happened to her. She didn't have a lot of...
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    Walks like she is egg bound, but she just finished molting and isn't laying...

    Thank you so much for the replies. This morning I went out with the intention of giving her some water with electrolytes, some calcium mixed into yogurt and I was going to check her vent for an egg. I found her looking worse than ever. She wasn't interested in the food and water and couldn't...
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    Lethargic hen, hasn't laid in months

    I had a chicken like yours earlier this year. She did not look good! It went on for months. At her worst point, she barely moved during the day, and would spend all her time hunched up with her eyes closed. She didn't lay eggs for months and her feathers looked awful. Finally I wormed her...
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    Walks like she is egg bound, but she just finished molting and isn't laying...

    Hi, My 2.5 year old New Hampshire Red is just coming out of a molt. Her comb is still a dull pink, not the vibrant red is normally is when she's laying. There is something obviously wrong with her because she is walking funny. Her bottom hangs down, kind of like a penguin. She is out and about...
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    Hatching right now, and there is water under the incubator on the floor!??

    Hi, This is my second time hatching with a styrofoam incubator that I am renting from our local cooperative extension office. Today is Day 22 and the chicks are starting to hatch. The incubator sits on the wood floor in my living room. It's an old drafty house with a wood stove in the room. I...
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    Little bump on the back, where tail feathers start, and new little feathers are poking out of it?

    Thank you! You are all the best!
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    Little bump on the back, where tail feathers start, and new little feathers are poking out of it?

    Hi Ready, I had my husband take photos but they are not in focus at all! I tried to Google it and am wondering if it's the oil gland. Does that sit on the back at the base of their body?
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    Little bump on the back, where tail feathers start, and new little feathers are poking out of it?

    Hi, I always find so much useful information here, just when I need it! Hoping you can help me. I have 10 pullets that I incubated and they are now 7 months old. One of them was scratching and giving her feathers a shake today and I noticed that she had a little white bump on her skin - in the...
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    I was told these eggs were Red Sex Links but when they hatched...

    Thanks. I was told that they were all going to be Red Sex Links and I would be able to tell after hatching which was male and female. It was explained what the parent chickens would be - the rooster was a RI red or so and the hen something else. Apparently this was not the case with all of them...
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    I was told these eggs were Red Sex Links but when they hatched...

    Thanks for your reply. The chipmunk one is bigger and rounder than the others. It does have some fluff around the neck and face. It is very docile. Would love to know what it is.
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    I was told these eggs were Red Sex Links but when they hatched...

    ...clearly they are not. Can you help me identify them? I rented the incubator and purchased the eggs from our local cooperative extension office and was told that the dozen I got were all Red Sex Links. Some are, but some are not. Here are photos of the three that are not. Thank you for any...
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