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    Help! Sick for five (now 7) days. What should I do?

    Thank you. I have dripped water in her break, but she would only take a few drops and then just let it run. I have a sick dog as well, and while i was at my dog appt I asked the vet if she could check her droppings for worms. She hasn't gotten back to me yet. I read thread after thread and...
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    Help! Sick for five (now 7) days. What should I do?

    My girl is still hanging on. She hasn't eaten or drank in a week. She's in the nest box and just doing runny poops right in the box. I keep expecting her to be gone every time I check on her, but she keeps hanging on. I don't know what to do at this point. Not knowing the correct course of...
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    Help! Sick for five (now 7) days. What should I do?

    I just talked to the feed stores. One recommended deworming with piprazine and possibly treating water with sulmet solution for various other things. The other feed store recommended penicillin injections assuming she has an infection. What to do?
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    Help! Sick for five (now 7) days. What should I do?

    Crop feels empty. The swelling in more between the legs/ vent area. She feels all bone in the crop area.
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    Help! Sick for five (now 7) days. What should I do?

    I have a buff orp that suddenly was not looking good five days ago. I thought she was egg bound and pretty much expected to have a dead chicken that day. I've had my chickens for about three years and have lost two in that time frame quickly and unexpectantly. But this is different... Symptoms...
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    Help. Something is wrong with her.

    I have an almost two year old buff orp and something is wrong with her. I gave the girls fresh water( they were almost out),and a treat of cracked corn. All the other chickens went for the corn. She went for the water and drank forever. Then she walked back out in the pen in slow motion. She...
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    need advice re. muddy run

    I have a covered dirt run and had it turn to muck after several weeks of consatant NW rain/wind storms. I thought I was raking out the dropping pretty good during the dry months, but I could tell by the smell of the 2-3 inch developing muck that I was mistaken. After almost losing my boot in it...
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    molting and VERY Thin!?!? PICS ADDED

    Quote: Thanks everyone for your help:) I have a total of nine. My six buff orps, one americana (was told that, but probably an EE from the posts I've read)( had another but lost that one), and added two black bantam cochin frizzes for fun at the last minute. One didn't frizzle, and the other...
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    molting and VERY Thin!?!? PICS ADDED

    Wow... thanks for the info! It makes sense, I'm just shocked that she went from being so solid to bone thin so quickly. I guess I need to hit the feed store. I feed them pellets, treats, and occasionally oyster shells. Should I seperate her to feed her or give these supplements to everyone...
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    molting and VERY Thin!?!? PICS ADDED

    First time posting pics. Hope this works. She has always been my biggest bird and now she is dworfed by the buffs. Can this happen in ten days from a molt?
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    molting and VERY Thin!?!? PICS ADDED

    I will try and get a pic and figure out how to post it soon:)
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    molting and VERY Thin!?!? PICS ADDED

    I just got back from a ten day vacation and I'm worried. My chickens were taken well care of by a friend, so I was surprised to see my americana when I got home. All her tail feathers and wing tip feathers are gone. As well as overall neck and body thinning. My first thought was, so this is...
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    Trimming chickens toe nails

    The Chickens' Maid : I trim our chickens' nails if they get too long. Our bantams sometimes get curled nails and our rooster's one spur tends to grow into his leg. I just do it (carefully) with our goat hoof clippers. I just take off a little bit at a time and try to avoid hitting any veins...
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    Trimming chickens toe nails

    I have a cochin who I need to trim her nails too. She has been on the nest FOREVER being broody. I cant break her and I think its because she doesnt like the rooster chasing her evertime she gets down. Her nails have started to curl the've gotten so long. Her feathers cover her feet so I did't...
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    rooster chasing broody hen back to nest

    I have a broody cochin frizzle. She has ben on the nest FOREVER! She has been before and gone about 6-8 weeks, then one day hopped off and joined the flock. (I take the eggs away) So, when she did it again I figured I'd let it run the course vs. caging her up to break it. This time I didn't keep...
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