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    Having trouble diagnosing and treating a sick hen (Updated with pics)

    Update: The hen seemed better for the past two days, it would talk, roost on a pole, and seemed less fluffed up and her tail was up. Today, it looks really bad, she is jast laying on the ground with a wing out and her eyes closed. It looks like her comb is darker, maybe blueish, compared to the...
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    Having trouble diagnosing and treating a sick hen (Updated with pics)

    Update: I looked the hen over completely and no lice. Also checked the crop and it was soft and squishy. She is eating a little and drinking. Feces are basically urine now. I'm thinking the hen might have a worm, any thoughts?
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    Having trouble diagnosing and treating a sick hen (Updated with pics)

    Quote: Not since I quarantined her.
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    Having trouble diagnosing and treating a sick hen (Updated with pics)

    Update: Today when I went to take pictures of her she looked more alert but she is still not walking around. Her feeder was full so she had not eaten but when I put the food up to her beak she ate a little bit, it appears the she is drinking water though as the bottle was 1/4 full.
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    Having trouble diagnosing and treating a sick hen (Updated with pics)

    Yesterday one of my Delaware-New Hampshire hens around 7-8 months old started acting oddly, it would not leave the coop and would stand around by itself fluffed up, most notably it would not go on a roosting pole at night. I noticed this first yesterday at night and I quarantined it today in the...
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