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    Slow recovery from minor foot wounds, or am I missing something?

    First picture is the foot he wouldn't put any weight on that I peeled the scabs from to check if there was anything more concerning lurking under them. Had nothing but healthy looking, pink, and in some places bleeding tissue under the scabs. Second picture is the foot he had been willing to hop...
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    Slow recovery from minor foot wounds, or am I missing something?

    On Tuesday I found my ~9 month old guy not wanting to stand. When I did urge him to stand and walk, he would not put any weight at all on one foot and was just hopping around. I looked at his feet and they both had several scabs (a big one on the center of each foot and several more on toes)...
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    What's wrong with this liver? (Necropsy pictures)

    Thank you got the input! His skin looked normal. I was so focused on the concerning liver that I didn't take good lung pictures 🤦‍ But those looked normal to my eye as well. We are actually NPIP certified so unless they've managed to get exposed something at home since our last testing, typhoid...
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    What's wrong with this liver? (Necropsy pictures)

    I lost one of my favorite cockerels today. The first symptom I noticed was on Friday afternoon, he was sitting in a favored sunny spot and did not want to stand back up. I picked him up and felt that he was very thin. He seemed weak and very reluctant to stand (although he had put himself into...
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    Oregon - Looking for Brahma

    Feather & Fern Farmstead in Oregon City, if you're still looking. Not sure about the rules on linking to external websites but you can google the name.
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    Brahma Chicks

    We are still raising Brahmas though, and have improved our stock considerably since this 2018 post :) I've responded with more info by message
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    Lethargic gasping chick

    Thank you! Poop is scarce but normal (no blood). She's been on medicated chick starter since I got her at a few days old. It's stored inside in a feed container and I've been feeding just a scoop or so at a time throughout the day so would have seen if it had managed to get moldy. I've got a few...
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    Lethargic gasping chick

    Thank you for the input! She is one of the few chicks that I haven't bred myself so without having a flock full of her relatives to be familiar with their health, I guess something genetic is certainly possible. I do have one sister of hers and five additional unrelated chicks from the same...
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    Lethargic gasping chick

    Hope this works, I've never uploaded to YouTube before. Everything looked normal in her beak and as far down her throat as I can see.
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    Lethargic gasping chick

    Crop was empty when I discovered her like this. She ate some scrambled eggs today (although less than one whole egg for the entire day) so I'll check if her crop has emptied again in the morning. I have her separated so she can have some peace without her siblings running circles around her.
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    Lethargic gasping chick

    Hi all, I need some help with a ~1 month old pullet. I've honestly raised hundreds of chicks and have never seen this so I'm stumped. She is gasping to inhale but has no other respiratory symptoms (no breathing sounds, no eye bubbles, etc.). I noticed her do it a few times yesterday and thought...
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    Recovering from mites

    Thank you both! I've been so lucky to have avoided mites all these years so I just had no clue how slow of a recovery is normal with a severe infestation. Many of my breeding plots revolve around him so fingers crossed you're both right and he makes a full recovery with a little time 😊
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    Recovering from mites

    So I couldn't get any pictures of his skin but it looks a thousand times better than two days ago. I didn't want to stress him more than necessary so didn't check every single inch but took quick looks at the spots I knew had been bad. I spotted no living bugs AND no scabs/ gross whatever...
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    Recovering from mites

    He is about a year old (I was told he was a February 2020 hatch). I'll see if I can get some clear pictures of his skin... he clearly hasn't been handled a whole lot so is a bit of a panic when you hold him. I use flock raiser all the time so he's already been on a 20% feed, and I've been doing...
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    Recovering from mites

    I brought a new rooster home recently and he had a terrible mites infestation. Like clusters and scabs on nearly every part of his body. He's been bathed and then had an elector dip (since they were so thoroughly everywhere, I didn't want to risk missing some spots by just spraying). I plan to...
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