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    Hen flips out when being lowered to ground

    Thanks. I'll give that a go. And the sitting down before letting her off my lap. She is perfectly happy to climb all over me to get at greens and easily takes treats by hand but not while being held. It's just the putting down or being shifted. And she's a giant orpington, so we'll see. I have...
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    Hen flips out when being lowered to ground

    Just wondering if anyone's experienced. We have the runt of the litter and very scared hen who we have to pick up for her bumble feet and poo butt baths quite often. We're wondering if she could have vertigo or what might be going on with her. Any time we go to put her down after picking her...
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    Loose and bare skin under keel?

    About 4 days for the coccidiosis - this one had a very bad case of what we assume was coccidiosis beginning of December. She was in the house with watery green poos for almost two weeks. She seems to be doing better than the others at the moment. We're starting a worm treatment tomorrow in case...
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    Loose and bare skin under keel?

    I've got 4 year old orpingtons here in New Zealand. Summer has turned hot this past week. 3 of the girls are doing an odd middle of summer moult - losing mainly their tail feathers, some butt around the vent, and one has lost all on the crop, and another is bald under the keel. But also where...
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    One girl with fly strike - anything I can do to see/stop other hens that might also have?

    We're in New Zealand. Our one 4 yr old orpington is at the emergency vet - and we're hoping will pull thru but not confident. It's a bad bad wound. And I've been worried about our other girl that also gets poop stuck to the backside (others are pretty good at cleaning, but they're all have at...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    In case anyone's looking at this later on for assistance with their chickens - not sure what's happened. She's on the mend. Might likely be coccidosis, we're treating the whole flock at the moment. But she's back with them and seems happy. Still not 100% but eating and participating, still some...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    She's been drinking, and still not eating as much, but we got more in her today. She did a small brown poo yesterday which I'm guessing was cecal, then right back to loads of green/watery yellowish urates. At least half of the green poos are solid at least. Maybe it'll just be more days than I...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    Sour crop is all gone. And her crop remains empty; she's barely eating. Poos have remained the same. Absolutely trash. Been a few formed green ones, in between though are the yellow liquid urates and liquid green poo. She seems in good spirits, acting normal other than bored, bad poos, sleeping...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    She's only been like this for three days, and I believe she laid that first day. The crop has come down a fair bit, so we're trying a small amount of water with electrolytes and wet feed. She won't touch egg or try if we put a treat in front of her face. She's quite off most foods. Beak also...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    And we're now thinking blockage? - as her crop is now hot and full of water, where it wasn't two hours ago.
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    Is this eye med safe for my hens eyes?

    Thank you all. Sorry for delay in posting a pic. Them taking down the listing is what worried me, as well as the various boxes I keep finding under the same name. Attaching photo. My guess is they're selling a basic antibiotic that we can get cheaply, selling it for much more, and putting it...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    We have a 4 year old orpington (with 4 others) not doing so well in the past 48 hours. We're in NZ so summer here. Also just had just had a proper fence put in (about 48 hours ago) so girls have a bit of new area, and wondering if she ate something bad, even though we checked the area and she's...
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    Is this eye med safe for my hens eyes?

    So I bought what I thought was terramycin on amazon for my girls but appears not to be, and I'm not sure it's safe. The listing said it's for pets including birds, but the listing has been taken down and I'm finding the same product with different ingredients on other country's amazon sites...
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    Stumped - thought was broody, maybe impacted crop or vent gleet?

    Thanks. We've given her electrolytes and some calcium - but she's starting to poop somewhat normal but small ones now. And the crop is getting smaller so fingers crossed it's just an impaction (that is luckily working its way through). But could be secondary to something else. She's brighter...
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    Stumped - thought was broody, maybe impacted crop or vent gleet?

    We have a 4 year old Orpington, runt of the litter, hen who has me stumped. We're in the southern hemisphere, so it's spring here. She eats a high protein meal (17%) and has sometimes random wheat, greens, corn peas, sunflower seeds, scrambled egg or yogurt as treats. She's picky and doesn't...
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