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She's still hanging in there, she's in a small cage in the house. We gave her a raw egg yesterday morning and a scrambled egg last night and she ate a few bites of each. Last night we gave her water through a syrenge, and this morning she is drinking on her own again. She still has very...

We are using Wazine 17 for now since we are not sure what is wrong and we do not want to "clog her" up with worms if that is the problem. (I think it was DAWG53 that suggested using Wazine 17 first.) So far, she has just had more watery stool and no visible parasites. We gave her some canned...

She's still alive today, and still slow. We are treating her for worms now.

Update: She tried to run (when I had her outside) and she fell forward onto her chest. She is not unbalanced from side to side. It almost looked like she had tripped and had her leg stuck under her body. I lifted her body up and she started walking again.

I have an older hen that I got from a friend last year. They thought that she was one of their older hens, and I haven't seen any problems with her until now. A few days ago her behavior suddenly changed from active and friendly to lethargic (she moved extremely slowly when walking or eating)...

I went ahead and put the antibiotic ointment in the eye.

I recently bought two Polish chicks (a couple of days old) to add to my flock. One is perfectly fine and very active, but the other is not looking very good at all. When I first got my chicks, both seemed healthy, except for one kep an eye closed most of the time. Over the last four days...