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    Wet fowl pox or canker?

    phew, thanks for the link. It is really hard to say if it is wet fowl pox in her case. I am in Italy, rural area, the vets are not much interested in chickens. If there is no rotten or bad smell from the beak with the lesions, can I exclude canker?
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    Wet fowl pox or canker?

    I can´t smell anything weird from her beak. Perhaps it smells a bit sweet but not rotten. Her eyes are looking healthy. I never had dry or any pox in my flock. Mosqitoes, oh yes a lot. When I got her early this year in February she already had a rattling sound when breathing and her voice was...
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    Wet fowl pox or canker?

    My sweet Australorp lady is going through hard times. She is breathing with her mouth open for 2 weeks now. She has lost weight rapidly and is barely eating. Most of the time she is standing in some corner of the run and is trying to breath. The vet prescribed antibiotics, 5 days Amoxicillin and...
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    Hey, more than two years later, the chicken is still running around. The toe is still deformed but doesn´t seem to bother her. :)
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    Thoughts on Roosters??

    I have my third Australorp rooster now (one died in defending the hens, another one I gave to another flock). They are huge birds but so gentle. I have never seen mine being forceful to the hens, almost politely asking and accepting if refused. They are also very friendly to other roosters. He...
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    Ok thank you so much. I took the dosage from here: https://poultrydvm.com/drugs/amoxicillin For Amoxillin/Clavulanate it says 125-250mg/kg (8-12hours). You think it is too much? Last night she was better, she ate some Pasta, I saw her drinking and getting up. The swelling also seemed less...
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    The poor bird got worse. After the surgery that went so well, the swelling further up at the toe got bigger and very hot. She is sitting around all day now and stopped eating, even if I offer her boiled egg, spaghetti or meat. I am so worried. This morning I gave her a first dose of...
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    broken toe did we do the right thing?

    That looks pretty similar to the toe of my hen. Were the antibiotics successful?
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    Update: During the night I did some more reading here about bumblefoot and I decided to open the scab and see if I can remove the kernel. After soaking the foot for 10 min in Epsom salt I poured plenty of Betadine over the toe then carefully made a cut with a sterile scalpel. I could peel the...
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    This morning I caught her again and soaked her foot in an Epsom salt bath. I noticed she doesn't curl the swollen toe like the others and it was very hot. After the bath I saw a scab and a yellowish swelling just below the nail (see photo). I dried the foot and desinfected the toe with Betadine...
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    Thank you so much for your advice! I tried to take pictures of the feet while standing but the girl is quite shy and after I caught her the other day she is running away from me. She was eating a bit of egg yolk and Spaghetti but without enthusiasm. I decided to separate her from the the other...
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    Australorps in Italy

    There is the gang of three. But the days of free ranging are gone now. A fox approached in the middle of the day and carried one of the hens to the outer fence of the property where he got stuck. We were able to take the chicken off the fox. She didn't have a scratch. It is the third time she...
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    Swollen toe, no scab. Is it bumblefoot?

    Hello, my Austrolorp hen has a swollen toe (see pics). I have noticed it 8 weeks ago, the toe looked deformed, the last section of the toe with the nail pointing upwards. It got better after a week or so and then got worse. She is not laying since then and has lost some appetite. Also she is...
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    Australorps in Italy

    I am german living in rural Italy close the Appenin mountains. I am keeping currently a mini flock of 3 Australorps. When I started with 2 hens and a rooster 3 years ago I had none experience with chickens. In the meantime one of my hens got broody and we had 2 little chicks. I can not imagine...
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