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So last night was scary... she was only able to walk sideways and when she did she was wobbling. She was screeching as if me touching her was extremely painful. She also was a little smellier than usual, not a chicken smell. I put some of the Monistat cream on her comb, wattles, earlobes and...

Also... should I be concerned that my hands all of a sudden strongly resemble her comb...

That’s what I was afraid of. No I haven’t yet. I was reading about that a little earlier. Based on the name of the cream, it looks like i would just use the same cream as you would use for vaginal yeast infections? I was planning on looking into that next. I’m also concerned about the odd sounds...

I can’t see any mites/lice, only one of them who was separated and passed away a few months back had them visible. But the scaly leg mites I haven’t been able to see even spending an hour inspecting each bird daily for about a month. I have only been able to see the scabs/scales, feather loss...

Hi, My girls have been struggling with scaly leg mites and lice for a few months now. I had two 7+ y/o hens die a few months ago and now I have two 3 y/o and a 8.5 y/o. One of the 3 y/o’s has had a bare inflamed butt for about a year now but other than that has been fine. I have treated the...

That’s the best I could get after 2 days of trying. I’m all clawed up on my legs and forearms. She doesn’t like me touching her comb, wattles or earlobes. None of my chickens ever have let me. They start to freak out and then don’t want to be held anymore. But I guess that’s good if you can’t...

Im sorry to hear about your bantam, what did the cancer look like when you opened her up? Was it just a mass of tissue? I lost mine also, I was planning on doing a necropsy but she died while I was at work and my parents like to bury my chickens within 30 min of finding them, so she had been...

I have an 8.5 y/o leghorn and two 3 y/o sexlinks. They recently have had an outbreak of lice, I treated the coop with permethrin and DE and it seems to be much better. They had scaly leg mites and mite bites on their combs as well but I have been doing foot soaks and applying petroleum jelly or...

She hasn’t really improved. I’ve been feeding her wet mash once a day and applesauce once a week. There was bruising on her skin after I did a massage every day for 5 days, that has improved by a lot, I think she may just be sensitive since she’s old and sick. Her behavior is a little less...

Fish Prime?!?!? As in tap water conditioner for aquariums?!?! Yes, you’re probably right, they are most likely poisoned... because you’re most likely adding the poison! Why are you adding the prime?? What’s wrong with tap water, that’s what everyone uses for their farm animals. Where did you...

My 7 year old hen appeared to have an impacted crop for the last 2 weeks. I have been trying the stool softener method and only giving her water and some apple sauce or yogurt. It seems to have gone down some since I started with the stool softener and massages. This is actually when I noticed...

Thanks, I read most of this the other day, I still wasn’t able to determine what else could be the issue, but I looked at the different options to solve different crop issues today. I am thinking of trying the stool softener method and seeing if that gets me anywhere (I made sure I got the...

It’s hard to get a clear picture that shows how enlarged she is. My hand almost fits around it. Originally I wasn’t able to even get my hand around all of the mass, now I can fit almost all of it in my hand. Her skin seems very stretched out and on one side of the mass was very very dry and flaky.

Yes I have been feeling it in the morning. It is always exactly the same, other than a possible small decrease in size a few days ago, it has remained the same size and same hardness. And no she hadn’t laid in over a year. She definitely isn’t pooping as often as normal and I haven’t noticed...