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    Mystery Illness - please help diagnose

    Actually he did have a great life. He and his 6 hens were free to roam our big yard everyday. They loved to sit in the shade under the trees in our orchard eating apples and pears. They spent a lot of time sitting in the shade under our deck watching the world go by. And they got free range in...
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    Mystery Illness - please help diagnose

    Thank you for your reply. However, my rooster has since passed away. I don’t think it was a vitamin deficiency since I had given him liver and eggs to try to get him back on his feet. Both of those foods are super nutrient dense. I think at 9.5 years old, he just came down with something that he...
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    Mystery Illness - please help diagnose

    Also, I did try to feel his legs early on. I am no expert in chickens, but everything seemed ok. I didn’t see any wounds either.
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    Mystery Illness - please help diagnose

    His diet is an organic feed. I also give them sunflower seeds as a treat. He has plenty of opportunity to eat with me feeding him by hand. But he won’t eat. I have offered him fried egg and liver and little bits of ribeye steak. He just won’t eat it anymore. I give him milk because I figure...
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    Mystery Illness - please help diagnose

    I have a rooster that is nearly 9.5 years old. For a couple months, he has had a limp. Then a few weeks ago, I noticed he seemed to have slightly droopy wings, though I kind of wondered if I was imagining that or not. Then he started sitting more. Not unexpected due to his limp and age. Then he...
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    Please help diagnose

    So here are the pictures of my hen. The first one is a few days after the flystrike (August 27) where you can see her internal lining bulging out where her skin was eaten away by the maggots. (I initially thought it was an abscess, but thankfully the knowledgeable folks here told me it wasn’t...
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    Please help diagnose

    So I’m finally posting an update for my hen. I’ll give a quick recap first: I found my hen with most of her backside feathers gone, what looked like a big bulging abscess (it was NOT an abscess) and a bunch of maggots crawling around. I immediately got a tweezers and spent about an hour picking...
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    Please help diagnose

    Actually, she’s doing ok at the moment. I really don’t think the vet option would work seeing as how she is 6.5 years old. But I’ve been bathing her in Epsom salts and now rubbing antibiotic ointment on her. She’s eating and walking around. The bulge on her backside, that I’ve been informed is...
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    Please help diagnose

    Thank you everyone for your responses. I had not seen many of them till just now - sorry new to this board. I will try to get a better picture. It’s very concerning if that bulge could actually be her stomach lining. What can be done about that? I was not aware of flystrike or it’s devastating...
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    Please help diagnose

    Thank you again for your response. It was definitely flystrike, but that bulge is quite a bit below her vent, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a prolapsed vent. Looks like an abscess to me. But not sure what I should do about it if it is. But of course the first concern is her belly and whether or...
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    Please help diagnose

    Right. But I’m not certain she is egg bound…
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    Please help diagnose

    I don’t know what’s wrong with my hen. She’s about 6.5 years old. She’s had a messy bottom for a week or two. This has happened to my hens in the past and always sorts itself out, so I didn’t think anything of it. Then, about two days ago I noticed there weren’t really any feathers on it. As I...
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