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    Treating articular gout with ammonium chloride?

    Thanks for your reply. I searched the forums pretty well before posting and didn’t find much. The articles you cited were part of my research too. I guess I’m going to give it a shot and under dose…
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    Treating articular gout with ammonium chloride?

    I’ve posted about Bebee, my Speckled Sussex, before. She’s had recurring swelling in her feet and shanks for a couple of years now. I’ve ruled out bumblefoot and Mycoplasma synoviae (treated 3x with Tylosin, Enrofloxacin, and Doxy-Tyl; no lasting effect. There were never any MS symptoms in the...
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    Single swollen leg (lower shank), head shaking, pale comb

    How did your girl do? Merry Christmas!
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    Trend? Speckled Sussex and Mycoplasma Synoviae MS

    When searching these forums for info on MS symptoms I noticed something interesting: it seemed like quite a few posts were about speckled Sussex hens. Bebee, my afflicted chicken, is a speckled Sussex and so far (fingers crossed x100) her flock mates of all different breeds are not showing...
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    Single swollen leg (lower shank), head shaking, pale comb

    Thank you so much for your help and time. I think her hocks are a little swollen as well. MS is seeming the most likely at this point. I already have everyone on tetracycline, which MS seems to be sensitive to, according to the white papers I've read. I've never used antibiotics with this flock...
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    Single swollen leg (lower shank), head shaking, pale comb

    She was still on the roost this morning when I went to go check on her and it’s obvious she wasn't super keen on getting down, but she did and her affect seems a little better, even if she still looks terrible. She ate and drank and when I let them out she came right out. It looks like maybe her...
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    Single swollen leg (lower shank), head shaking, pale comb

    I’ll get a better picture of both legs in the morning. I don’t recall a green tinge to the swelling. The scratch is near the swelling, farther up the shank. You can sort of see it in this photo…it looks a little brown, but I think that’s bad photo, not reality. She’s not truly limping, either...
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    Single swollen leg (lower shank), head shaking, pale comb

    My speckled Sussex Beebee has been looking worse and worse. Her comb has been pale for a while, but she's been molting. Now, though, one of her legs is swollen and she has that sick, hunched over look. She's starting to shake her head every few seconds when she's standing still, and every now...
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    Treating a bobcat bite—squeeze, not puncture

    Thank you for your reply and I’m sorry you lost girls to a bobcat. Mac didn’t make it. She passed about an hour ago. I was half expecting it but I’m so sad. She was a good, sweet girl.
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    Treating a bobcat bite—squeeze, not puncture

    Tl;dr: bobcat attack, no punctures, possible broken/dislocated wing that I immobilized with a modded t-shirt. She’s inside and steadily declining. I fear internal injuries. What else can I do? Is the wrap a mistake? There are no avian vets near me who see chickens. I have tried before. Macaroni...
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    The Tale of Mystery and Gremlin

    I hope she grows new feathers soon too! She's freezing. We went from summer to fall in about one day. I'm knitting a chicken sweater as fast as I can.
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    The Tale of Mystery and Gremlin

    I have two Easter eggers, one of whom is a carbon copy of Hey Hey from the Disney movie Moana (legal name: Mystery), and one who is an anxious escape artist (Laura Houdini Gremlin). For the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with a string of chicken issues and so I’ve been a little…high strung. A...
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    Not eating post-coccidiosis & mite treatment

    She's separated again right now. When I went to go check on her a little bit ago she had eaten some of the scratch and pellets, though not nearly as much as I'd expect considering how little she's eaten over the past week. I do think she's able to see to a certain degree, but not in her left...
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    Not eating post-coccidiosis & mite treatment

    TL;DR: my special needs chicken isn’t eating after a bout of coccidiosis and mite flare-up, nor had she laid an egg in a week. What to do? long version: My girl Mystery has had a rough few months. She’s partially blind to begin with so it’s always been tough for her. She survived the fox bite...
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    Fox attack recovery—what more to do & likelihood of survival?

    Picture of her wound (and her cute face) attached, though shortly after I took this as I was cutting away the feathers sticking to the cut I discovered that it extends farther on the left side. She seems to be holding on so far. She’s still alert, still eating and drinking, and she even tried to...
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