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Oh also sure is now in quarantine so I can monitor her better, I'll keep updating

Okay looking at other posts I'm thinking a canker, which needs metronidazole, which needs a prescription unless you get the stuff for fish- Metroplex? I have no idea how to dose it for a chicken though.

Okay, so we had tornadoes in the area last night, our power is still out since 7:30 last night, a tree is down, etc, so I was yet again unable to catch her up, but I did notice the lump hadn't gone down, ruling out a bee unfortunately. I got her tonight though and Holy crap, what the heck...

This is Blueberry. She's a 3 year old blue Plymouth. She's acting okay, I watched her preening herself and she was alert and curious. I just noticed it so I haven't been able to check her eating/ drinking or her poop, but her behavior seems unbothered. She could have had it for a couple days...

Very poorly. I'm pretty certain it's Merek's. She's been gradually getting worse. I've been making sure she's drinking something a few times a day, and trying to keep her comfortable. I should probably end it, but I always have that doubt of "maybe this will help" or that she might bounce...

She's slightly more than a year old. Her toes are straight and she can move them, but not much at all now. I noticed symptoms on Saturday, so almost 72 hours. No obvious injuries, nothing is swollen, and I haven't felt any masses or tumors. She's pooped a couple times, color is normal but...

I have a little bantam RR who's been off since Saturday. Lethargic, not really interested in food now, though she was eating some yesterday. I was concerned she might be egg bound so I soaked her several times in an warm Epsom salt bath, and lubed her vent. She pooped last night, and it...

I stoked by tractor supply to buy feed today and of course stopped by to watch the babies. I noticed once was being yanked around by the others, like they were trying to tear her apart by her toe. I asked if I could buy her separately (instead if there usual minimum of four) as I'm already at...

This is just me being curious if you think this will work. I introduced a pair of young bantam pullets (Aleggzandria Ocasio-Cortez and Kamalay Harris) to my flock several months ago. They were JUST starting to really be "part of the flock" instead of just being their own mini flock (my flock has...

Well, I was really hoping to get some info on what breeds they were mixed with, and as you said that even siblings of cross breads look different I thought that pointing out that these two look identical would bring up the idea that maybe somewhere I would be able to figure out what breed they...

Except that these two red/blue ones (again, there are TWO, a different one in each picture), are in all observable ways exactly alike?? I mean...exactly. As I said, I'm sure it looks like two pictures of the same chicken, but they each actually show a different chicken. But usually, as you...

They are about four months old. The ones I'm talking about are the two black and red ones. There are two of them, but they look almost identical. I know the white one and the blue one. These two pictures show two different red and black chickens. One was standing next to the rooster, one was...

I just got a hold of the lady I bought them from. She says she thinks they might be Jersey Giant/RIR mixes. No idea which is mom or dad. Does that sound right? And does that make it easier to figure out the sex?

I got these chickens as straight run chicks from another backyard chicken raiser. I was told that the black babies were Jersey Giant/Barred Rock mixes and the white one was a white Leghorn/buff Orpington mix. Two of them are definitely what I was told, but two of them are definitely NOT any of...