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    4-year Old Blue Plymouth Hen depressed/low energy, changed color????

    Here are some pictures of her and her feces- they've almost all looked the same as far a I can tell. Very watery white with small pieces of solids. As you can see her face is normal, she's alert but droopy. I've been letting her out during the day to get exercise and graze because she's isn't...
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    4-year Old Blue Plymouth Hen depressed/low energy, changed color????

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    4-year Old Blue Plymouth Hen depressed/low energy, changed color????

    When it's full it feels pretty normal. Squishy but firm. Not hard but not mushy
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    4-year Old Blue Plymouth Hen depressed/low energy, changed color????

    Hi, everyone! To start this, I have Mereck's in my flock. From my reading this makes them a little more likely to succumb to other diseases, since it never really goes away. Since the confirming necropsy, all new chicks have come vaccinated, but this hen isn't. Their regular yard is about ten...
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    Hen has a weird bulge on her face, just noticed today

    Oh also sure is now in quarantine so I can monitor her better, I'll keep updating
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    Hen has a weird bulge on her face, just noticed today

    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.
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    Hen has a weird bulge on her face, just noticed today

    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...
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    Hen has a weird bulge on her face, just noticed today

    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...
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    Bantam RR hen very lethargic, unbalanced

    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...
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    Bantam RR hen very lethargic, unbalanced

    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...
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    Bantam RR hen very lethargic, unbalanced

    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...
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    Baby chick with a badly injured toe

    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...
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    Introducing young birds to a lonely hen in an established flock

    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...
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    My chickens are nearly grown and I still don't know what gender or breed they are. Help!

    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...
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    My chickens are nearly grown and I still don't know what gender or breed they are. Help!

    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...
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