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    Thought she had a broken leg

    In the begging I thought my hen had a broken leg, she was walking on one but the other one wasn't working so she would have sit down on her elbows when she ate, this has been going on for about 3 weeks now, shes around 26 to 28 wks old, she eats and drinks but now doesn't seem to have hardly any...
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    My hen may have a broken leg

    In the beginning I thought maybe she had pulled her leg out of socket because there didn't appear to be any breaks anywhere, she was unable to put hardly any pressure on it, but she was still able to stand and now a couple weeks later she is only moving around on her elbows so I don't know if it...
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    My hen may have a broken leg

    When I came home today and went out to gather the eggs and noticed one of my brown leghorns lying in the corner of the run, when she got up I noticed she was limping, she walks on the hurt leg but it is kind of turned in, I don't know if its broken or maybe out of socket, is there anything I can...
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    Sour Crop, unable to make her throw up

    One of my black austrolorps has what I believe is sour crop, swelled, soft and squishy, I have fallowed the instruction on trying to get her regurgitate but have not been successful, I believe shes been this way for quite some time, not realy sure what I need to do. I think I massaged her to...
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    I am so happy that my chickens are better, this afternoon I didn't hear any sounds from them other that the normal chicken sounds. I gave them the last dose of Baytril in there water tonight, they drank a gallon of it today, so I'm truly hoping that will be that with breathing problem for now...
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    The medicine was Baytril, I went out this morning before coming to work and changed there water, I'm putting 5cc to a gal and didn't hear any labored breathing and didn't see any deceased chickens so hopefully its a good sign.
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    I talked to a vet today, he said he wasn't an expert on chickens although his son has 200, he said he didn't think my chickens had a viral infection but instead a bacterial one, he gave a liquid that I dropped in each ones mouth and put some in there drinking water, he seemed to think that if it...
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    My young chicken died last night and I went out to the coop this morning before I left for work and I can hear another one having a hard time breathing, sounds like fluid in the lungs, I'm wondering if they are taking pneumonia? I'm really afraid I'm going to lose all 20 of them, I guess I'll...
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    Thank you, yours is the only reply I've received.
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    The chicken that I put in a cage by herself is much worse, she just stands there with her eyes closed, shes not eating or drinking, her poop was runny and yellow so I feel like she will not make it until morning, I gave her some tetrecycline water in an eye droper, just a few drops but later I...
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    Chicken making a smack sound

    I'm new at raising chickens and I bought 17 black austrolorps that were suppost to 5 months old, but I know they had to be different ages, some were full feathered and some smaller with chic looking fuzz. I noticed bringing them home I could here some of them making a smack sound along with the...
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    New to raising chickens, some are having a throat probem

    I'm new at raising chickens and I bought 17 black austrolorps that were suppost to 5 months old, but I know they had to be different ages, some were full feathered and some smaller with chic looking fuzz. I noticed bringing them home I could here some of them making a smack sound along with the...
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