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    Antibiotics for Salpingitis

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    Antibiotics for Salpingitis

    Hello. My hen has been ill for a week and a half. I suspect it's salpigitis and possibly a little egg yolk peritonitis. She is lethargic, droopy, but still willing to eat and drink, albeit at a lesser rate. Her abdomen is large and squishy like a water balloon, and I have seen what seems to be...
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    Sick Chicken!

    Her crop feels normal in the mornings; mostly flat and not bulgy. These last few days she started to poop these poops. They look like they no longer contain egg material and only uric acid surrounded by liquid.
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    Sick Chicken!

    Hello, Thank you for your care. Her crop feels slightly rounded but not fat and bulgy. She has no breath odor or vomiting/discharge. She is drinking a little of the electrolyte/vitamin/probiotic water. I was feeding the whole flock chick feed because I had chicks, but I had switched back to...
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    Sick Chicken!

    Hello! My 1.5 year old Rhode Island Red has been, for two days, acting sick. Usually super active and energetic, she now stands or sits by herself with a droopy comb and tail. I have isolated her from the rest of the flock. These few months I've had chicks with the flock and withheld calcium...
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    Sick Chicken!

    My 1 year old Rhode Island Red has been lethargic and unwilling to eat. Her comb and tail are droopy and she stands around today. Today, I found that this came out of her vent. Could someone help identify whether it is diarrhea or egg matter, and what sickness is could be?
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    Moved broody hen won't stay?

    Hello, It's my first time hatching with a broody hen. She is a buff orpington and is always broody. This year, I gave her four fertile eggs to hatch, but she always sits in the top portion of the coop, where the eggs are laid, 2-3 feet off the ground. I'm worried that the chicks will fall if...
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    Broody hens

    Hi. I have two 7-month old hens (one just recently died) and both of them have gone broody. There is no rooster, so they are not fertile. This is my first time handling broody hens, and it is getting close to the end of the 21 day period. I tried every day to get them outside and lock them out...
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    Chickens bullying others

    I have two 7-month old hens, but the slightly smaller of the two is bullying the bigger. She is always chasing her, pecking her, and pulling her feathers, etc... I just lost a hen two days ago to unknown causes (she just randomly died). Perhaps the bullying is related to reestablishing the...
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    Chicken just died

    Hello, my 7-month-old hen suddenly died :( for no apparent reason. The days prior, she was out in the yard alone scratching and foraging because my two other hens (same age) were both broody. When I came home at around 4 pm, she was dead in the coop. I found no wounds and no sign of predator...
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    Chickens not laying

    Hi. My three buff Orpington hens are 24 weeks old and one of them laid their first egg one week ago. She laid another the following day, but hasn't laid a single egg since then. It has been seven days now, and I'm getting worried. It is my first time with chickens. Perhaps it's because of diet...
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    Chickens close to laying

    Hello. My three buff Orpingtons just passed 20 wks old. This is my first time raising chickens and I want to be prepared. Is there anything I should know about nesting boxes, foods, or behaviors that may not be in the books? Thank you!
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    Chickens won't roost

    Hello. For many weeks now, i have tried to get my fifteen week old pullets to roost in their coop. Every night I find them in the nesting box (they haven't started laying yet) laying together. I always manually move them onto the roost, however when I check on them an hour later, they're back in...
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    Nesting box

    Hi. I have three 15 week old pullets. They are soon going to lay eggs and i need to prep the nesting box. What material should I use for it? Pine shavings? Straw? Should I also put curtains in there for privacy? Thank you.
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    Pullets won't roost

    Hello chicken community, I have three nine-week old pullets in the Bay Area in CA, living in a coop. Ever since I moved them outside four weeks ago, they haven't gotten the hang of sleeping on the roost. Every night when I lock up the coop, all three of them are sleeping in the nesting box. I...
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