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    Hard distended abdomen with dirty vent feathers

    My hen 4 1/2 year old Road Island red Lola has a very large and very hard abdomen. When I palpated her abdomen she was very unbalanced, it didn’t feel like there was water. It felt more like a blown up foot ball that was almost about to pop. She had around a golf ball in her crop of mushy food...
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    Need help! Emergency

    I couldn’t of done it without this wonderful community!❤️
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    Need help! Emergency

    This little girl is a fighter. I have no idea how she pulled through. Her crop didn’t drain from Thursday morning until Monday morning. Only twice did she show signs of weakness. She kept eating the whole time. I have her a whole tube of womens anti fungal 2% and gave her 1 preloaded tube of 4%...
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    Need help! Emergency

    I have grit and I am checking it while it’s dark in the morning so they do not have access to food. I have never worked my chickens. And she usually will lay. I checked her and she doesn’t feel egg bound.
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    Need help! Emergency

    I have a 2 year old hen and she has sour crop. I’m treating her with womens anti fungal yeast infection cream but it’s not working. Her crop still feels like a huge balloon and it’s been that way since Thursday. I’ve given her more than I should because I figured it wasn’t enough. I almost think...
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    Big lump on leg help!

    I cannot right now I’m in high school. There is no scab, it’s not red it’s warm but not hot the bottom of her foot is swollen but again there no scab. It’s not bumble foot I just treated 4 other girls for it. I think it’s gout. Their feed has 3.7% calcium with some o top of that and 20% protein...
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    Big lump on leg help!

    This is my hen Missy she is a road island red 2 years old. She has this lump on her leg, and it showed up over night. It has stayed the same size for a few weeks but recently has grown a little. She is holding it up when she stands and she’s not running to me like normal. She is still eating and...
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    Need a treatment plan

    I want to thank you guys / gals again y’all have given me the confidence to do this. I hate seeing my animals in pain and I have had to learn the hard way as well with another bord of mine Annie, but her death taught me so much. I just hope I can cure Lola she means the world to me she’s such a...
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    Need a treatment plan

    I feel terrible that I didn’t notice this earlier. I am so close to my chickens stuff like this has never happened because I am always on top of things. I guess I’ll have to dig more tomorrow and soak it again. We just scraped as mush as we could off tonight but I didn’t know that puss was the...
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    Need a treatment plan

    what color is the pus? The stuff we left on there is more clear. We scrapped we didn’t cut because it was so hard in there. The clear layer separated the meat of her foot from the black. Once we scraped the black off there was hardly anything left to carve out.
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    Need a treatment plan

    We just cut all the black stuff out after soaking it. My mom said it looked and felt like a human callus on a foot. There was no liquid or pus it was all solid. We cut away dead tissue until we saw fat and meat and normal colored skin. We also wrapped it in Betadine.
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    Need a treatment plan

    This is Lola’s foot she’s 2 road island red. They free range all day and I noticed her foot this morning. She is NOT limping or holding it up, but she is running, eating, drinking, laying being herself. There has been no change from this morning look wise. My mom said it felt firmer but it has...
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    Please help so confused!

    No the only swelling she has is in the ankle a little and the side of her leg. That’s why I’m thinking injury because it’s only in that one spot, and her toes could be swelling because she keeps putting weight on it. She has a scab on the other foot in her back toe so my thoughts are if it was...
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    Please help so confused!

    She acts fine that’s why I’m baffled. No limp no nothing. But she is a jumper so I assume she jumped down from the 3ft roost cause they fight over them, and then hurt her foot because now she’ll use the “stair case” and she’ll step down but she doesn’t seem painful. I noticed the side of her leg...
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    Please help so confused!

    mine are pretty high and she is a jumper 3 1/2 feet - 4 feet high I have 4 levels ranging from 1 foot to 4. Can arthritis show up over night?
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