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    Aspiration Signs and Symptoms?

    THIS is exactly the information I have been trying to find!! I've been giving my chickens periodic liquids over the years and, as careful as I am, I inevitably miss sometimes. Breaks my heart when I do that and always freaks me out. For years I've been wondering exactly what was meant by "the...
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    Coccidiosis?

    I see your chicken passed away back in March. I just saw this and want to offer you my sympathies. One of my two passed away a couple of days ago from something that sounds similar to what you had. I'm still working on the other one and pray I can save her. It is so hard to lose a much...
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    Showing signs of Gapeworm

    BTW, they only gets scratch right before bed as a little end of day treat. During the entire day they get organic layer pellets (used to be a grain mixture but too much waste, so I switched to pellets) and fresh water. But about an hour before bed, I will give them the scratch and a few...
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    Showing signs of Gapeworm

    Thank you SO MUCH for this information!! The yeast infection occurred to me just recently. I haven't heard of the salt cleanse. I know when people get thrush, it helps tremendously to rinse with salt water or eat lemons with salt on them. So it makes sense that it would help them as well...
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    Showing signs of Gapeworm

    Hi, I had two chickens until yesterday. Now I have one and I'm beyond desperate to resolve this. My birds have been sick for two years now with respiratory issues. I have had the vet out on multiple occasions. I had suggested Gapeworm at one point and he said it wasn't (without testing, just...
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    Chicken just won't shut up!

    I thought of that. But a new vet saw her the other day and said she is most likely a Red Sex Link. I don't know. Guess we could just call her a mutt. :0) She is incredibly heavy! So definitely bred as a meat bird. The new vet said that this type are bred as large, heavy, and hearty to live...
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    Chicken just won't shut up!

    The bizarre sounds she makes are definitely her normal call. And the whistling sounds are on purpose, part of her call. She isn't sick. In fact, she's been to the vet a couple of times for different things and she's received a good bill of health. She just sounds like a very odd goose. :)
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    Chicken just won't shut up!

    I have had her since early summer 2021. We figured that's what she was doing at first, and she probably still is. Because once I find Sophie and shoo her (or carry her) over to where Nugget is, Nugget is quiet and contentedly goes back to foraging. So I'm pretty sure it's loneliness and the...
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    Chicken just won't shut up!

    I have a chicken that was given to me by friends that keep a large flock of chickens for eating. They don't know what breed she is and I haven't been unable to find out through research either. She is very large and very heavy. I'm going to attempt to attach a picture. She is orange with...
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    Washing poop into the dirt

    Whew! Thank you so much! I just didn't want to do something horribly bad for my girls when we thought it was good. That's a relief off of my mind!
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    Washing poop into the dirt

    My two chickens are free-ranging in our large backyard. When I first started keeping chickens, I would walk around twice a day with a pooper-scooper to clean up the poopers. It's amazing how much two chickens can produce! Move ahead a few years and my husband is now insisting on using the...
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    Not eating, extremely skinny, but has energy

    Thank you, coach723, for the information! Trixie was born in late February or early March 2019. I got her at about 4 weeks old I believe and that was March 30th. So 1 3/4 years. She's always laid absolutely ginormous eggs and I was reading how too much protein can cause that. So we had...
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    Not eating, extremely skinny, but has energy

    Thank you for the ideas humblehillsfarm! I was resorting to grabbing her in the morning off of the perch before letting them out. But that was a nightmare as well. The hardest one, though, was catching her prior to going to bed. Hopefully I won't ever have to do this again (in my own little...
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    Not eating, extremely skinny, but has energy

    The pain medication was Meloxicam .5ml dose 1x/day. The antibiotic was TMS 1.7ml dose 2x/day. Trixie was feeling much better yesterday. She is pecking at a cob of corn (although usually it's all gone by the time she's finished, this time there was a lot left). She's running (yes, running)...
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    Not eating, extremely skinny, but has energy

    Thank you for taking the time, Gallinarium, to answer! The vet had her on an antibiotic (pink liquid) for a week. It was extremely traumatic for Trixie (me catching her, holding her down, squirting nasty tasting liquid down her throat twice a day). So I think the infection has been taken care...
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