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    Help! Can chickens die from poultry lice!!!!!

    Here’s my arsenal for mites that has worked very well: Pyrethrin spray. I prefer pyrethrin vs permethrin because pyrethrin, a natural insecticide, is less harmful and doesn’t last as long in the environment if you worry about toxic effects (see...
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    adult with splayed legs

    My hen died early this morning. She seemed to be doing surprisingly better the last couple of days. She even ate and drank a little on her own yesterday. I think the aspirin did help her feel better. But she had her eyes half-closed more often than not, whereas most of her illness they were...
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    adult with splayed legs

    My hen's not doing well. I stopped forcing food into her yesterday when I noticed her crop wasn't emptying anymore. I've started giving her aspirin--40mg every 5 hours or so, with a little watered down milk from an eye dropper to wash it down. Probably overdosing her, but I figure I'm losing...
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    Help...wild pigeon with injured wing!

    The kennel would be better--more restricted space. You could also cover it more easily to keep him calmer. Could you throw a towel over him to catch him? Be sure the blood's not from bone poking through. When I worked at the vet school wildlife ward, that was a death sentence, as bones could...
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    adult with splayed legs

    Thanks for your reply. Please do let me know if you come up with anything else. The cat food is just to bulk her up, only started after she fell ill and became thin. Thanks.
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    adult with splayed legs

    No slipped tendons. Her right leg especially now has little movement, though she can tense it up occasionally. Her appetite's decreased today. I forced some scrambled eggs into her. She's alert though, with bright eyes. Could it be Marek's in a 1 1/2 year old hen? I found out she was never...
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    Emergency--Injured hen--Please help!

    If the pill tastes bitter and she won't eat it, to pill a bird, grab the upper beak with the left hand, gently pry open lower beak with middle finger of right hand, push pill in with index finger diagonally from your right to bird's right. In birds, the trachea and esophagus are next to each...
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    adult with splayed legs

    Does anyone know what this is?: New Year's Day, my 1 1/2 year old Silkie hen was found sitting way back with left leg forward and out. (I noticed her sitting not quite right the day before, but when I disturbed her, she got up and walked away just fine. She is a very broody bird, so sitting is...
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