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    What's in your Poultry First Aid Kit?

    I, too, would like to know what the expert chicken parents keep in their first aid kit. I am a new new parent and would like to make sure I have a good setup on hand.
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    EMERGENCY: 5 month old hen is lethargic, warm, calm! PLEASE HELP!

    Oh Baton Rouge, I am so sorry, hun. *hugs* My girl is still the same. Before we left this morning: I gave her several syringes of honey water and half a turkey baster full of yogurt/honey/feed (dissolved in hot water). I put her in a big dog crate in the kitchen with a bowl of honey water and...
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    EMERGENCY: 5 month old hen is lethargic, warm, calm! PLEASE HELP!

    I was thinking some yogurt with honey and ground feed?
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    EMERGENCY: 5 month old hen is lethargic, warm, calm! PLEASE HELP!

    Ok, I just gave her about 5 cc of water. I opened her beak and put a few drops in the bottom of her mouth and she would swallow. I can't believe she put up no fuss when I opened her beak with my finger.
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    EMERGENCY: 5 month old hen is lethargic, warm, calm! PLEASE HELP!

    She will not eat or drink right now (but was last night). We tried offering her some of the minced beans that I had for them this morning and she wasn't even interested.
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    EMERGENCY: 5 month old hen is lethargic, warm, calm! PLEASE HELP!

    Also, her wattle is normal color. Her comb looks a little light, but it could also just be that it is dry. There is no yellow except it seems that the her eyelids are a little yellow. Her skin under the feathers is a very light peach rose color.
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    EMERGENCY: 5 month old hen is lethargic, warm, calm! PLEASE HELP!

    This is my first flock. I have 4 hens and 1 duck (that we just discovered is a drake not a hen). They are almost 5 months old. They all sleep in their coop at night and have free run of the fenced backyard when we are home. We live right on a river, so the yard is more "forest" than grass. My...
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