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    My hen became terribly sick. Any guesses on cause to prevent a repeat?

    I think I figured it out! In another thread, I found this: Ovarian Carcinoma: After finding this during necropsy and doing a little research, it was discovered that is the most common tumor of unknown origin in hens. It is associated with advancing age, which is why most vets are not exposed...
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    I am Going to get my chickens heathly again! lethargic, some diarrhea/ dirty vent area, she slept o

    I'm not sure how well it will work, given their other symptoms, but for the dirty vent, I found this link a while back: http://hencam.com/faq/Yuck-My-Chickens-Have-Messy-Bottoms/ However, my hen who had what I thought was vent gleet I treated via those instructions, but we a couple weeks later...
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    How to convince your husband to build you a chicken coop

    This thread makes me laugh! My tactic was a little less "sweet," I think: I bought fertilized eggs and started incubating them. That way I was able to say, "Alright. Three weeks until they hatch. Then three weeks until they're large enough to be kept outside. If they don't have a place to...
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    sick hen (end of the road for her?)

    I had a hen that had similar symptoms (except her comb and wattles never changed color). She got really bad, where she couldn't move her legs much anymore, so my husband and I also decided the right thing to do was put her down. When I necropsied her (poorly, unfortunately), her abdomen was...
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    My hen became terribly sick. Any guesses on cause to prevent a repeat?

    Thanks for the lead; Blackhead is definitely a possibility. I spent a really long time last night online trying to figure out what I was dealing with (and lamenting more and more that I hadn't spent more time looking at HER so I'd have more to go on). Similar to trying to self-diagnose my own...
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    Howdy from Texas

    I don't actually every say "Howdy." Even though I live in the city in Texas where EVERYONE else does. I had backyard chickens as a kid in an urban area, so now that we live in a smaller town, I couldn't wait to get my own flock. I started by hatching out 4 silkie chicks in a 1970s incubator...
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    My hen became terribly sick. Any guesses on cause to prevent a repeat?

    Hi! I am a long-time user, first time poster. :) I have a small backyard flock of 7 hens in Texas. The birds I currently have, I acquired all of them when they were older (but mostly as pullets). My Dominique hen, Rocky, suddenly start going downhill early last week. She was acquired as an...
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