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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    I never lanced the bump, but she has been on antibiotics for 3 days and the bump has gotten smaller. This morning I will give more antibiotics and she is right now eating chick food as its smaller particles than my pellets. Although she was eating pellets with water added to them last night for...
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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    I do in the back of my head consider her suffering and am almost ready to let her go, but I do see some small improvment every day. If she has pnuemonia or a cold, I could understand the labored breathing as its hard to breathe with snot all over, right? It does take some time to get over it, at...
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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    Shadows: Snot in nostrils, lethargic, labored breathing, thirsty, algae green runny poop with white streaks. Appetite for bread not much else. Any one? Disease please? Help! I love her, she is my favorite one!
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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    update: so shadows the chicken is now my house guest. She is a good chicken. She drinks alot. is more interested in drinking than eating. She eats a little from time to time. The best thing I got her to eat has been watery chicken feed. She is on day 3 of added antibiotics. I did not lance her...
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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    Thank you guys! I will try the gatorade and keep the water going. I always feel like creatures are on the fast track for death whenever I isolate them. If you think of anything else, please let me know..Shadows is my kids and my favortite pet chicken and we would really hate to lose her..I will...
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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    This morning the same barred rock I put in isolation. She now has runny green poop, but hasn't left the chicken coop in days (so not from grass) It looks normal except for the runniness. She doesnt seem to be drinking alot, but is drinking and her diet is now egg yolk, oats, yogurt, probiotic...
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    SICK CHICKEN, Please help!!!!!

    Hi I have a sick chicken. She is a 2 yr old barred rock. SHe has a large feathered covered internal bump above her right eye, she occasionally vomits and looks like she is trying to swallow something, she has runny yellow poop. SHe is listless and doesnt leave the coop anymore. Tonight she isnt...
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    Proudest Roo Around Contest 8/9-8/23 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!!

    This is MR. Silver He is 5 months old. He hasn't found his crow yet, but he is a very proud rooster. He has 20 lady friends and he is a gentlman. I dont know what he is, if anyone has an idea, please let me know! Thanks!
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    WTB RUNNER DUCKS Nebraska/Iowa area

    Looking to buy runner ducks (Preferably hens)...NE and IA area..the younger the better so my kids can tame them They would be pets only..Thanks, and please let me know
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    Nebraskans Speak Up!!! NEBRASKA ROCKS!!

    So my favorite chicken of all time is the barred rock...she actually is so tame that she flies up to my shoulder and sits on my lap. They are supposed to be a very gentle breed, and excellent egg layers. I very rarly get chickens from others unless theyare young, b/c I have 3 small kids and I...
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    Nebraskans Speak Up!!! NEBRASKA ROCKS!!

    Hi there! I want to be added too! I live in Bellevue, NE. I have approx 30 chickens, 5 ducks. Many different varieties of chickens. Nice to meet you all!
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    Leghorns are gone

    Sorry the Leghorns are gone and can someone tell me how you delete these postings? Thanks!
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    Columbian Wyandotte Rooster 1+ year old free to good home

    I have a Columbian Wyandotte Rooster that is free to a good home Bellevue, Papillion area Nebraska. He is beautiful and from a hatchery. I just have to many roosters and thisone does not like to be "played" with by my three small kids [email protected] if interested or if you want pictures...
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    Slipped Achilles Tendon on Chick

    Thank you! Congrats on your new pets! I will take your advice...
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    Barred Rocks (mix?) - roos or hens? ** pics **

    I'm not sure how old your original post was, but I was always told that you can tell male from female BR b/c the female will have black on the front of her legs, which is why they are popular. I imagine if your post was old, they are crowing by now and you have your answer..but just in case not...
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