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    Scaly leg mites? Mycoplasma synovae? UPDATE: frostbit feet

    I just updated the title. Thank you so much. I don't know that I would have ever thought of that given how our coop is set up, the temps leading up to me finding her, etc. I guess I'll see how she gets on and go from there. With basically no attention received she's done remarkably well all...
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    Scaly leg mites? Mycoplasma synovae? UPDATE: frostbit feet

    Really?! That's so bizarre. It was in the 50s and 60s up here in Vermont for the entire week leading up to when I found her. Does frostbite take that long to cause lameness?
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    Scaly leg mites? Mycoplasma synovae? UPDATE: frostbit feet

    8mo-ish old Easter Egger hen. Found her about 2 weeks ago laying down one morning outside. She was unwilling/unable to walk/stand up. I separated her from the group and took a look at her: no obvious injury, no obvious broken bones, no blood or wounds: her right leg looked a bit swollen around...
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    Well, unfortunately she ended up passing away early this morning. Based on the commotion, I'd guess she died from some kind of cardiac event as it came on suddenly and she went fast, so either a stroke or she had a heart attack. When we looked at her skin/those feathers, there was nothing...
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    Ugh, well - we had brought everyone in the heated garage during the polar vortex over the weekend and the hen seemed to be on the mend - eating well, drinking, etc. Everyone else is back out, she's still in so we could monitor her and I caught her resting like this. I've never seen posture...
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    Her poo from earlier today. She is not eating much or drinking much while inside right now.
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    And yes, she was from a local farm - I say commercial because they sell eggs but not a huge operation. They were thinning their flock because many birds weren't laying enough to meet production needs, which wasn't surprising given the state of health they came to us in.
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    Deformed with fenbendazole about 1mo ago, just one round. We actually had to treat the whole flock for winter mites at the beginning of January, so I can confirm that's not an issue. I'll see if I can get a photo of her manure and check out the calcium supplementation. She's started on Corid...
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    That's the thing, she's really not. She's mostly staying up on the perch lately, the other hens are far more active than she is. Haven't seen her eat or drink much since we brought her inside last night. Now that we've got her isolated we can see her manure isn't terribly well formed: greenish...
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    Yes, walks normally. She's been a bit more inactive lately since she stopped laying.
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    Young hen exhibiting "puffed up" appearance, no other symptoms

    Hello all - we have a young (I'm guessing 18mo to 2yrs old) Columbian Wyandotte hen we got from a commercial farm a few months ago. She came with three others hens, all were in pretty tough shape (they'd be cannibalizing each other's tails, were underweight, one had vent gleet, just obviously...
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