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    Anaphylactic shock? Just gave injection!

    Update: from husband We'd been treating her after having an avian vet professor from Cornell look at her last week for suspected egg peritonitis, due to sick crop, due to a bad order of feed with some corn that wasn't crushed (causing crop and gizzard impactions in some of our birds - she was...
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    Anaphylactic shock? Just gave injection!

    she has passed on, she went unconscious within a min-two and died within 3-4 mins. We have Benedryl, but no way to get it in. No air sac leak, thx for suggesting we check. My husband is guessing she was just so weak the needle was too much for her OR she had a sensitivity to the drug. He's...
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    Anaphylactic shock? Just gave injection!

    My husband just administered .25cc Penicillin to a sick chicken in the breast (slightly to the side of the breast bone). He put it in about 1/2 cm, pulled out to ck for blood, clear, injected. She almost immediately went into shock...probably she will be gone soon, but answers for others/next...
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    UPDATE: Solution found. 2nd Chicken Affected! HELP! Impacted Crop mystery?

    Okay, the vet is done and we have answers: 1) Chicken 1 who died 3 days ago (we figured this was unrelated) - impacted gizzard - ate 3 decorative bead gems from the ground (past-owners left them strewn all over the back yard) and we thought we'd gotten them all :( 2) Chicken 2: Silver-Laced...
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    UPDATE: Solution found. 2nd Chicken Affected! HELP! Impacted Crop mystery?

    The vet examined the live (ill) chicken and she has said her body cavity is filled with yellow stuff...we had a chicken die of this a few years ago (isolated case). Can someone remind me of what it's called? It looks like yolks? Thanks! She is opening up the other dead chicken now to see if the...
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    UPDATE: Solution found. 2nd Chicken Affected! HELP! Impacted Crop mystery?

    UPDATE: the second chicken we found is now dead. The first seems to be doing better, but we're still worried. Vet is on her way :(
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    Sick all of a sudden

    Well, aren't you a ray of sunshine :P
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    UPDATE: Solution found. 2nd Chicken Affected! HELP! Impacted Crop mystery?

    I have looked over all common illnesses and NOTHING fits :( We are thinking maybe their food is deficient and this is just a nutrient deficiency. Other possibility is a parasite or bug of some type. I'm dosing them with nutri-drench in water (heavy concentration) and going into town for some...
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    Sick all of a sudden

    I'm not sure if you edited this or what but I could have sworn you said she was opening her beak and pointing it up like yawning, if so: Gapes is a disease caused by a parasitic roundworm which is about 5/16ths of an inch long and looks like a fine thread. These pests lodge in the hen's throat...
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    UPDATE: Solution found. 2nd Chicken Affected! HELP! Impacted Crop mystery?

    Okay, we now have 2 hens with this exact condition. What could be slowing digestion and causing these symptoms? We are calling the vet and trying to get them in asap before we lose the whole flock :( Almost a year old silver-laced Wyandotte hen. Three days ago my husband found her lethargic in...
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    Hen Wheezing hard! Video link - help!

    Does anyone have any ideas? We're at a loss...want to save her but no idea what's wrong. EDIT/UPDATE: Class is over and I had time to research more: It seems to be that some chickens (and it tends to be EE more often than not oddly enough) are just more susceptible to the heat and they will...
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    Hen Wheezing hard! Video link - help!

    Just discovered our easter eggers wheezing hard, kinda out of nowhere, was fine this morning. She was laying down under the coop and acting strange. Still eating and running around with the others mostly. She's about 5 months old. What is it?! How do we treat it? I'm sorry I don't have time to...
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    Swollen Vent/Cloaca, dead tissue, infection?: Vent Gleet?

    Nevermind...I see here that Vent Gleet does cause ulceration (edit - and the smell is optional!), so this is certainly what she has. I hope she's not too far gone to save her :( https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt btw, the local Agway, indeed, did NOT...
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    Swollen Vent/Cloaca, dead tissue, infection?: Vent Gleet?

    She just laid an egg last night. It took us 7 hrs to get it out of her. She tore a bit, but not as bad as last time. We had her in Epsom Salts water and were lubing her up. Here's what we discovered through all this...She has MASSIVE scarring inside. The tissue in the vent that the egg has to...
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    Swollen Vent/Cloaca, dead tissue, infection?: Vent Gleet?

    Right, I didn't want to treat it like Vent Gleet if it wasn't...are you saying that it sounds like it? We could try it out and see if there's a marked improvement... *edit* Well, our local Agway has some Nu-Stock so we will get it and treat her and see what that does. We'll stop the...
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