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    very sick chicken

    Thanks for your reply, Barbara. I think she was around 4 but could have been a bit older; she was full-grown when we got her. She was always extremely healthy - she wasn't an inside chicken for health reasons. She actually decided on her own to live with us! We have a flock that free-ranges in...
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    very sick chicken

    She died in the night. She was such a special chicken, the sweetest personality. I have never seen anything come on so fast like this - from absolutely fine, to struggling for breath, to death within 12 hours. The vet said on the phone that it sounded like in addition to something respiratory...
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    very sick chicken

    Thanks Eggsessive, I did give her an injection of Tylan right away when I brought her inside at 6 pm. I am keeping her warm in a blanket on my lap. I'll let you know.
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    very sick chicken

    She was completely normal 5 hours ago. She is our special chicken that mostly lives in the house, but I put her out with the rest of the flock for a few hours every day. She was fine when I put her out this afternoon. But we did have a hen who was very sick a few days ago with respiratory...
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    very sick chicken

    I have been holding my sweet chicken Clementine for the last two hours, she is wheezing and very sick, sudden onset just in the last few hours. She has episodes of flailing her body, does this sound like she is dying?
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    Emergency! Hen struggling to breathe

    Old English Game bantam hen, very sudden onset, appears to be respiratory illness. She is wheezing/gasping with each breath, head and neck thrown back with beak open. Gave her injection of 1/4 cc Tylan 50 about an hour ago but did not get it all in (First time giving a shot). We had another...
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    how long can we hold out hope?

    Six eggs (Runner ducks) in incubator, one hatched yesterday afternoon. No signs of movement in other 5. Can we still hope for more hatching? What is the window after first one hatches? (We don't normally incubate; duck mom was taken off nest a few days ago by predator and we are trying to save...
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    Orphaned eggs hatching today! Need advice!

    Thanks for the help! We have one beautiful duckling, 12 hours old! But it looks like the other eggs are not going to hatch. I am hoping to find someone nearby with ducklings for sale, so this little one will not have to grow up alone. I only have the three adult males right now so this poor baby...
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    Orphaned eggs hatching today! Need advice!

    We lost our Indian Runner girl to a predator a few days ago. She had been sitting on a nest of eggs. When we discovered what happened, the eggs were cold but we put them in a homemade incubator. Today one is starting to hatch! My question is, how do I keep them from imprinting improperly? I...
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    Too late now, but just wondering

    Thanks, yes it is hard, especially when I know it's our fault for letting her be vulnerable. We are in suburban NH. Not rural, but near undeveloped land. We have raccoons, fox, possum, hawks, probably everything except bears.
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    Too late now, but just wondering

    ... what got our sweet Runner girl, sitting on her nest. One of our Runner ducks made a nest in the yard (we let them free-range in the day) under some brush. We decided to let her keep the nest and put a tarp around it. We live in the suburbs, rarely have a predator problem but chickens and...
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    Need Good Ol' Chicken Dog

    We have a lab who is great with our chickens and ducks. So gentle, interested but not not at all predatory, even with newly hatched chicks. However, in 8 years with numerous predator attacks, I don't think she has done anything to protect those chickens. She might bark at a cat in the yard and...
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    Why would a black duck start growing white feathers?

    Just curious if anyone has heard of this. Runner female, all black, at around age two started growing white patches. First just a few feathers, now lots of white. Has been happening for about a year.
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    Single duckling, 2 hours old, what to do?

    I have a Runner who has been sitting on a nest of eggs for about SIX weeks. She is skin and bones, and a nervous wreck. So I went out there today to finally take the eggs away so she can move on with her life. I could not believe it, one of the eggs was hatching! We decided to bring it inside...
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    Runner duck wanted to be a mom... any ideas on what went wrong?

    One of our Runner ducks went broody and we decided to let her sit on a clutch of eggs, let nature take its course and just see what might happen. In the past, our Runner girls have not been interested in sitting, but this one took it very seriously, barely leaving the nest and protecting the...
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