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    how could she have broken her neck???

    I'm sorry. I hope it all turns out but I know how hard it is trying to get them through. Hang in there.
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    Thank you! I hope this does the trick!
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    Thanks folks, I did feel guilty about not being able to cart her off to the vet... I wish I could at this point. But it is what it is-I have a lot of resources available, just not a vet that will look at her and give a diagnosis. I use the livestock vets and I've worked for the small animal...
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    There are no vets here that will see a chicken-I live in ranch country. The people on this board know more about chickens than any vet in a 50 mile radius of me. There is an avian specialist 80 miles away that I'm sure would see her but would charge me more than my truck payment to see her...
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    Botulism would ring a bell too-the neighbor's dog had it last winter and recovered slowly. Since the chickens free range I could see her digging up something that might have had it. We had a long very wet spring... I can nurse her through that.
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    HMMM gapeworm! We have tons of pheasants and wild birds around here. I'm off to take a closer look down her throat and do a swab. It really does seem like she has something wrong in her throat so that rings a bell with me. She has been shaking her head a lot, tilted.. but she doesn't have...
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    Hawk attack: broken leg

    I'm no expert, but I would stabilize it and wrap it snugly with vetwrap to act as a cast. I would expect a full recovery if you don't mind nursing her along for a few days. We had a turkey get caught and hung by a leg in the wire this spring-it really tore her leg up but we just wrapped it and...
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    Thank you, it's been a long haul with her. But she seems so much like she *could* get better that I hate to give up on her. I hope someone has an idea too. I did trim her beak just now too so that's not a factor.
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    Hen still sick-head tilting/odd behavior-video added

    This was my last post on this hen: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=558291 a week ago. Since that day when I did the ivermectin and started abx she improved remarkably, to the point of chasing a grasshopper in her pen. She was clucking and scratching and jumping out of...
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    weight loss, watery green poop, lethargy...what antibiotic to try?

    I'm far from an expert but I am force feeding a sick chicken now and I find she cooperates better if I lay her on her side and then sit her upright after I've put the food in her beak. She'll swallow it when I put her upright...
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    Weak, disoriented two year old hen; watery diarrhea, extremely thin

    thank you, yes we treated the whole house and cleaned it. It's a "duh" on my part, we've had company staying with us this whole time and I forgot it was time to redose her, lost track of time. I've been checking for lice and haven't found any more at all, on her or anyone else, so that's...
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    Weak, disoriented two year old hen; watery diarrhea, extremely thin

    Yep she was a great layer-I have a lot of chickens and don't keep close track but I would say it's been six or eight weeks since I noticed her pale head. She was still acting normally and I figured she was just coming off the spring moult. I should have wormed her sooner, I feel bad about...
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    Weak, disoriented two year old hen; watery diarrhea, extremely thin

    Yep I've got it right here, I'll dose her now. thank you! I hope I can get her around the corner again, it's a bummer to see her fall back apart!
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    Weak, disoriented two year old hen; watery diarrhea, extremely thin

    it's ivermectin-in the paste which is 1.87% and then I have the pour-on which is meant for cows... I usually have it in liquid form but just don't right now. I thought she was better before last night so I hadn't gotten anything the last time I went to town. I'm thinking of giving her more...
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    Weak, disoriented two year old hen; watery diarrhea, extremely thin

    I've been nursing a chicken along for a few weeks now and she's going back downhill. If anyone has any ideas that would be great! First problem I noticed with her was her head seemed to turn all yellow-she's a pure white chicken and her comb/skin/head turned very yellow, like liver failure...
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