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    Sick chicken.... Newbie needs some help please

    Here are some pics Top of her head Some black spots on her chin. Could be dirt? Ignore the crusty looking build up around her beak, that's the pallets she was literally just eating that have gone soggy in the rain Bare belly with blotchy skin Leg with the darkened claw. This is pre...
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    Sick chicken.... Newbie needs some help please

    What is the easiest way to do a warm water soak? I'm thinking either I have to hold her somehow in the water, or I've got a cat cage I could possibly fill with warm water and put her in there, or am I way off track? How do I tell bumble foot? I looked at a link on here on another thread but...
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    Sick chicken.... Newbie needs some help please

    Thank you so much. I'll have to start right away on the legs, I've got Vaseline luckily. How do you know lice? It sounds a logical assumption. And how do I treat for that? I really am a real newbie at this. I've learnt a lot over the last year from this site, and was surprised to...
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    Sick chicken.... Newbie needs some help please

    Does anyone have any ideas of where to start? I really don't want to loose my first chicken.
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    Sick chicken.... Newbie needs some help please

    I think I've got a sick chicken. Some quick background, this chicken literally wandered into my backyard, in urban auckland a year ago and didn't leave. I don't know what type she is but I think maybe a brown shaver as she looks like some but not all photos of that breed, and I obviously have...
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