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    Help! My 4 wk old chick is wheezing and sneezing.

    wheezing and sneezing sounds like respiratory disease, try put Duramycin in the water. You may want to add some vitamin boost to their water to help them aquire some energy faster. I found these products at TractorSupply. You can also use baby vitamin, polyvisol (no iron), can be found at most...
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    Sick Chicken: Stumbles like a drunken sailer

    did you do a follow up dewormer 2 weeks later? Dewormer usually gets adult worms but not the larve. Another treatment at 2 weeks later (when larve mature to adult worms) can be sure there is no worms. And don't eat eggs from the treated birds about 10days after treatment.
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    I am new to this but need help and fast please. chickens dying.

    coccidiosis will cause bloody poop. have you check that? someone forwarded me this page from University of Florida extention service, it had very nice description of poultry diseases: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
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    Help I Don't Know Whats Happening !!!!!

    I don't know if this would help. I purchased 6 chicks from a local chicken farm some times ago, 2 silkies, 2EE, 1 Barred rock, and 1 polish. 2 Silkies were fine the first couple weeks, but then, at 3 weeks old, they suddenly became droggy and died 1 or 2 days later, then the polish had similar...
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    help, twisted neck with head down, very sick

    Thank you all for your input!! My husband is about to cull her... I am so glad that I found this site first. I started wet mash food this morning and also hand feed high vitamin water two times today. I think she is getting better-- she can straight up her neck for 15minutes and pooped...
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    help, twisted neck with head down, very sick

    Thanks Karen. I searched Wry neck and found several video on youtube about wry neck chickens. The symptons look the same, with neck bending sideways or twisting down and walking backward. I think my hen is having wry neck. So, then I serached wry neck on this site and found many other people...
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    help, twisted neck with head down, very sick

    Hello all, I am new to this site and new as chicken mom. I have a 12 weeks old Arancana hen bought at a local chicken farm (when she was a baby). she is not eating, not drinking by her self, no poo for past 3 days. her neck is twisted with her head down and shake all the time. she can somtimes...
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    5-month old BO pullet has trouble lifting head up, pls help!

    Hello, I just read something like this last night, I forget the which post... search this site... But this sympton is called "dropping wing" and is maybe cuased by "Botulism". She may ate some toxin containing food/mold/bugs... I read that one member said, feed (maybe with syange or baby drop)...
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