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    Sometimes it takes a lot of calcium citrate to help an old hen build an egg shell

    You don't mention where you live. If, for example, you live in Panama or Brazil, it would be hot for much of the year. Heat stress can cause these shell issues. Other forms of stress can also. If you live on a busy street or have a noxious dog barking next door, this can affect egg quality. I'm...
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    Sometimes it takes a lot of calcium citrate to help an old hen build an egg shell

    No, ovulating twice in a 25 hour cycle is not normal nor healthy. Let me clarify the length of time I usually give one hen the calcium citrate supplement. It's normally for a few days to two weeks max. My hen Ethel was heading for an egg binding crisis. That's why I kept pumping the calcium into...
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    Sick chicks

    Give the chicks a little extra sugar in their water for a quick glucose boost. What is your water source? Sometimes when you get sick baby chicks, it can be from untreated well water or from ground water contaminated by fracking in the area. I suggest switching to bottled water for the next...
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    Sick chicks

    It could be coccidiosis. Do you have Corid on hand? If so start them on it. You really have not provided any information other than your chicks are sick, so this isn't a diagnosis. The incubation period for coccidiosis is around seven days, so if the chicks have been with the broody for seven...
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    Hen not putting weight on leg

    You may give the whole tablet. Any excess vitamin will be eliminated in the urates. Don't expect improvement for several weeks.
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    How much fermented feed per bird?

    Don't get hung up on measurements. Just pour dry feed into a five gallon bucket and cover it with warm water. Add a splash of ACV to start it off. This initial ferment takes about 36 to 48 hours. Then you feed one cup per chicken per day. Some chickens eat more, some less. It's not high math...
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    Hen not putting weight on leg

    Two things come to my mind that can cause this type of lameness. One is a riboflavin deficiency and the other is lymphoid leucosis, a virus similar to Marek's. The first can be treated with vitamin B complex for about six weeks. The other has no treatment and will kill the chicken. Another rare...
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    3-4 week old duck just ate an earbud tip... smh

    Since ear bud covers are rounded and made out of an inert substance, it should pass through the duck safely without any action on your part. However, if you're uneasy just letting nature take its course, the best thing to lubricate the digestive tract is raw egg white. Just give it to the duck...
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    Sick hen and death

    The only way to get a postmortem would be to send a dead chicken to a state lab for a necropsy. We can only take wild guesses. Were these two hens that died spontaneously commercial breeds? Sex links are bred for prolific egg laying. They spend two years shooting out tons of eggs, and then...
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    3-4 week old duck just ate an earbud tip... smh

    Give it 24 hours, and you'll find it in the poop. It will likely turn up undamaged. But kind of filthy.
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    Rooster with a Rose “comb over”

    It depends on why you keep a flock. Is the primary reason to show the chickens? Or is it for eggs or the entertainment factor? If you aren't showing your chickens, if you aren't breeding to sell perfect chickens, then cosmetic considerations would not be an important factor, but good...
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    Chicken with large crop

    This thread of mine has a pattern for a very nice crop bra. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/making-a-crop-bra-for-a-hen-with-pendulous-crop.1464848/
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    Duckling has swollen feet webbings

    Yes, you may go ahead and drain the blisters. Use a sterilized needle and insert it at the base of each blister. Or you can use a needle syringe to withdraw the fluid. Disinfect the feet after the procedure. But something must be causing this edema. There is a virus called Micoplasma synoviae...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    That's the purpose of this thread. These tumors are pretty common, but a lot of people will be experiencing it for the first time. Hopefully they will get an idea of how it will progress. I also want to reduce the amount of fear this discovery can unleash. This should show that it's not an...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Tootsie has made it clear that he hates his sleep guard. As soon as I leave him, he gets out of it. And he also hates the cushion I put in there so he wouldn't have to sleep in the sand on the floor which, it turns out, is his preference. He won't listen to reason, mainly that it will be too...
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    Swollen Vent 7 week old Silkie chick

    The tissue is very fragile so cleaning poop off it can result in swelling. Smooth some cortisone cream on it for a few days to bring the swelling down. If this chick continues to complain by chirping constantly, it may be constipated. This can happen during pasty butt when a plug forms inside...
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    WWYD: Small bird with neurological problems is becoming the punching bag of the flock.

    First of all, and this is a rule for all chicken keepers, adding more chickens to a flock with bullying issues is not ever the way to solve it. It will only compound the problems. Starting with Flora, you have a hen with sensory overload issues. She has too much stimulation and her brain isn't...
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    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Poor Tootsie wasn't able to keep from falling off his perch after he went to sleep. I would find him on the floor even though the fall was off a perch less than a foot high. Conveniently, I had designed a sleep guard back when my fourteen-year old hen Lady Di had this problem. Her perch was the...
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    Very Sick Chicken

    Your location in the world will determine if you can get an antibiotic without a vet's prescription. Any leftover people prescriptions may work. In the US you may need a prescription for most antibiotics.
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    Very Sick Chicken

    Over consumption of water, unless it's due to being a hot day, is often a sign of crop or gizzard impaction. I do not recommend withholding water and food. Drinking water is a reflex to flush their system to move the impacted material. You can encourage the chicken to eat grit and also give...
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