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    Eye Infection?

    Within the last couple of days I have noticed a couple of my animals (a chicken and my cat) are having trouble with one of their eyes. The eye is swollen. It's completely shut on the chicken and mostly shut on the cat. Both have a white mucus discharge coming from the eye. Upon cleaning the...
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    Help! Worms

    Well my hen is worse again this morning. She was doing so well yesterday that I let her run around for a bit outside. This morning the poor girl fell on her face while just trying to walk. She seems very unsteady on her feet. I have taken her water dish out since she almost falls in it every...
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    Help! Worms

    Thanks again. I'll continue to monitor my hen. She seems to be feeling a lot better. One other symptom that I find odd that she still has. It's hard to get her to drink without prompting her to. When she does drink, her throat area makes very loud airy noises as it goes down. Other than that...
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    Help! Worms

    Thank you for the advice! It was definitely a live, wriggling worm that came out of her. It matched the exact description of a gizzard worm, that's why I assumed that's what it was. I purchased some Ivermectin since it was readily available locally. (I live in a small town.) But I will look...
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    Help! Worms

    I have a bearded polish hen that started acting lethargic and rapidly losing weight. All the internet searches pointed to things like a stuck egg or impacted crop. I had given her warm baths, massaged her, and checked for issues with no luck. She drinks and eats when I help her, but not on her...
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    Missing Chickens?

    Well haven't had any more losses since we worked on the pen. Though I still see the hawk almost everyday. Once I saw a murder harassing him, maybe they'll run him off! My girls had to stay in the coop for a while, with only supervised time in the yard multiple times each day. Our coop has sheet...
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    Missing Chickens?

    It's a hawk! Just saw it fly out of my pen. Thankfully got all of the rest of my chickens locked up. Once I get the netting up that I bought they should be safe.
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    Missing Chickens?

    Well none of my adult chickens have had problems with this predator until now. This morning my last rooster was taken. There's sign this time though. A small trail of feathers leading around the coop, then a huge pile of feathers in one neat stack. It looks like whatever it was plucked nearly...
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    Missing Chickens?

    It's about a 10x20 run I would guess. 5ft tall metal mesh fencing. A raccoon climbed over the fence in the past, but we could immediately tell it had been there by the mess it made.
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    Missing Chickens?

    Hello everyone. New to the site. Wish it were under better circumstances. I've been trying for about two years now to raise Salmon Faverolles. I've always run into problems every single time. First it was a raccoon, then a bad batch of chicks from the hatchery, and now this. I had three 7+...
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