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    Need help...

    My first reaction seeing the photos was that they looked like multiple feather cysts. To find out, take a sterilized razor blade or an Xacto knife and make a tiny, shallow cut in the middle of one of them. If these are feather cysts, an ingrown feather will pop out, looking like a tiny curved...
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    Hen with Lash Eggs & Doughy Crop Not Improving

    I'm sorry, I can't deliver to you good news. You are lucky to have a vet that would see your chicken and prescribe meds, but while the vet recognized that she has a reproductive infection, they likely don't realize that once the lash material begins to show up in large amounts, the infection has...
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    Hen lethargic, loosing feathers, and not moving much

    This tells me she's likely dealing with an oviduct obstruction. It may be a shelless egg stuck in the shell gland or, worst case, a tumor in her oviduct. It doesn't bode well that this hasn't resolved yet. I'm going to advise you to run down to Walmart and get a bottle of this kind of calcium...
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    Hen lethargic, loosing feathers, and not moving much

    I do not advise anyone to poke around inside a hen's cloaca. If an egg is stuck there, you can feel it from the outside of the vent. But most of the time, the egg will get stuck farther up the oviduct where it cannot be felt. There is always a risk of shoving bacteria from poop residue up the...
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    Hen lethargic, loosing feathers, and not moving much

    We usually give the calcium in one dose. But it won't hurt to break up the doses. DE is not an insecticide. Use permethrin. Chickens do not usually have their forst adult molt until the fall of their second year. So, her distress is likely from the bugs on her and possible binding.
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    Hen lethargic, loosing feathers, and not moving much

    Egg binding is my guess. Tums is the right way to go, but half a tab won't get it. She needs at least one whole Tums or even two.
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    Negative test for coryza, MG/MS

    Are you flushing the eye at least once a day in addition to the Terramycin? You need to try to rinse away any accumulated pus or discharge. Treating the eye itself for a fungal infection is tricky. If you are sure there's a fungus in the eye, then Terramycin isn't advisable as it can work...
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    Constantly Broody Hen

    It's been years since I've had a broody hen. But when I did have my serial broody, I considered her extremely valuable. I could always predict to the exact day when she would go broody, and when I wanted to hatch eggs, it sure was convenient having such a hen. I also loved her sweet personality...
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    Not an "Emergency," but could sure use advice

    You can give the thiamine supplement in the week between Corid treatment, and then again after the second round of Corid. You do understand that two treatments a week apart is necessary to get all of the coccidia. If your chick is not responding to the Corid, you may give a drench dose. For a...
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    Bare Back Hen

    Your hen may be getting pecked as new pin feathers come in. Chickens are drawn to large patches of bare skin and then to the emerging pin feathers which are rich in delicious blood. They can become addicted. Disguising the bare skin with Blu-kote can help a lot. Blu-kote does have anti-fungal...
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    Sick … :( maybe wry??????

    We often forget that calcium absorption can be enhanced with exposure to direct sunlight or a vitamin D supplement. Therefore, rather than increasing the calcium we give our hens, we could try increasing the vitamin D. This is especially applicable in winter. If you are feeding a commercial...
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    Sick … :( maybe wry??????

    Calcium in the form of oyster shell or limestone is best since the hen can self regulate the consumption. Mixing calcium into the feed other than what the commercial feed company put in it isn't advisable. In a crisis, we use human calcium supplements to drench the hen's system to give her a...
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    Severe balance problems in 8 week cockerel

    Yes! Use the soft gel caps.
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    Chicken Attacked By Wild Cat

    You won't know if she can recover until you try. But assume that a ton of bacteria has entered that deep wound. Pull off the bandage and flush the wound liberally with saline wash. You can make your own from recipes on the internet. Then you must give her an antibiotic. If you have any on hand...
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    1.5 year old hen with sudden onset ataxia

    A vitamin deficiency can occur suddenly and without obvious causes, especially vitamin E. Vitamin B deficiency can also cause neurological symptoms, but usually it causes weakness in tendons and muscles. Why does it happen? Sometimes, it's from foods and treats that can dilute the vitamins in...
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    1.5 year old hen with sudden onset ataxia

    This behavior is very alarming. About the only somewhat benign explanation for it is vitamin E or B deficiency. If it's an E deficiency, giving a vitamin E capsule to her can solve this within hours. Treating her with B-complex can take up to six to eight weeks for improvement, but is worth...
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    questions

    It's a "cultural" ritual chickens have. They are flock animals who are tightly associated with the flock dynamics. Back a few million years when chickens were wild and not domesticated, they had to be very careful making a living because predators were a constant danger. So when a hen needed to...
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    Egg laying issue - water balloon-esque egg

    You left out two of the most important bits of information - your location and the age of this hen. If your location is in the northern hemisphere and if your hen is aged two years or older, she may be starting molt. Molt can affect the quality of the egg shells regardless of the calcium...
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    Easter egger questions

    I've only ever had EE chicks from a hatchery. (Privett in New Mexico) To get the kind of variety pictured above, I think you'd need to go through a private breeder or be a breeder yourself. I always have wanted a splash EE and tried to select chicks from the feed store offering that were...
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    How do all of you deal with future laws banning the ownership of chickens?

    That would be a tragedy. While I don't need to worry about that possibility since I'm zoned for agriculture, I would bribe the neighbors with free eggs to keep my flock secret.
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