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    Stubborn broody hen is shaking

    The crate came like that. The solid "cap" you see on top of the crate in this photo actually is designed to be inserted in a space below the mesh floor to catch the poop. This tray is removed from the floor of the crate so that air can freely circulate under the open mesh bottom. I got this...
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    Chicken gasping even after 48h on antibiotics. Help?

    The antibiotics only treat the secondary infection caused by the virus. The virus is carried by each member of the flock in their cells as it's so contagious that any new chicken will immediately be exposed and infected. So, all chickens in this flock will have already been exposed and isolating...
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    Chicken gasping even after 48h on antibiotics. Help?

    Respiratory viruses, once in a flock, never leave. Stress, from possible external parasites for example, can trigger the respiratory virus and the chickens in the flock will begin showing symptoms again. These symptoms are usually treated with an antibiotic such as what the vet prescribed for...
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    Have recently added a 4 month old Drake to a dock of 3 10 month old girls and it's disastrous so far- what do we do?

    At just four months, like a fourteen year old boy, he's all hormones and no sense. I admit to not being an expert on ducks, but sexual precociousness happens with cockerels as well. It does become necessary to keep the immature bird separate from the girls until he grows into his hormones. Have...
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    Hen with Lash Eggs & Doughy Crop Not Improving

    Any probiotics will work. I use the tablets you can buy in the digestive aids in the pharmacy section of the store. I just pop a tablet into the beak each day.
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    Chicken eats rat poop, any treatment needed? what to do now?

    Two weeks.
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    Chicken eats rat poop, any treatment needed? what to do now?

    Your chicken has indiscriminate tastes. You need to have a talk with her. While rat turds are rich in various kinds of bacteria and viruses, the tiny amount the hen ingested likely will not be enough to make her sick. But that does depend on her having a healthy immune system. You should keep...
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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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