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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    No human grade Vitamin D! Just the Poultry Cell, which definitely works, but again, the other vitamins are probably not needed. I'll have to give it a shot on the medical forum. Thanks for your input!
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    I have the flaked oyster shell from Scratch n' Peck and the girls LOVE that stuff. I have more issues with them eating the weird pebbly consistency 'oyster shell' than the flaked shells. For my soft shell layer, calcium was never an issue for her specifically -- she seems to have a hard time...
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    I've seen some fearmongering that Kalmbach feeds are nutritionally inadequate. I'm not sure if there's any truth to it but it definitely scared me, because I used to feed (and love) Kalmbach layer crumbles and one of my hens started having chronic soft-shells while on it. I'm deworming my flock...
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    I'm looking to switch to Nutrena All Flock from a layer feed because I have one hen who has stopped laying for a year, and I don't want to overburden her with the extra calcium. I'm also going to be adding chicks next year and figure switching over now won't hurt. However, my chickens are...
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    Is it time?

    So an update from over the weekend: Betsy drained a lot of fluid out of her vent. She was constantly greasy and dripping for two whole days, and I gave her a bath twice. Since her second bath her abdomen now feels normal, and she is no longer oozing fluid from her vent. Her droppings look more...
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    Is it time?

    ...drop yolks. If there is a vet that will implant a chicken around here I haven't found one, and even so, I think using the implant without surgery *now* would be too little too late. It's been a sad year for chicken keeping for me because I euthanized another one of my girls for bad tumors...
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    Is it time?

    I’ve been hyperfixating and spiraling a little and would like … I don’t know, some reassurance that I’m approaching this the right way ahead of our veterinary follow up on Monday evening. I have a 3.5 year old black australorp hen (named Betsy), sweet as can be. She is a true cuddle chicken...
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    Has anyone safely supplemented Vitamin D long term for a single laying hen? How have you done it?

    Hello everyone! I have been to a veterinarian with my hen, so we have a definitive conclusion about the cause of her 'issue.' Basically, our sweet Salmon Faverolles (two years old) has been having a bit of difficulty with egg laying. She would lay a lot of soft-shells, sometimes more than one...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    Thank you very much. We're doing better, it was a stressful month but we're coming out the other side. I appreciate the well wishes through this, and I hope the upcoming holiday season is a good one for you!
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    I thought I'd update on how my hen is doing! The Sulfa-Trim appears to be doing the trick. Within a day after starting, the bleeding in her stool started to taper off to discolored brownish-orange mucus, then completely disappeared by day 3. She is now behaving totally normally... and in an...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    Gosh, same. I'd like her system to rest and heal up while she's molting. She passed a larger clot with fresh blood overnight in the coop, but she behaved normally throughout the day. I'd love to see the bleeding stop with some time on the sulfa meds. She is definitely on the early side of a hard...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    Update: Got ahold of the vet! She had an elevated white blood cell count while on the amoxicillin, so we are going to try switching to a different antibiotic. My chicken is having good and bad days, she's up and down. She did start molting the day she refused food and water, and now she's back...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    @Seaslug totally happened with my Easter Egger last year. She acted like she was dying for a day then dropped all her feathers overnight. We'll watch her again tomorrow morning and see how she's doing, but it sure is a relief to see her eating and drinking again!
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    She keeps scaring us, then acting a bit stronger. I syringe-fed her some nutri-drench water and some coconut oil earlier, and she took a few bites of blueberries. Left her for two hours to rest, she got up and started drinking and eating on her own. She's dropping a lot of feathers, too. I'm...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    Still waiting for results. My hen was doing great for a couple of days, well enough that I put her outside with the other chickens, and then today she's back to her extremely lethargic behavior. She had a couple of blueberries, but otherwise isn't really eating or drinking. She had a few small...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    My vet was definitely confused by the amount of meds thrown at my girl. We reduced meds down to the amoxicillan only and he took bloodwork and a fecal sample. He said he'd like to re-do the x-ray if we need to, but wanted to save me a bit of money by seeing what the bloodwork and samples turn up...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    Thank you so much! She's still picking at food, when I called the hospital about it they obviously recommended a sooner follow up than my original tuesday appointment, but I plan on calling for same-day tomorrow morning right at opening (as advised by the vet assistant on the phone today). Right...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    She just passed this and looks a bit better after passing it. These are the bloody chunks I saw the day before she started acting lethargic. Still taking her in tomorrow!
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    She's acting more lethargic today and less interested in food. Still passing some poop, but little bits. We have a follow up vet visit for Tuesday and I was told to call early tomorrow for a same day visit, so I think that's the plan. I am concerned about the possibility of ovarian cancer but...
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    Suggestions for Lethargic Hen?

    Thank you! I hope she continues to trend better. We're monitoring her closely while she's on her meds.
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