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    Extremely Skinny Hen

    About 6 months ago, I rescued a Buff Orpington hen. She was very skinny at that time, which attributed to mistreatment, but she is still skin-and-bones. She has no fat or even flesh of any sort on her body, and she must only weigh 3 pounds. She is also molting a lot, laying every day at the same...
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    Sour crop help?

    Thank you very much, I didn't know the treatment was that long. Still unclear on how I should feed her - just yogurt for now by putting it in her mouth?
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    Sour crop help?

    A day and a half ago I noticed one of my hens was very lethargic, and quickly figured out that it was sour crop. Since, I have given her apple cider vinegar, tried to feed her yogurt, and given her a small dose of yeast infection cream (clotrimazole). I've also massaged her crop, and when all...
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    (urgent) Fluid-filled throat, bloated, lethargic

    A couple of months ago, I had a hen with what I thought was egg yolk peritonitis. She was very lethargic, bloated, thin, and had egg-like fluid dripping from her vent. She did a strange back-and-forth movement with her neck, as if to clear her throat, and she had a lot of mucus in her...
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    Bloated hen

    Thank you very much! Her droppings seem normal, and the swollen part started out very hard but is now soft. There has still been no change in her condition. She is three years old
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    Bloated hen

    About five days ago, I discovered one of my hens walking strangely. Her backside seemed bloated and swollen, and she was waddling with her feet turned in. Her posture was like that when laying an egg or pooping. Initially, I was afraid she was egg bound, and caught her to try to treat this...
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    Egg yolk peritonitis!?

    Yeah, the plain water thing makes sense. She hasn't drunk either plain water or the herb water yet, I let her go outside for the evening and night for hopes she'd eat and drink in a more usual environment for her, but to no avail. I didn't know that penicillin had to be injected, I don't think...
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    Egg yolk peritonitis!?

    I don't have much time to write this, but I'm pretty sure one of my hens has egg yolk peritonitis. She has most of the symptoms and a history with laying strange eggs. She's still very alert but lethargic, can still walk but doesn't have much of an appetite. She seems sort of fluid-filled when I...
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    Lethargy and white liquid from vent

    I was thinking about maybe washing her off a little, even though I don't think she'll enjoy that very much. It only get about 60-70 degrees here, so I'm not too worried, but it definitely would be a good idea. Most of the time she lays fine eggs. This sort of thing only happens every six...
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    Lethargy and white liquid from vent

    She's doing this better this morning, she's now walking around and acting almost normally though she still seems a little lethargic. Her hips seem, just from picking her up, as though they are wider apart, but not swollen or bloated per say. She doesn't seem uncomfortable being held. I think...
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    Lethargy and white liquid from vent

    My two olive egger hens long had issues with laying shell-less or soft shelled eggs. I've seen both of them have the same problem before- they look a bit down and lethargic, their stance is more upright, as though laying an egg, and bits of egg exude from their vent. Today, one of them was...
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    Automatic doors: any suggestions.

    Yeah, that's pretty accurate. We have a pretty small run, which they never use, and stay in a large fenced area. It's not total free-range, but sort of. We haven't had any incidents of them not going in the coop for at least four months, but I see your point. It is one of my main concerns. I was...
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    Automatic doors: any suggestions.

    Thanks, that's helpful, we were also planning on having someone check on them everyday, just not have to worry about waking up super early or always have a deadline about about putting them in. My girls wouldn't like to be trapped in the coop either. Oh we think our neighbours are happy with...
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    Automatic doors: any suggestions.

    We're going away for a month and don't want to saddle our neighbors entirely with the chickens they've already seen and heard more than enough of. I have heard of automatic chicken doors and was wondering if anyone has more information about them or could recommend any? Are they safe in general...
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    Piece of comb detached and dangling

    Sounds good! Thanks!
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    Piece of comb detached and dangling

    Okay that is what I thought. I do not have a rooster.
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    Piece of comb detached and dangling

    This morning I found one of my hens had a weird thing dangling from her face, and when I investigated further, it turned out to be a big piece of her comb. I've had a chicken lose a piece of her comb before, but that time it just came straight off instead of just being ripped. I tried to wash...
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    Strange, dying chicken noises and flapping?

    Exactly like that!
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    Strange, dying chicken noises and flapping?

    They don't do it very often but I could try.
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    Strange, dying chicken noises and flapping?

    They are three year old barred rock hens and have been laying me eggs for a few years. They are the dominant hens and they both just molted, we have no roosters and this morning they were making more crow-like sounds, so I suppose they are trying to crow because there are no roosters about?
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