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So my girl is still limping the same after a week of treatment, and her wound is almost closed. I am wondering if she has damaged a muscle or a joint higher up?? I am still cleaning, bandaging etc, and there is no sign of any swelling on her pad at all. Should I now try to confine her to limit...

I cannot get anti-biotic cream here in the UK over the counter, and I cannot see my doctor prescribing me some for my chook hehe :) I have epsom cleaned it, put some poultry anti-bacterial powder on, then gauze, cotton pad (for comfort :p) and flexi bandage. My concern is that her limp is quite...

Here are some pics taken 10mins ago... The original "dirt scab" was not round either.. do not know if that means anything. Thanks for your replies :)

Hello BYC! I have an 18mth old Bluebell who started limping Saturday eve after her free range (I was away at the time and got a message from her carers). I asked them to try and inspect her leg and foot, and aside from a dirt scab on her left footpad, they said she seemed fine. When I got home...

Thanks for the reply.. fortunately she is much much better today. I hardly slept last night listening to her breathing (she is in my bedroom :p), and when it was quiet this morning I panicked, but there she was, preening away and breathing as if normal. 3 day course of treatment, 0 days discard...

My 1yr old girl had breathing probs over a few days, (open beak breathing leading to hoarseness) and the vet has prescribed Tylan in her water... she is ok in herself, but I have not witnessed her drinking. I have managed to syringe water her a little, she is eating her pellets, but I need to...

So many ailments!! I just hope none of my own girls ever have this kind of problem. Thanks again for all the info. I know this site has oodles of posts about different health issues, my head hurts from searching! :)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/853726/ascites-in-desperate-need-of-some-help-and-guidance/10 I am thinking he meant she had the same issue as the pictures Kathy linked... The necropsy pics. This is all I can imagine her to have suffered from. Basically a very poor diet prior to her coming...

Many thanks for the info. I took her to the vets who said it was not something she would recover from unless she had surgery, and even then she may not survive that. He said the huge mass was mineral based and not a tumor, and that she would eventually suffer more over the next few days, so I...

Hi, I am very desperate.. I have come home from holidays to find a new hen waiting in quarantine and only today when I picked her up, I felt she has a very large tummy...and yes, it feels like there is a very very large egg in her lower regions. I violated her nether regions using a medi...

Hi :) One of my girls ( young layer) has a beak that is shorter on the top than the bottom, and I am guessing that she is having problems preening due to the amount of lice she has, and she is also a lazy dust bather. I have powdered her with lice/mite treatment, dusted the nest boxes, the...

She is actually covered on her head/comb/wattles in pineapple juice from a cold fruit treat, with added sprinkles of dirt.. very sticky :) She doesnt mind her sponge bath to clean her back, but cleaning the comb etc is difficult :)

Her legs are white, more so than pink :)

Looking at pics of Amber stars, I believe you are right :) She does have some darker pigment splodges on a few of her feathers :) Thanks very much :) She is a lovely girl and very friendly :)

Hi all, I bought 3 POL's a few months back, 2 are very common breeds but 1 girl, I cannot find out what she is, purely by her colour! She is not white, she is not yellow or golden, but like a cream colour. Her neck feathers shine golden cream in the sunlight. I have had white chooks before and...

I don't know what to do.. she has such a strong will, but maybe I am hurting her more keeping her alive. It is like she wants and needs something, but I just do not know what it is, and bless her she cannot tell me. Raising from chicks is hard hard and heart breaking :(

She is still not gaining any weight and is not strong on her legs :( The cocci treatment has finished and I left a day and started a fresh flubenvet course "hoping" it is a worm issue, but she is not passing any worms. She has vitamin water (yes, she is drinking) and mineral powder in her chick...

here are her poop pics.. sorry but my phone camera is awful! Hope they offer some insight :) The 1st image is a regular poop, 2nd one is after her mini mealworm treat :)

I have just cleaned her pen before I saw this, so as soon as she deposits I will... on another note, when I was doing my daily lice check, for the 1st time I lifted the feathers on her thighs, normally I do vent, under wings, back of neck and chest.... and she had them!! I was like OMG!! I had...

She won't touch the yogurt lol! Even mixed in with her mash.... Too fussy for her own good! Any other means of giving her good bacterial? Thanks, Tahsa.