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    Chronically prolapsed one year old broiler hen laying better than my layers, and I don't want her to

    About three weeks ago I noticed my one year old rescued broiler hen Cricket in distress. She was gasping for air, straining and moaning. I brought her inside and noticed she had prolapsed, and had a perfectly egg shaped uterus hanging out of her. I did my best to try to turn and manipulate...
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    Thanks! She is a little hoot whom I adore and will live out her broiler chicken life as long as she can!
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    She made the local paper! http://www.myeasternshoremd.com/news/kent_county/article_f284bfdb-b804-5b7d-8173-818ac3874c86.html#.VO4X0yYONSs.facebook
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    Little Blue Bird is doing wonderful! Active, talkative and a bundle of trouble! He/she is actually turning into a little celebrity. The Facebook post the humane society I work for put up reached over 80,000 views! Her story went all over the country...
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    Got all stitched up at the vet today. Things were getting infected despite the antibiotics. Her wing and toe are also broken.
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    So the best way to clean the wound? Soap and water? I can cover it back up with her sagging skin, almost like it could be stitched back in place.
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    A cockerel broiler? I've never seen one! I didn't know they let them live so long. I have another broiler that bounced off a truck. Thankfully for her in the summer time. I'm very careful with her diet, though I know her life is short. She's around a year old, and fat as a tick, but seems...
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    I gave .5 clavamox this evening after she seemed hydrated and got a small meal in. She's sleeping now. Thank you everyone for your advice! Here she is at 8:30am, tucked in my jacket after I received the dispatch, my first thought was to put her down. I have chickens and I know this look...
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    Here is the wound. Should I apply peroxide? Its such a gaping area I'm worried it would get under her skin/in her body based on the hole right under the base of the wing.
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    She's drinking!!! I don't have a bowl in her crate because I think she's too uncoordinated, I'm just offering every 10 minutes or so. When should I offer food? Should I let her hydrate first or just offer food?
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    She's taking small sips of water, and by small I mean barely. Her breathing is still labored. I have some electrolyte mix, warm. I dose cats 1ml 2x daily for 10 days, kittens .5ml 2x a day. Should I dose her like a cat or a kitten? Do they tolerate it the same? I'd guess she's about four or...
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    PLEASE HELP, I have never gotten a response on this forum for any kind of ailment. Is there any information/dosage for clavamox/biomox in chickens someone can point me too? And yes, I have searched and read many articles but I need more information to save this girl.
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    HELP: Hypothermic/road rash pullet

    I picked up a chicken who had fallen off a Purdue truck. She had spent an entire night outside, I grabbed her at 8:30 this morning. She was ice cold and gasping for air. I've slowly warmed her up and she is perking up slightly. She has a large area of torn skin under her wing and a small...
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    Sick rooster, help ASAP, crashing quick

    I got him to vomit, so I guess it's his crop. I just went ahead and gave him clavamox. I don't know the dosage, so I gave him the dosage I give my kittens. He weighs more than a kitten, so I hope it was save. I felt like he was going to die tonight if I didn't do something. I hope I made...
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    Sick rooster, help ASAP, crashing quick

    To give antibiotics and fluids or not? I've got the old school root of yogurt, apple cider vinegar in the water and olive oil syringe massages but I'd like to do more. Please help me help this guy. I'm an animal control officer and I seized him from a neglectful owner a few months ago (he...
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    Sick rooster, help ASAP, crashing quick

    Last night I found my roo laying on the floor of the coop, he was not on the roost with his ladies as usual. This morning he looked like crap, comb blackish and cold. Home from work now and he really looks bad. Diarrhea, comb darker and still cold, his crop is bloated but he's very thin...
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    List of common issues and there symptoms for Animal Control purposes

    We aren't so much concerned with disease outbreak as we are the treatment of medical issues in domestic animals. I would think disease outbreak would fall under USDA, but chickens are domestic so their living conditions and common health issues fall under animal control. I was thinking things...
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    List of common issues and there symptoms for Animal Control purposes

    I recently started a job as an animal control officer in a rural area. We encounter a lot of farm animals in our travels, and although we are well versed with dogs and cats farm animals can sometimes get lost in the mix. I would like to compile a list of common and easily identifiable medical...
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    Predator eyes

    We had the chicks in the laundry room behind an old door, which doesn't always shut all the way. Someone (ahem....boyfriend) didn't shut it all the way. He called me at work to tell me the story and said the chick had a tiny "scratch." (he didnt want to worry me, lot of good that did) I came...
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    Predator eyes

    Bloody
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