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    Golden pheasant hen very...dribbly?

    I've had this hen for a few years now, she's very friendly, will perch on my hand for peanuts etc, but recently she's become...dribbly. I've noticed it a couple of times when she'll lower her head to eat and will just drool over it as she picks it up. Yesterday I got a bit more concerned because...
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    Are pheasants impressionable?

    Coming from someone who has an imprinted male golden, not sure I'd recommend it. The situations will be different sure, I hatched mine myself and after weeks indoors he was moved outside to a big run so he's not an indoor pet. I love him dearly (he's the one in my profile), and he's incredibly...
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    Second opinion on symptoms

    She went downhill and didn't respond to more offers of water so we took her to the vets, turned out to be very late stage egg peritonitis, she had a lot of fluid in her abdomen and it wasn't a good prognosis so the vet had her put to sleep, poor little thing. Definitely not an easy issue to...
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    Second opinion on symptoms

    She does have a bit of a smell about her, not the usual chicken/poop smell We've got 2 of the same commercial breed and one laid yesterday, but not sure which one
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    Second opinion on symptoms

    So I'm pretty sure one of my hens is laid low with sour crop, but I wanted to get a second opinion before I started doing anything about it, and also to get an idea of how urgent the situation is. Hen is an ex-commercial bird (not ex-battery, came from a free range farm nearby), I think around...
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    Just lost a hen, help with cause?

    Okay, nothing but the pellets for them then! I am concerned looking at the tread rebrascora linked, because her face went quite purple I'm really hoping it wasn't Marek's. But like I said I'll keep an eye on the others and get some autopsies done if anyone else goes
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    Just lost a hen, help with cause?

    @rebrascora I have to admit she got disposed of earlier so I won't be doing a necropsy, but if any other chicken dies I'll definitely save them for such. Hopefully it won't come to that though. I'll definitely give that thread a read too so I know what I'd be looking for @KikisGirls Yeah I've...
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    Just lost a hen, help with cause?

    As bad as it sounds, I'm really hoping it was just heat stroke and nothing contagious. I'm definitely going to be keeping a closer eye on the drinkers personally from now on so hopefully this doesn't happen again. Does anyone have advice with extra ways to keep chickens cool? I've tried having...
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    Just lost a hen, help with cause?

    @rebrascora She was an Ixworth, a pretty large breed. The handfuls are shared between 7 birds, cockerel included. She felt a good weight, not over or under weight. I did do a probe with a finger and couldn't feel an egg blocked anywhere, but it was the first time I'd done it so I could have...
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    Just lost a hen, help with cause?

    We give them a handful or two of wild bird seed every day, they're really greedy buggers. Can those sorts of things cause internal bleeding? I haven't heard of that before, I have been trying to give them less 'treat' food though
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    Just lost a hen, help with cause?

    I went out to check on the girls this morning and one was lying on the ground some way away, shaking pretty badly. We tried to get her to drink but she wouldn't take anything by herself. I assumed it was dehydration as the skin on her legs looked pretty flaccid and shriveled. We brought her in...
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    Old(ish) wound on hip

    Update Been a bit of a while but I thought I'd post an update/conclusion to this. The hen is fine and healing well, although I discovered other smaller wounds all along her and her sister's back from the cockerels. I've made them a couple of hen aprons out of old jeans so they're super tough...
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    Old(ish) wound on hip

    Bit of a grossness warning ------ There's gathered dirt/scabbing at the bottom but the wound itself is pretty clean, the skin around it is still nice and pink and it's not bleeding heavily at all. Only about half a centimetre deep. She has developed the slightest limp since this morning but...
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    Old(ish) wound on hip

    Discovered a wound on one of my hens this morning after going out to feed them. She went to clean her butt and lifted her wing and I caught sight of a bald spot that looked quite crusty. Got a better look at it just now and there is definitely a puncture of some kind, although it's quite...
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    Sleeping habits?

    So I just went out to shut up my birds and found the cockerel lying flat on the floor (no perch in there) but with his head stretched out looking like he was dead. Eyes shut, not moving, I had a small heart attack until I poked him and he woke up, looking a little put out at being disturbed. Is...
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    Anything else I can do for weak hen?

    I think my efforts were a little too late. Went in to check on her and as if she'd been waiting for some company she passed away pretty quickly after I got in. She was a sweet little thing and we're all pretty sad, but I'll be keeping an eye on the remaining chickens to make sure they don't get...
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    Anything else I can do for weak hen?

    She's about 2 or 3 I think? No idea when she last laid an egg, its been a while. She was broody with a clutch in the spring and then immediately went broody again after they'd grown up. No swelling or bloating that I can feel in the upper half, but also very little breast muscle so she's pretty...
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    Anything else I can do for weak hen?

    Added note, she is panting with her beak open, heavy fast breathing, loud enough that I can hear it from the doorway. Occasionally she burbles, but not very often. I'm hoping it's pure dehydration rather than a respiratory thing
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    Anything else I can do for weak hen?

    The birds have all been treated themselves and are doing much better, the hen in question has had an injection to kill off any mites still on her due to her worse condition, and she's basically now mite free. That was a few days ago and she was starting to perk up until the weather suddenly got...
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    Anything else I can do for weak hen?

    Unfortunately, mites and lice snuck up on us. We had a slight panic over the weekend flea-bombing the hen houses as we discovered they were teeming with blood suckers. One of the hens, our only silver laced Wyandotte, got the worst of it and was getting weaker and skinnier gradually, but today...
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