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    Gaping/yawning and swiping?

    Question: I have a broody silkie and when she comes out from the nest she gapes/yawns (adjusting crop?) and does a lot of swiping her face on the grass. I didn't see anything alive and 'moving' around her eyes etc. I dusted the dusting areas and nesting areas with diamataceous (sp?) powder...
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    Maggots attacking hen again.

    My hen has been attacked by maggots again, this time I didn't get to them as quickly as I did last time, so there is more surface damage this time. My red hen has a problem with having a "poopy butt" and thus attracts the flies that lay the eggs and the maggots that feast on her flesh. I've...
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    Found magots/worms in wound near vent????

    I just acquired some re-homed chickens and I am total newbie to chicken care. I just bathed and clipped the vent feathers of my red hen and found a mass of "micro"worms living/swarming on what might have been the remains of a dead fly - it was a black oozy mass (a dead fly did run off the area...
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