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I have a partridge silkie hen that is a little over a year old. She is in with two roosters and another hen. The hen is walking upright, kind of like a penguin and her rear is very bloated. She had some stool stuck in the feathers below the vent so I cleaned her off. She also felt...
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I've got a Golden Laced Wyandotte rooster that is going on a year old and he has discovered 'what he can do'. His three hens have what I have heard called 'rooster tracks'. He has caused near-bareness on the hens backs and around the back of the girls heads. Short of keeping him separated...
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I have a silkie hen, about a year old, who is bloated. She is acting normal. She is alert, eating, drinking, etc., but her crop is huge. About the size of a tennis ball, which is extra large for a small silkie hen.
All of my other birds are normal, she is the only one that appears to be...
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I have a Golden Laced Wyandotte hen. She is almost a year old. She is in a coop with 3 other hens and a rooster. She is sickly underweight and I just noticed it two nights ago. They all typically sleep together on a perch inside the coop and she was laying on the ground underneath the...