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  1. Sunflower

    Need help!

    Need some help/encouragement. I have pet chickens. One of my oldest hens, Matilda, age 8, is crippled and limps. Her injured leg is getting worse and on top of that she has COPD or asthma-like symptoms. (3 dozes of antibiotics didn't touch it.) It's time to end her suffering. We've only culled...
  2. Sunflower

    First try at the cone method - fail! Size does matter.

    A friend gave us 3 14 week old cornish chickens to try our hand at processing them. We are first and foremost, the owners of pet chickens, so this has been a bit of a struggle preparing for. We tried the cone method once for a sick hen and found it a better method than taking her to the vet...
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    Mystery illness in my barred rock hen

    Matilda has a terrible rattle in her lungs for quite a while. At times her nostrils get "buggers" and she has to breath from her mouth and I take a q-tip with oil and wipe them clean. She is a good eater and still the top hen. She is crippled from a fall two years ago and is slowing down b/c...
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    Rooster dying of old age? Need your thoughts please. :'(

    I've got a 7 year old leghorn that I believe is dying from old age. "Art" has just been changing over the last month, really ever since the big polar vortex. He just couldn't seem to get warm. He seems a little disoriented at times. His craw is ok, I've given him extra protein, put on heating...
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    Older hen proplased vent + egg bound- need advise

    My 6 year old mix breed hen was found last Wed. 2/5/14 with a very poopy butt and it was 10 degrees out, so I brought her in to clean her up. I noticed her vent was popped out and black (frostbite?) So I got the dog crate out and put her in a warm place for the night. Next day, I soaked her...
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    Does anyone have experience with canker?

    I have a 6 year old plymouth barred rock hen who I believe has canker. This old girl is still pretty peppy, eats good, she is the top hen. But she has a swollen eye, excessive thirst, shakes her head a lot and has the brown things in her mouth. I have not heard good things about this canker...
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    Swollen face around eye and a sore on rooster - pics incl.

    Hi everyone and my fellow chicken lovers! What an awful week, we lost our sweet little banty rooster last week and now my big boy, Arthur, has a swollen face and a lump with weird opening near his beak. I think my banty, Cap'n Jack either had heart failure or may have had a respiratory...
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    Old banty rooster has dark/ purple comb, lethargic, runny white poo

    I have a 5-6 year old banty rooster that we call Cap'n Jack. He was fine in the evening when I checked on flock at 10 pm, Christmas day. By 8:00 am the next day, he was very sick. It was 8 degrees that night. I had two heat lights on them and temp stays btwn 20-40 degrees in the coop. Small...
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    Rooster w/ red "elbow" needs help. He's very grumpy. (pics) Thanks for any help!

    My big boy, Art the rooster has a red spot on his "elbow" that won't go away. I have a feeling it might be bugs - but why the elbow only? I know he's had a problem with either lice or mites. I treat him often w/ diam. earth. He is my only bird that seems to be prone to the bugs always being...
  10. Sunflower

    anyone heard of or know what to do for a hen that keeps throwing up?

    My 2 yr old hen keeps throwing up a slimy yellow muscusy fluid. I've been working with her since Tuesday and she is skin & bones. I can't get anywhere with her. She has been drinking some water w/ a powder terramycin dissovled but there has been no improvement. She is also contorting her neck...
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    2 yr old Hen very sick, need advice ASAP. don't know what else to do.

    any help is very appreciated. I am so sad b/c one of my favorites, one of our plymouth barred rock hens is very sick. I first noticed a couple weeks ago, she had greenish poop dried up on her back side. So we took her in, cleaned her up and have been watching her. All was fine until 2 nites...
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    Bittersweet vine & chickens? Safe or not?

    I just got a bittersweet vine for my birthday, but I have chickens. Not sure if it's safe or not? I just grow it for the decorations in the fall.
  13. Sunflower

    Keeping rabbits outside - need advise - new rabbit owner

    Hi everyone! I recently inherited about a 9 month old small rabbit. The former owner couldn't keep him any longer and was going to take it to the animal shelter. I thought I'd give it a try. We put his cage first in the garage, thought it was too cold so we moved him inside. The former owner...
  14. Sunflower

    Hoarse Rooster? And I'm complaining?

    Yes, I seem to have a Rooster that is hoarse! He is loosing his little voice. It's sounds so squeeky it's kind of cute...I'm not complaining at all, really, I'm just kind of worried about the poor fellah. Has any one heard of that before? He does like to let his presence be known more than...
  15. Sunflower

    Rooster hates my hubby!

    Has anyone else seen this? My rooster is so sweet, my sweet Art. I can carry him around and he'll fall asleep in my arms or get really sleepy anyway. My husband swears that Art attacks him. He'll do a little dance thing and then spur his ankles. I'm not sure I believe him! just kidding...
  16. Sunflower

    Clipping wings - oops

    My chickens are driving me crazy - the four leghorn mixes LOVE to roam around and always fly over the fence. SOOOO I remembered (incorrectly) about clipping their wings and clipped off the wrong ones. (kind of the middle section - instead of the first flight feathers. Now I have to go back and...
  17. Sunflower

    I'm so sad...

    Why is it so hard? I know it's for the best, but I had to rehome my banty roo, Fireball, yesterday. We all miss him so much. Now I wonder if we did the right thing.. We got Fireball and his brother together, hoping for a couple of hens but got the two boys. They have a girlfriend, Lucky...
  18. Sunflower

    Limping Lakenvelder - what's wrong w/ Luckey?

    My Lakenvelder is about 10 weeks old. She was very small for a long time and then got big pretty fast. I noticed a while back that she looks funny when she runs, kind of waddles side to side. Then two days ago, I thought I saw her limping a little. Now today, she is limping really bad. :(And...
  19. Sunflower

    NE Kansas-trade or give away Bantam

    I got 2 bantams at Orschleins in Lawrence, KS and ended up with two Cockerals, darn it all. He is so sweet, just like his brother. Would like to trade for a bantam hen or give Fireball to a good home only. This is Fireball. Here he is just a young thing I'm not sure what type he is, but...
  20. Sunflower

    Chickens don't seem to like new coop

    Our 9 chickens range from 9-6 weeks old. been hanging out in the former dog pen (sorry Cassie) during the day for a couple of weeks now while the weathers good. Then we herd them back in to our garage where their pen is and they've been since about 2 weeks old. We've spent a LOT of time on...
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