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    ILT (Infectious Laryngotracheitis) diagnosed in Portland, OR

    Just wanted to give a heads up that my Ameraucana, Reba, just passed away and I had a necropsy done which came back with "Acute necrotizing tracheitis due to infectious laryngo-tracheitis virus infection"(ILT). ILT is caused by a chicken herpesvirus and often produces necrosis, hemorrhage and...
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    have a vomiting wild squirrel with free-ranging chickens

    This may sound odd, but this morning when I let the girls out in the yard, I heard an awful sound and found it was a squirrel ( one of our regulars) on a branch heaving and vomiting a white, frothy foam. It did it several times. I saw it in the yard only once today and the rest of the time...
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    what's this on my Americauna's face?

    My 5 month old Americauna Hen has this weird red marking around her mouth and eyes. What is it? I don't see any bugs on her and I have DE in her dusting box, which she uses, in her bed and nesting box. She eats what my other 2 hens eat and they don't have that. She is not yet laying. She...
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    Labored open beaked breathing

    I have a Brabanter who was born in Feb 2012 and she was wobbly to begin with but with some. Electrolytes, she improved but always seemed to lag behind our other 3 hens of the same age. Here recently, I've noticed that with minimal stress she begins open beaked breathing and her breathing sounds...
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    red areas around beak and on face

    I am new to chicken keeping and have a Brabanter, Americauna, Wyandotte and Plymouth Rock that all have small areas of red by their beaks and ears. It doesn't look like mites and they are all eating well and are boisterous. Is this just a normal thing or could it be something they're eating...
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