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    Egg bound??

    I have a 6 year old Barred Rock who is walking on very bent legs.She looks great, is eating tons of scrambled eggs, had greenish solid poop today, but won't stand. I contacted an avian vet who said she could have a egg high up in the oviduct. But I read another article that said if you checked...
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    Sick buff orpington

    I have a 5 year old Buff Orpington named Blondie that has lost a lot of weight and is weak. She has a whitish-yellow discharge from her vent and some yellow sores - these symptoms fit the description for vent gleet. I have read all about treatments for vent gleet - Epson salts (tried this...
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    Fighting Silkie hens

    I have two Silkie hens and 8 large hens (Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Sex-linked) - one of my Silkies went broody several weeks ago and I got 4 fertilized Silkie eggs from a neighbor and 4 chicks hatched a week ago. The Silkie Mom and chicks are in a separate pen from the others. Somehow, the...
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    Very red area under tail of barred rock

    My 8 lb. 3 year old barred rock hen was attacked by a fox 15 days ago. She had numeous wounds and lost a ton of feathers. I'm washing the wounds once a day and applying bacitracin - all attempts to cover the wounds failed because she wound rip them right off! I noticed a very red area under...
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