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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

    I have a nine week old Buff who is half the size of the three other Buffs of the same age. I took her to the vet who tested for cocci and parasites. She was negative, but the vet wormed them anyway because an earlier fecal did show stronglytes. I have been weighing them weekly. The older ones...
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    Age to worm baby chicks

    Hello fellow chicken keepers. My little chicks will be seven weeks old Friday. They have had some runny poops and to be extra cautious I had our local farm vet check a fecal sample. No coccidosis but to my surprise she told me she found internal mites and stronglytes. Which I think is a kind of...
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    Watery poop

    I have four five week old chicks. I am feeding them medicated starter grower feed. Most poop is normal but one (and I’m not sure which one) has watery poop. I thought at first it was because they were drinking a lot of water. But I have been reading that I should perhaps start them on Corid...
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    How to keep my little chicks safe from possible virus?

    Hi. I really need help. I got four baby chicks at the feed store last week and they are very healthy and happy and their little Bruder in my upstairs bathroom however, on Saturday I had one of my older hands come down sick. I took her to the vet today and she is not egg bound, but she is having...
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    Probiotics for pasty butt

    Does anyone know how to break down one of those probiotic packages you get at Tractor Supply (the orange “Save A Chick” ones) to put a bit in a quart waterer? I only have four new chicks and I cleaned a pasty butt on one today. I don’t want to use a whole packet. Thanks!
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    Bumblefoot

    I have a three year old that was diagnosed by the vet with bumble foot. She opened the scan but could find no kernel just a lot of bleeding. She cushioned it with foam, applyed gauge and wrapped it with vet wrap. Prescribed antibiotics ( amoxicillin) and meloxicam tabs (cut in quarters) for...
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    Diarrhea

    I have one hen, five years old, which has a poopy butt. I have cleaned her up once, but she still has loose poops. Not really runny, but partially formed and rather squishy. I had a fecal test run a few days ago, and no parasites were found. Droppings from all my other hens (I have 4) are...
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    High liver enzymes

    I have a very sick hen who has just returned from a hospital visit where bloodwork revealed her liver enzymes are high. 520 I think. She spent two days there on supportive care. When they released her the vet said she was eating and drinking on her own, and her poop was normal. I have not...
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    How to keep an 11 year old hen warm when temps get below 10 degrees F

    I have an 11-year-old hen who is having some breathing problems and it’s supposed to get down to 4° in a couple of nights. She can no longer roost and rest on the floor of the raised area. I have six other healthy adult hen in the flock, I wonder if I should bring her in. For the night. I worry...
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    Old hen in frigid temps

    I have a hen who is almost nine years old. As temperatures plummet to single digits over the next several days should I bring her in? I have a flat panel heater in the roost area which raises the temp a couple degrees above outside air, and seven other hens. But she sleeps at the top of the...
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    Older Hen getting bullied

    I posted earlier this fall about my old hen, age 8 1/2 getting bullied by a 2 year old hen. Both are Buff Orpingtons in a flock of eight. As suggested I isolated the bully hen for 3 days in the basement and then in a dog crate in the run for a couple days where the others could see her. When...
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    Older hen being bullied

    I have a flock of eight Buff Orpingtons. They range in age from four are about 30 weeks, one is 5 1/2 years, two are 2 1/2 years and one old gal who is 9 1/2. One of my 2 1/2 year olds is jumping on my old gal and pecking her comb. Drawing blood. The most recent episode she really injured...
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    Roosting Wars

    I seem to have a dysfunctional flock. My four older hens have battled over roosting spots for over a year. My coop was designed for eight hens. It is a garden coop if anyone is familiar with that design. There is only room for one roosting bar. My oldest hen (8) has taken to sleeping in a...
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    Prolapsed vent and medication issues

    My eight year old Buff Orpington had a vent prolapse last Tuesday. I took her to the vet because I could not get the prolapse to stay in after cleaning her up, administering cortisone cream and reinserting it. The vet sutured her vent to keep the prolapse in and prescribed antibiotics and...
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    Bullying during molt

    I have a young hen who is super aggressive during her molt. She has been molting about two weeks. Yesterday she attacked my lone older hen who is also molting and has arthritis and cannot get away quickly. She put a hole in the older hens head. I have my old girl recovering in a hospital...
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    Help for an aging hen

    I have a 7 1/2 year old hen who has become lethargic, does not want to eat or drink and has clear droppings with slightly yellow urates. She was acting completely normal until two days ago. She also is in the middle of a molt, which is early but this is commonly when she molts. All other...
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    Sudden Death

    I lost a chicken suddenly last evening. I found her dead in the run when she had been fine just moments before. No sign of injury. She was eating, drinking and laying eggs normally. She was just a year old. The only thing I can think of is she had a bit of loose poop and I bathed her about...
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    Unexplained death

    My dear Henrietta died last night of mysterious causes. She was a six year old Buff Orpington, and the leader of my flock. She is buried now under her favorite Bridal Veil bush. I did not perform a necropsy and our vet had informed me that unless she does it immediately after, birds...
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    Sudden Death

    Last Friday, my ten week old chicken whom I am sure was developing into a rooster (he had been crowing for about a week) died suddenly. I was tending the little chicks in their coop in the morning. He was scratching and pecking around with the others when suddenly he fell over, had a seizure...
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    Cecal poop or coccidiosis?

    Hi. I have 4 three week old Buffs in a puppy playpen brooder. They have occasionally had a butterscotch like poops which I don’t recall from my other broods. I had been giving them medicated feed and a probiotic in their water but for the past two days I have given them plain water. This...
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