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    Extremely Skinny Hen

    About 6 months ago, I rescued a Buff Orpington hen. She was very skinny at that time, which attributed to mistreatment, but she is still skin-and-bones. She has no fat or even flesh of any sort on her body, and she must only weigh 3 pounds. She is also molting a lot, laying every day at the same...
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    Sour crop help?

    A day and a half ago I noticed one of my hens was very lethargic, and quickly figured out that it was sour crop. Since, I have given her apple cider vinegar, tried to feed her yogurt, and given her a small dose of yeast infection cream (clotrimazole). I've also massaged her crop, and when all...
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    (urgent) Fluid-filled throat, bloated, lethargic

    A couple of months ago, I had a hen with what I thought was egg yolk peritonitis. She was very lethargic, bloated, thin, and had egg-like fluid dripping from her vent. She did a strange back-and-forth movement with her neck, as if to clear her throat, and she had a lot of mucus in her...
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    Bloated hen

    About five days ago, I discovered one of my hens walking strangely. Her backside seemed bloated and swollen, and she was waddling with her feet turned in. Her posture was like that when laying an egg or pooping. Initially, I was afraid she was egg bound, and caught her to try to treat this...
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    Egg yolk peritonitis!?

    I don't have much time to write this, but I'm pretty sure one of my hens has egg yolk peritonitis. She has most of the symptoms and a history with laying strange eggs. She's still very alert but lethargic, can still walk but doesn't have much of an appetite. She seems sort of fluid-filled when I...
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    Lethargy and white liquid from vent

    My two olive egger hens long had issues with laying shell-less or soft shelled eggs. I've seen both of them have the same problem before- they look a bit down and lethargic, their stance is more upright, as though laying an egg, and bits of egg exude from their vent. Today, one of them was...
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    Automatic doors: any suggestions.

    We're going away for a month and don't want to saddle our neighbors entirely with the chickens they've already seen and heard more than enough of. I have heard of automatic chicken doors and was wondering if anyone has more information about them or could recommend any? Are they safe in general...
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    Piece of comb detached and dangling

    This morning I found one of my hens had a weird thing dangling from her face, and when I investigated further, it turned out to be a big piece of her comb. I've had a chicken lose a piece of her comb before, but that time it just came straight off instead of just being ripped. I tried to wash...
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    Strange, dying chicken noises and flapping?

    I've been wondering for awhile about this strange thing two of my hens do. I will hear this sound that seems similar to maybe the sound of a chicken in absolute agony, and I will rush out to check on them, and they seem completely fine and proper. Then, after watching them for awhile, one will...
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    Hens eating mud?

    I have four chickens, different ages. Whenever I clean out their water by dumping it on the ground, they all rush over like I'm giving them the best treat ever and start drinking from the ground. If I kick dirt in the water and make it into thicker mud they think that's even better. It's...
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    Hen has rash on chest

    One of my older hens has a patch on her chest where the feathers are missing and broken off around the edges. It is where her crop is and it looks red and a bit irritated but she doesn't mind me touching it. There is dirt and yellow gunk in the feathers around the patch. Is it something to be...
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    Should I kill the rats?

    We have a bunch of rats who frequent the chicken yard, but they've been there for awhile and they do no harm, just nibble whatever is on the ground. They avoid the chickens and the chickens avoid them. Is there any need to kill them or can they live in peace with the chickens? They've never...
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    Hen having egg problems

    One of my hens has always had problems with her eggs, she will lay soft shelled eggs, sometimes without the shell and lay the shell later, eggs from the roost, take half a day to lay an egg and lay them in various places. It hasn't caused any trouble so far, but she is my favorite hen and she is...
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    ⠀ Pesticide Question

    so we moved into our house eleven years ago, and two years ago we got hens. The previous owners of our house used pesticides rather heavily. Lately I was thinking about this, and wondering whether such chemicals are condensed within eggs, and whether it is unhealthy to eat the eggs. I know for a...
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    Thin hen. Should I be worried?

    So last summer I had a pulley die suddenly in her sleep. Leading up to this, she was very thin. Now one of my hens also feels super thin, i.e. no fat at all on either sides of the breastbone. She was never really fat but now it's worrying. Is there any correlation between the two? Or is she just...
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    Help my hen looks really sick, please help me diagnose her!!!

    I have a hen who this morning was running around and very happy, and how looks very down and can't even walk. Her feathers are fluffed up and she has a small bit of diarrhea running down her vent feathers. I can't tell whats wrong with her could you please help me diagnose her?!!! If it has any...
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    I think my pullet has depression. Seriously.

    A few weeks ago, I noticed that the bottom girl in my flock of four birds was getting furiously attacked by her once friend. She immediately stopped laying, and started sitting around dejectedly, staring blankly. She's gotten thinner since then, and not laying eggs. I've found a few feathers...
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    My hen has become suddenly aggressive.

    I have four hens, some one year old and the others eight months. They have always been separated into two groups of young and old, and they have been dear friends in each pair. But then I noticed one of the younger hens furiously attacking her friend. It started this evening and just a few hours...
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    Double yolk eggs.

    I have never heard that laying double yolk eggs is bad, but one of my olive eggers lays them every two or three days. Should I be worried about her?
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    Four chickens ate a rather large can of mealworms. Liver damage and/or possibly death?

    When I went to check on my chickens, I found they had knocked over a full container of mealworms and eaten them all. Should I be worried about them? I've heard that mealworms will hurt their livers and they can die if they are fed handfuls every day.
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