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    Hen Can’t Speak Anymore, Breathing Heavy

    My almost 8 Year Old Australorp has been off the last few days. She’s breathing a little bit heavier than normal and can’t speak anymore. When she tries to speak, it ends up sounding like she has a blockage of some sort. Otherwise she acts like the others. She eats, drinks, dirt bathes, etc...
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    Bump Next to Eye

    Any idea what this bump next to her eye is? I saw the bump maybe two months ago and it has grown some since then. In the past two days it has grown a lot more. She’s 9 months old with no other symptoms. For those noticing the dark patches on her skin, I made a thread about those a few months...
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    Are these benign?

    Two of my ~4 month old pullets have two types of marks on their faces. One was sold as a Sapphire Gem at Rural King (with a sign showing a light and dark color variation), the other was sold as a barred rock but I think she’s a black Australorp. Marks 1): Black patches on the face and comb, as...
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    Crop Issues for Weeks on End Despite Treatment

    Hi, I have two hens who have been having crop issues on and off for the past two weeks. Their crops have gone from impacted, to doughy, to sour, then better, to then having issues again. I’m at my wits end with this and I don’t understand what’s going on. Hen 1: Impacted -> Sour -> Better ->...
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    Bleeding in Iris, no other Symptoms, no Discharge

    Hi all, Starting on the 11th, I noticed one of my Buff Orpingtons had been keeping her right eye shut and was less active than she used to be. Her eye looked fine at the time so I wasn't sure what was wrong exactly. I offered her extra water in case she was not drinking as much, and gave her...
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    Yellow Toenail with Brown Tip, Scabs underneath toe

    Hi, I was bathing one of my hens 5 days ago when I discovered her toenail was yellow, with a brown tip on the end. It is shorter than her other nails (perhaps she broke it? But there was no bleeding), and she also has scabs underneath. The scabs look like an early case of bumblefoot, and I'm...
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    Unsure if Lice or Mites

    Hi y'all. I currently have a lice/mite infestation but I'm having a really hard time deciphering what critters I actually have. It is winter here. Two weeks ago, I discovered some small brown to black things crawling on my chickens' vent areas (they had just arrived since I check their vents...
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    7 yr Sussex hen breathes fast as she sleeps

    I noticed a bit over a week ago that my almost 7 year old Sussex hen (she will be 7 on 3/14) is breathing fast when she sleeps. I've been trying to diagnose the problem and provide treatment but I've had no avail. Read carefully as this isn't the normal "hen has labored breathing" case. Her...
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    Can Chickens Eat Raw Peas?

    I'm researching making my own chicken feed, and I see a lot of people using split peas in their feed as a protein source. But other people say that peas shouldn't be given to chickens raw, presumably because of the lectins. But other people seem to actively do so without issues. What do you all...
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    Nostril Wearing Away? Also overweight?

    This isn’t very high priority, but one of my hens, about a year ago, had one of her nostrils wear away. Basically, there’d be a pinhole and a line separating her nostril in two, and over time this got wider and wider until most of her nostril just fell off. That was a year ago and she didn’t...
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    Foot Problems

    About a week ago, right after temperatures plummeted from 70 to 40 F (Halloween T-Storm), I saw my oldest Orpington's feet turn red on the sides and fleshy parts. They weren't red before. She also has a raised bump in-between two of her toes, one on each foot. The one on her left foot has had a...
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    5 yr. Hen injured, now has dislocated beak

    So my 5 year old Easter Egger was picked up by my mother about 2.5 ft. above the ground before she fidgeted and tumbled out of her arms, and landed on her back in the grass and rolled over onto her feet. I examined her face and neck area and she seemed perfectly fine - no signs of injury as far...
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    Gurgling (Read Full Post,

    So one of my hens has (on top of Egg Yolk Peritonitis...which I've been treating) a Vitamin Deficiency, and is unable to walk. She doesn't really eat anything either when I hold it up to her. So I have been feeding her some stuff, which you can find in Appendix II. I'm hearing a gurgling sound...
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    Chicken Nose Bleed, 2 Nostril Questions

    Question #1 This evening I went into my coop and found one of my Orpingtons with her left nostril filled with new blood. It was just in her nose and hasn't ran down any further. I found it 45 minutes ago, and left the coop fifteen minutes ago. I believe she somehow got on the skin outside of...
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    Breed-Specific Behaviors?

    For those of us with mixed flocks, have any of you noticed that all the chickens of a certain breed will exhibit a certain behavior? Now I still think these cases are coincidental, but it's worth noting. All four of my Sussex hens are not averse to drinking olive oil. I was giving some to Spex...
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    Chicken Losing Weight

    Over the past week or so one of my two Buff Orpingtons has been losing weight. She is the biggest chicken I've ever had and was probably 8 pounds (beak to tail she is ~14") earlier. Now she weighs less, her keel bone is out by an inch, and I can feel her two breastbones. Below is a bunch of...
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    Foamy/Bubbly Eggs

    Lately I've been getting some watery whites from one of my hen's (Beep Beep's) eggs. I've already figured out why the whites are runny, but on those eggs, when cracked open, there's bubbles on the ends. Why is that? Other things about Beep Beep Breed: Australorp, Age: 1 yr 5 months, Eggs are...
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    Wrinkly "Pod" and Rubbery "Yolks(?)"

    Tonight I looked under my chickens' roost and found these (look at bottom center, 1 large white thing and a smaller one to the left of it) These white things are very rubbery and were kind of like silly putty. You press into them and they don't break; they just bounce back up when you let...
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    Chicken Vent Pecking

    Hi there, I'm back again. So two days ago I went out to check on my chickens and I found blood on her butt feathers only to find that her vent was pecked. I promptly segregated her and cleaned up her vent. However she is having a hard time pooping, my guess being because of the scab that is on...
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    Pendulous Crop?

    Hi everybody. Yesterday afternoon I noticed that one of my Sussex hens, Spex (abbreviation of Speckled and Sussex) had what seemed to be an impacted crop (she was trying to vomit..but it wasn't sour crop either. Very hard, not squishy, crop.). This has been the second time this year that she has...
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