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  1. aymer

    after crop surgery

    on saturday my husband and a neighbor performed crop surgery on one of our hens. her crop had become distended three weeks ago. i brought her to the vet and the vet thought something was stuck in the bottom of her crop and quoted us $400-600. for the surgery. we decided not to have the vet do...
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    sulmet overdose?

    I used sulmet to treat my hens for coccidiosis. On day 5 of the treatment I had four out of six hens laying around instead of the usual pecking and scratching so i discontinued the treatment for fear of overdose. The last dose was on saturday evening. I am seeing no signs of improvement (they...
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    how soon can you re-worm?

    this is my neighbors 6 month old buff orphington. four weeks ago while i was chicken sitting i noticed one of the buffs was lethargic (flock of 17). i brought her to my house and put her in a rabbit hutch for observation. while she was walking around my laundry room floor she pooped out a round...
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    please help! not sure what to do next??

    background: i have five 1 1/2 year old hens and five 6 month old babies that are free range birds on an acre of land. two months ago i lost one of my hens. she was dead in the morning with no signs of trauma. she was nice and heavy. i buried her because i did not know UC Davis does chicken...
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    will a hen kill another hen??

    i have small flock consisting of two hens, one special chicken (she was born with a broken neck), and four five months old pullets. they have a small coop but have 2.5 acres to range on during the day. i brought home two hens on friday from our local humane society (barred rock and buff...
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    Failure to thrive??

    Ruth has always been the smallest chick. she is a 10 week old black cooper maran and her brothers and sisters are buff orpington/maran mixes. i did not worry about her because she is a different breed than the others. we were away visiting family for the past ten days and when we got back i was...
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    paralyzed/weak chick, please help!!

    on thursday evening i noticed one of the chicks (7 weeks old) seemed to be a bit sluggish. i held her for a minute and put her back in with the rest of the peeps and she seemed good (eating, drinking, running around with her brothers and sisters). the next morning my husband let the peeps out...
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    please help! comb hanging off

    one of my chickens combs just started to grow in (she looked beautiful!). i think the other chickens became jealous and tried to tear it off this morning. 1/4 of it is still attached correctly. the rest is hanging. i stopped the bleeding and put peroxide on her open wound. i brought her in my...
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    crookneck and force-feeding vitamins

    i am brand new to chicken raising. i have five two week old chicks. one of them has crookneck. the feed store was going to let nature take its course so i took her home with me. i have read many of the posts about crookneck treatments. she is still eating and drinking on her own (not nearly as...
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