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    Chicken touching her beak to her stomach and walking backwards quickly

    I had written about my wheezing hen. Presently she's not improving with her wheezing despite giving her good vitamins, electrolytes and probiotics. She's still eating well and active. But now she's developed this thing where out of the blue she'll tuck her head towards her stomach and walk...
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    Completely baffled over wheezing chicken.

    I have a RIR hen who has been loudly wheezing for a couple of months now. I've tried a couple of antibiotics, to no avail. A couple of times she had a little yellow mucus in one eye but the antibiotics clear that up. But the loud wheezing is not improving. The weird thing is that this hen...
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    Not sure what is wrong with hen.....thought egg bound?

    I have a hen that I treated for everything under the sun. Nothing is improving her condition. Her symptoms are a shriveled up comb and she stands around with her neck tucked in. She's been like this for several months. She's not getting worse....but not better. I examined her abdomen and it...
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    hens won't go inside coop

    I have 16 hens. 5 of them are the youngest and just started laying eggs. They lay their eggs in the coop but at night they insist on sleeping outside. Outside the coop they are in a critter proof enclosure but its not completely out of the weather elements. I've tried to put them in the coop...
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    Egg thin on one end. ?????

    One of my hens lays an odd egg on a daily basis. It is super thin on one end and it breaks just picking it up. The rest of the egg is nomal except for about an inch on one end. My hens have access to oyster shells 24/7 and they are being fed good laying mesh. What could be causing this? Is...
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    At my wit's end! Chicken's mouth won't heal

    Several weeks ago I posted about my chicken having a yellow mass in her mouth. I treated it with iodine and vetericyn. For a few weeks now I've had her separated from the flock, I've given her Tylan 50 for her cough....which is much better, and I have been able to remove the mass in her mouth...
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    Coal ash, safe?

    My husband has a wood burner and burns both wood and coal in it. Would it be safe to use the ashes for a dust bath? I know wood ash is safe but I'm not sure if it's OK if coal ash is mixed in. Thanks!
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    Need some advice about a prolapsed vent

    I went to feed my chickens this morning and all was normal. I went to check on them again and I noticed one of the hens has a reddish pink bubble hanging out of her vent. I went and got some surgical gloves and eased it back into her. She didn't squabble or seem in pain when I did this. As...
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    I was hoping someone could tell me what this is (picture included)

    I will give a summed up account of what this hen is doing. In November I noticed she was coughing. So I tried a couple of antibiotics. I tried Tylan 50 water soluable and another antibiotic that starts with a "D"....I can't think of the name right now but it says for respiratory ailments. I...
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    The best chicken wormer? And how often?

    I have a general worming question. I've read so much about what to deworm chickens with that I'm confused!! If I use Safeguard will that eliminate most types of worms? And how often should you deworm your chickens? Also, how long should you wait before you can eat the eggs again after deworming?
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    Neef help...hen has a squishy chest and when she exhales she cackles!

    This morning I noticed my one hen was lethargic. I picked her up and noticed she had a swishy feeling to her chest. I thought maybe is was sour crop. But there is no odor coming from her mouth and I did the crop massaging procedure but she didn't expel anything. When she stands she jerks...
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    bloated hen....any suggestions?

    When I fed my chickens today I notice one was sitting by herself. She ran from me but I caught her and noticed her belly and vent area are very bloated and she had a runny milky colored liquid coming out of her vent. We quarantined her but not sure if I can expect her to make it. Just...
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    A respiratory disease slowly wiping out my flock???

    I have 15 hens and one rooster. The other day I found one hen dead on the roost. She showed no signs of illness and I checked her over and there were no wounds. So I assumed it was just one of those things. But I went to tend to my flock this morning and now I have one that is acting less...
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    Swollen crop....general question

    After doing much research on here, I think my hen that just died recently, died of something related to her crop. She was sluggish many days before she finally was just laying there and ended up dying. Other than being lethargic, her only other symptom was a slightly enlarged crop and it felt...
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    Blueing comb, lethargic, puffy chest and threw up black stinky liquid!

    I have a chicken who has been lethargic lately. He comb has been slowly turning blue towards the back of it. I checked on her tonight and she wasn't on the roost. She was on the floor of the coop. I picked her up and her chest felt puffy and squishy. And then she suddenly threw up a very...
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    HENS DYING!! Bellies bloating and mushy! Please help!

    A couple of weeks ago I had a hen that needed to be put down because her belly skin had dried up, cracked open and then the belly underneath was like full of liquid. We thought maybe it was because she was really old. But now I have a hen who isn't even 2 yrs old that is displaying the same...
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    Eye Infection

    I have a hen that I've been trying to help for several weeks now. Her eye problem started with her just having it closed. Then it was seeping mucus. I gave her doses of Sulmet and put neosporin in her eyes. Nothing is helping. Right now the surrounding area around her eye is beginning to...
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    Feeding chickens fruit

    I just read in a magazine that you shouldn't feed laying hens fruit because it will make them stop laying. The magazine said it could take them up to 6 weeks to start laying again after eating fruit. Is this true? And if so, why?? Thanks!!
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    One dead chicken/2 more sick! Can't figure out what's wrong!

    A week ago I had a chicken die on me very suddenly. Today I went out to feed them and one of my chickens was wobbling around as if it's legs were bothering it. We isolated her and gave her some antibiotics. Now, this evening, another chicken is beginning to show the same symptoms of...
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