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My 5 year old hen has had swelling in her right foot for over a month now. I came to realize she likely had scaley leg mites, so I’ve been treating her and the rest of the flock as well as the coop for a month. The swelling isn’t getting any better. It clearly is hurting her, she stops and picks...

My 8 month old hen started having the runs on Thursday. Friday there was blood in her poop and she was drinking an excessive amount of water. Saturday even more blood, so I started Corrid. Sunday no more blood, but still drinking a lot, and her poop is just mostly water. She stopped eating, but...

my poor girl started with an infected abscess above her eye in mid July. She wasn’t eating but after removing the infection and treating it, she started eating again. The eye appears to have healed up nicely, but she is still rubbing it and now she’s not eating again. In the morning, her crop...

i don’t know whether or not I should be concerned. My hen , along with two other of the same age started laying at about four and a half months old. We had a hot spell and my barred rock appeared to really be suffering from the heat. Her comb flopped over and she stopped laying. It has cooled...

My 3 year old hen had an infected lump above her eye which was removed mid-July. Since then she’s been rubbing her eye a lot, although it’s slowing looking better and now hardly noticeable. The problem is when I was treating her for the eye she started eating less and less. Now I don’t know how...

I don’t know what to think. She has always been more of an open mouthed breather than the others, but has really been doing some heavy breathing thr last few days. I saw the big rooster mount her three times in 15 minutes and it looks like he’s crushing her, but I don’t know if they could be the...

I have been dealing with weak egg shells for quite some time now. I have done what I can to increase the calcium intake of my birds. I just read an article that said giving them water with any type of softener in it will cause calcium absorption issues. We use lanpum sm50 calcite/corosex mix in...

My hen has had this lump above her eye for almost a month now. I initially thought she was pecked or scratched and I started applying triple antibiotic, which has always worked in always in the past for us. it didn’t improve so I started using Terramycin instead. Still no changes. What do...

There’s got to be something else I can do for this girl. I’ve been treating this for over a week now with triple antibiotic ointment, and it’s not improving. I’ve checked her all over for any other issues and she come up clean.

I cannot get a good photo because she’s really skittish. Over a week ago I saw my hen sitting with her left eye closed. A day or two later I notices a small bump above her eye. I suspect she either scratched it or was pecked there and it’s become infected. I have been using an antibiotic salve...

my hen who prolapsed a few weeks ago is consistently laying very large, very weak shelled eggs. I’ve been trying to supplement her with extra calcium from crushed egg shells, but her egg quality is not improving. Is there something I can give her that will absorb better than the traditional...

My hen had a prolapse last week, and finally after nursing her, on Tuesday, it went back in. It still had a thick scabby thing stuck to part of what was hanging out, but since it went back in by itself, I left it alone. She looks good from the outside, clean bum, no noticeable swelling. Today I...

After being away for five days I found my hen with a prolapse. I have been soaking her in Epsom salts, and trying different remedies including oak bark, hydrocortisone, coconut oil and an anti fungal/anti bacterial spray. This morning after her soak I was working on picking at a large scabby...

i am sick over this. I am treating a girl for prolapse and used a sheet over her cage to keep it dark. One of my three month old pullets somehow got a thread loose and swallowed it. I tried gently pulling it out, but it only came so far until it wouldn’t budge. She squeaked when I tried to get...

I cannot get this to stay in. I’ve tried prep h, sugar water, and sugar. I try holding it in but her vent is throbbing, and every time she poops it comes out. She just laid an egg a couple of hours ago. I feel like my constant messing with it isn’t helping. She is 4 years old and lays rather...

I just want to confirm what I think I already know. . . 10 weeks old.

I am having issues with weak-shelled eggs. My hens eat a layer feed, and free range at least 1-4 hours per day. I have also been adding crushed egg shells as well as crushed oyster shells to their diet. Two of my hens are always laying weak shelled eggs. The others are fine. It seems by adding...

i have had four eggs in two weeks I found under the roost. The first one was shell less. The following three appeared normal, but were broken and eaten by the time I got out to let them out in the morning between 6:30 and 7:00. I once read that if a hen doesn’t lay by 3 pm, she won’t lay the...

My sweet little Legbar died today. She had been showing signs of sickness for over a year. A vet thought she might have aspergillosis, although none of my others have shown signs of illnesses. It has driven me nuts, thinking maybe something I did wrong caused her to get sick. I want to get a...

All my hens started molting and stopped laying last October. We had a dry winter with no eggs until the end of January when they slowly started laying again. All, except my Americauna. She has not laid an egg since October and now we are at the end of March. She is only not quite two years old...