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    Prolapse - possible injury too (GRAPHIC)

    This morning Luna laid her egg. She's funny because she makes the little chirping noise they make when you give them treats! She laid an egg as normal. Later this afternoon, my daughter said "one of the chickens had a very dirty butt" and on checking, she had been dust bathing and was covered...
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    More trouble. - noisy breathing, lethargic not really eating

    I'm beginning to wonder if there's something going on..... Today another of the hens has taken a nosedive. She seemed fine yesterday and this morning I was paying more attention to her sick sister, whose got bad feet, but she didn't strike me as being out of the ordinary. This evening, she...
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    Hen pooping jet of egg yolk and white

    I seem to be getting problems at the moment. I lost one hen 2 weeks ago from cancer, although she fought incredibly. I'm currently treating one of my girl's feet which have these deep pockets in the webbing. They've got infected so I'm cleaning them with weak iodine solution and then packing...
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    Nutridrench and a recovering hen

    Hello and Happy New Year I have one of my older hens who is 4 and had just had a huge amount of liquid drained from her abdomen (660ml or 22.3 FL Oz). Initially I thought it was egg binding and did all the usual stuff (Epsom salts bath and digital inspection). She just kept going but not...
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    Possible broken wing

    Yesterday I got 4 rescue battery hens. All was well and the first girl to have a dust bath and seemed very comfortable, suddenly got freaked out by a cat and flew like a berserker, smashing into an upright in the run. She carried on giving the warning cries etc. This morning, after her first...
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    Persistent sour crop

    I was away for a few days and got reports that one of my girls had a squishy crop. At first I thought the description was a doughy crop but once I got home, it was obvious it was sour crop due to the smell and the amount of fluid in her crop. I've drained her yesterday and a bit today. At one...
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    Sour crop - 3 days running

    One of my hens has a bad case of sour crop. Day 1 (Friday) I noticed she wasn't herself. Her crop wasn't massive but it was squishy. I massaged it several times and hoped for the best. Day 2 (yesterday) her crop was very full in the morning, so I isolated her in the nursing cage with no food...
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    Ascites

    I noticed one of my girls was being a bit slow. She has not laid for many months and went through a mould about 3 months ago. I felt her belly and it was clearly distended so decided to try to drain her. I withdrew about 30ml of fluid and then let it drain naturally, which it did for a good...
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    Egg trouble - possible lash or something else?

    Hi I've had many lash eggs from hens over the years. Most are the yellow cheesy type, varying in size and like a cooked egg mass (hardened puss). One of my hens, about 3.5 years old, stopped playing a few weeks ago. She's very active, no crop issues, loves her food, however she is thin and her...
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    Clicking when breathing.

    I picked up one of my girls today because I noticed she was a bit slower than usual and I thought it might be her feet (which get muck trapped in the flaps of skin between her toes). She started panting and a clicking sound was coming from her body (not her mouth). She did say one point shake...
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    Thin shelled eggs and other oddities

    I've read a lot about thin shelled eggs and have had quite a few of them in the past. In all but one case, it was a lack of enough calcium which I simply supplemented their feed. They did have oyster shell but some just wouldn't eat it. Only one hen had a problem that never resolved however she...
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    Anyone know what this is - lump over eye?

    I noticed this yesterday. Not seen it before. She's behaving completely normally but has this whitish swelling over her right eye. It looks like a blister. Nothing else on her so don't know if it's an injury or not. Certainly no other swellings or lumps anywhere else. Do you know what it is...
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    Eye change

    Nella's eye has a bit of a change. She's old - 7+ and has some issues where she can not walk for a couple of days very well. I believe she was vaccinated against Marek's so I'm doubting it's that. Her other eye is perfect. This one does react to light and the pupil gets small if I shine a...
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    Soft shell egg broken inside but 2 days later she's quite subdued

    One of our new rescue hens was acting strangely on Wednesday. I noticed her crop was full of liquid so assumed the start of sour crop and brought her in and put her in a cage. Whilst there, she did some fairly unpleasant poops, one of which had a small tube hanging out. This was a soft shell...
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    Comb issue - newly rescued battery hens

    2 weeks ago, we rescued 9 battery hens. They were in poor shape - mid molt and mostly bare skin. As usual their combs were very light pink and large, which I have been told is because they are kept in very hot enclosures. Our weather has changed over the last week and we have had 2 days where...
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    6 year old can't walk - appetite good, still pooping

    Nella is over 6 years old and a little Ameraucana. She couldn't stand up yesterday at all, so I guessed it might be a stuck egg pressing on the sciatic nerve (had that before). Gave her a warm bath in Epsom Salts and a half a TUMS. Put her to bed and thought that might be the last I saw of...
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    I would be grateful if anyone can give me some answers and closure - sudden death

    Hi My Red Sexlink rescue hen, Scarlett died suddenly on Good Friday. There was no warning. Context: she was 5 years old and an amazing layer - laid for 2 years solid before moulting the last time in November. She layed her last egg on the 5th April and stopped laying. I tried to see if she...
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    Soft shell - need to kick-start shell forming

    Nella is six and a half but is still laying nearly every day, however she's laying shell-less eggs. She got doughy crop and I successfully treated her (link here). She's fine but since having the crop issue, she's not layed a shelled egg. Annoyingly, it is causing another issue. She lays it...
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    Doughy crop issue

    I have dealt with sour and impacted crops but never doughy crop. Nella, our little Ameraucana, has recently developed a doughy crop. I noticed this yesterday. She had been her normal active self two days before but yesterday spent a lot of time just standing around for most of the day...
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    Tiny lash eggs (at least I think they are)

    Scarlett is a sexlink hen we rescued just over 3 years ago. She has been an amazing layer and didn't moult for nearly 2 years. In October, she started to moult and grew a complete set of new feathers by early December. She was fairly low for a while but has now picked up and is active and...
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