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    Lame chicken not bumblefoot

    Hello. My 1 year old isa brown is limping. Her left leg is not holding her weight. The “toes” splay out and she walks like she has foot drop (a condition in humans with spine issues). I palpated the leg and foot to see if I could feel something unusual. She has no apparent injury to the leg and...
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    String in feces

    Hello, my 20 month old Australorp hen has a pale string in her 2 most recent poops. I posted two pictures. She is otherwise eating, drinking and alert. The string is the consistency of a partially cooked thin spaghetti strand. Is this something she ate or is a worm of some sort?
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    Hen humming on breath in and breath out

    Hello everyone! Ruby, our 1 year old Golden Wyandotte hen started making this sound two days ago very occaisionally. I didin't think too much about it because it stopped. I was unable to spend time with the girls yesterday but my husband did not remark on anything unusual. Today she is doing it...
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    Male or female????

    Ok Folks! This is bizarre: my 3 year old ISA Brown hen has always been alpha. I assume she has layed eggs but as I have 10, I never see her actually lay the egg. She has frequently jumped atop her "friends" and acted like she was mating. I read that this can be normal and thought no more about...
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    When Euthanasia is Inevitable

    Beatrice, a beautiful 10 month old Plymouth Rock hen, was gently euthanized yesterday. We fought the fight to keep her alive for 11 days. We focused our efforts on what we could do that MIGHT help her to get better. We based our treatments on the symptoms we could observe. We did not have an...
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    Sick hen maybe coccidosis? Impacted crop??

    Hello. Remember Beatrice of the egg bound hen thread? Well If you check back on that, you will see that we had a successful outcome. We put her back with the girls on the 26th. On the 27th we noticed her being lethargic, puffed up and hunching, not eating or drinking. I took her to the isolation...
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    Bound egg

    Dear Friends, Merry Christmas to you! My hen, Beatrice, has a bound egg. She began being lethargic yesterday and ate little. I checked her crop and it was fine. She was defecating as well. This morning, I checked her vent carefully using coconut oil as lubricant. I noted that she wasn't making...
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    Coccidiosis after antibiotic treatment?

    My poor rooster Stanley. We just finished treating him with a round of antibiotics for his foot access (healed now) but he is lethargic, hunching, his legs have lost yellow pigment and I have to encourage him to eat. His crop is not impacted or squishy. His poops are normal. I wonder if a...
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    Poo Boards

    Hello! I have had my chickens and coop for nearly 3 years and used various methods for cleaning up their droppings such as picking it up by hand daily, deep littler, a large wooden board under the roost. . . We make compost from the droppings by adding it to our bin with "brown" matter. I...
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    Oral antibiotic aspiration

    Dear friends, It has been some time since I last posted. Some of you may recall Stanley, our one-eyed rooster. He is now about 32 weeks old. 3 weeks ago he began limping and we could not determine anything apparently wrong with his leg or foot. He kept on limping but was eating and pooping just...
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    Super bully

    Our 2 1/2 year old ISA Brown hen (Ollie) has suddenly become a super predator to all the other hens except the one she grew up with, Greta. We have two 2 1/2 year old ISA Browns and six 22 week Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks. As soon as Ollie emerges from the coop into the run in the morning she...
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    Galvanised water buckets?

    Hello! I have been using galvanised water buckets for my 10 chicken flock for a year. It has been so easy really, to fill the scattered buckets in the run and fenced yard with the hose. I freshen them up in the afternoon if it is hot. During the freezing months, I put them on an automatic heater...
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    Slow or Sour Crop

    Hello friends! My sweet little 2 1/2 year old hen, Greta, has a watery squishy crop. We first saw this yesterday evening. She is lethargic and her crown is droopy. I picked her up to take her to our isolation pen and brownish but clear liquid started coming out of her beak. I tilted her head...
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    Stanley, our Wimpy one-eyed cockerel

    IMG_0422 by Carolrich posted Jul 8, 2018 at 8:35 AM I talked about Stanley here on BYC when I first got him. He was 11 weeks old and shortly after we got him, he developed an eye infection. Long story short, per our vet, he was treated with antibiotics (two 10 day rounds) but lost his left eye...
  15. Carolrich

    Abilities of chickens!

    I wasn't sure which forum was appropriate for this post. So here it goes: This excerpt is from a 97 page academic paper about chicken thinking. At the end of this excerpt, I will post the link to the article. I am so amazed! Chickens possess a number of visual and spatial capacities, arguably...
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    To Use? Or not to use? Diatomaceous Earth

    Hello! I have been using food grade DE with my hens for 2+ years. I have added in to their feed and sprinkled it in their coop and nest boxes. They have been very healthy. They free range often and mostly take their dirt baths in the woods or in piles of peat moss we have around for the gardens...
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    One eyed rooster

    hello! I have a 13 to 14 week old rooster (barred rock) who lost his left eye due to an infection. (We went to a vet and he was on antibiotics, drops and oral for around 20 days .We kept him separated from the rest of the flock.) The infection is gone but his left eye is gone. I am beginning to...
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