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    Respiratory illness, closed eye, sneezing

    I’ve posted a few times in the past week about being on holiday whilst my in laws dealt with my rapidly dying flock. Local vet is useless but sent chicken off for necropsy. Symptoms are: Shaking heads, sneezing, stretching neck, watery eye, closed eye (tends to be one, not both), rattle when...
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    Pine chips/offcuts/bark(?) in coop

    Hi All, We can get a trailer load of pine offcuts for $10 from the local mill. They take the pine logs and put them through a grader and that removes all of the bark, outsides and whatever to make uniform poles. Would it be ok for the coop? I can see lots on pine shavings but these aren't the...
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    Lost half the flock to Lice/Mites

    I'm not a new chicken keeper but I'm new to sick chickens. Older chickens have lived happily for years. We moved to a new property in mid December. Cleaned out the coop but didn't spray it down or do anything that we (in retrospect) should have done. I'm kicking myself. Just before we moved to...
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    Cocci again?

    Hi All, Vorwerx chicks are approximately 20 weeks. They're in a run with a number of other chickens. When they were about 12 weeks we had cocci go though all the chicks - they were in a separate run then. The ones that got sick died. They have been in the main run for about 4 weeks with no...
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    diarrhoea, lethargic 16 week chook

    Hi All, Can't believe I'm posting another query in EDIC so quickly. I have an approximately 16 week old Cream Legbar. One of our chickens suddenly became lethargic and quiet (she just stands in one spot and doesn't move much). She started getting hassled by the other chickens so I have removed...
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    Hi from Australia

    Hello! I have a small flock of chooks. We are just moving to the south west of Aus to our farm. Just got my first roosters! Looking forward to building my flock. :)
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    Gape work? I can see food in mouth/throat

    Hi all, long time reader, first time poster. I have an approx 1 year old that is either a Australorp or langshan (I cant remember and I’m not sure if it’s relevent). In the past week or two she has lost lots of weight, is drinking lots of water and has been opening her mouth wide. We haven’t...
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