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    Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride dosage

    Hi everyone, I am hoping someone can help me out here. It has started getting cold and the cursed Autumn respiratory infections have started - it happens every year and is a right pain. One hen is getting a gurgle and sneezing so she needs to be treated quickly before it can get any worse. In...
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    Looking eggbound after laying egg

    Hi everyone, this one has me stumped - I can’t find a single piece of information online so thought I would come to my brains trust. I have a girl that started laying eggs a couple of months ago - everything leading up to laying is fine, behaviour perfectly normal and she lays her eggs just...
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    Gizzard impaction - X-ray confirmed. How to proceed?

    I have a 6 m old silkie pullet that had coccidiosis and has been treated. I look her to the vet today for an X-ray looking for a tumor or another blockage as her crop will not empty and a mass can be felt in her lower abdomen. This girl has a massive gizzard impaction full of grit, her crop is...
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    Sick pullet, tiny vent - constipation?

    Hi everyone, I would love some advice on this if anyone had experienced something similar. I am battling coccidiosis at the moment that seems to be resistant to amprolium. One of my silkie pullets (6m old) looked off so I brought her into the house for a check over. Her crop is doughy, I did a...
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    Mothball breath

    I was wondering if anyone here has come across one any of their flock having mothball smelling breath before. I know it sounds odd - but it smells close to identical and is coming from the beak/nares. I lost a hen recently to a heart attack while recovering from a lower respiratory infection and...
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    Advice on care for lower respiratory infection? Any advice really appreciated

    Hi everyone, I would desperately love some help with treating my sweet girls - any advice would be appreciated! My 2 yo silkie bantam was broody and when I brought her inside to break her noticed that she was quite ill. Below are the symptoms she had and the treatment I have done because I...
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    Opinions - egg bound or stopped laying?

    Hi everyone - I would love some opinions on my little situation with a chicken named Poo - sorry it’s long but I wanted to give you all the information. Poo is a 8-10mth old silkie bantam and was recently introduced to the rest of the silkie flock (one week ago). She and her buddies had been...
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    Lesions on body - fowl pox?

    Hi everyone, I have a hen that is poorly. I gave her a check over this arvo and found brown lesions all over her rear area from vent to thighs. They vary in size from pin point to pea/grape size. There are some white areas of skin where some may have been or are going to come through. She has...
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    Can chickens have allergies?

    Hi everyone, Trying to figure out what is going on with one of my girls and her chronic recurring eye infection in her left eye. Long story short - if she gets down to the run with everyone else she has a massive inflammatory reaction in the left eye and needs surgery to remove the pus pockets...
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    Emergency help! Chick bleeding prolapse vent

    Hi everyone, It is 1 in the morning and hubby just woke me up because he could hear one of the chicks in the kitchen. I checked it out and it has a large prolapse that is bleeding so I am guessing the others have been pecking it. It is a 3 day old bantam they all had clean butts before I went...
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    Large lump in crop / crop abscess

    Hey everyone - this one is already diagnosed, but I am posting because this has me stumped and it took a vet to figure out what is going on. I rescued some girls a while ago and one has always been a little poorly - thin, slow, sour crop problems, etc - but otherwise healthy. She was introduced...
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    Hen with mass in eye - cyst? Cancer?

    My hen has had an army of problems over the last 6 months that have all been treated by an avian vet - but even they are stumped on this one. This chookie had a very sudden inflammation of the whole eye (overnight), it was weeping and hot to the touch. This part of the infection was treated...
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    Impacted crop - movable rectangular lumpy mass

    Hi everyone, I was wondering if any of you have experienced an impacted crop like this before because it is a first for me. I noticed one of my hens doing a lot of crop adjusting so I chased her down and found her crop has a very solid rectangular lumpy mass in it, about the same size as my...
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    Ever had a baby chick squat?

    I know this question sounds weird but stay with me :) I have 3.5 week old chicks and am in the process of hand training them - on about day 5. It’s going well and they are settled and happy running around out of the brooder and jumping all over me, but I have one that will do a full on pol squat...
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    Necropsy - impacted gizzard?

    I did my first necropsy on a hen today and from what I could see - everything looked very healthy except the gizzard. At first I thought it was an egg - it was solid as a rock. Once open I saw it was full of hay and grass - some hay pieces being very thick and there was minimal grit visible...
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    Cured - Diarrhoea, undigested food in droppings, straining to poop

    Hi everyone, I am not looking for help - but am making this post to help anyone that experienced the same problems I did with a hen. One of my silkie hens went broody and was given eggs to hatch. She developed an impacted crop (because it finally rained here and the grass stared to grow), then...
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    Cyst in crop?

    Hi everyone - just wondering if anyone has dealt with a cyst in or right next to the crop before? It is a semi hard mass that can be manipulated and gives slightly when gently pressed. Yesterday it was marble size/shape, today slightly bigger. At first I was questioning if she has eaten...
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    Gritty urates inside vent/cloaca - anyone experienced this?

    Hi everyone, I just got back from the vet for one of my sick chooks and they said that she had (suspected) urates that had solidified/crystallized stuck inside her cloaca/vent. I have never heard of this happening before, do any of you have any experience with this? The vet report is below...
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    Rooster sour crop - crying when poops

    I have a 1 year old silkie rooster (MaBoi) who suddenly came down with sour crop 2 days ago. Absolutely no warning signs - perfectly happy and healthy one day. Not moving, massive soft leaking crop the next. He has been put in isolation and I am giving him 2ml nilstat daily along with ACV and...
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    How am I killing my flock?!

    Hi everyone, Any help with this will be amazing. I keep silkies and love them to pieces - the are a part of the family, they are showered with affection, spoiled rotten and (so I thought) cared for very well. Over the last 2 months they have all been having problems that have been treated...
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