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    Unknown respiratory issue in chicken

    Hello, My oldest chicken is about 7 years old and a couple of years ago, we noticed her losing her voice. No other changes whatsoever, except now when she vocalises, it sounds squeaky, like she's lost her voice. It is only in the last couple of months that I have noticed sometimes her breathing...
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    Is this scaly leg mites?

    Hello, need some other opinions - do you think my chicken has scaly leg mites? I am also aware her nails seem quite long, which is odd as she doesn't have any trouble scratching/foraging, but I am ordering some nail clippers to deal with that. Thank you
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    Chicken crouch walking and unsure why?

    Hello, I have a chicken who has recently started having random bouts of crouch-walking - not like an eggbound waddle or struggling in any way, she literally looks like she is ducking under some invisible object which isn’t there. It’s only occasional and lasts around 10-20 seconds, and she walks...
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    Can I put my chicken down with painkillers?

    One of our hens has been very ill lately and the vet suspected she has cancer. We thought she was definitely going to pass a few days ago, but she is still alive today - she keeps improving and then declining again. None of us are prepared to do the classic method of putting down a chicken. We...
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    Chicken leaks out of bum

    So a few months ago one of our rescue chickens got your typical diarrhoea. All of her other behaviours were normal - laying eggs fine, eating, drinking, socialising etc. - so we had hoped it would sort itself out. We did try a few antibiotics at the beginning I think, but they didn't seem to...
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    Sick Chicken hates being touched, how to treat her?

    We rescued some chickens a couple of months ago from an egg farm. One of them has always been particularly bullied - she has a bare back and bottom and is constantly pecked at. She also HATES us - we have had chickens that don't like being picked up before, but she is on another level. She runs...
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    Need saddle recommendations for bullied hen!

    We recently rescued some egg farm hens, one of which was totally bald on the back. After they settled in and moulted, the feathers started to grow back, but it wasn't long before the rest of the girls started plucking at the bald one again, and now she looks just as bald as ever. I am looking...
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    Chicken is leaking out of bum, help!

    CONTEXT: recently 2 of our chickens died, leaving one hen, so we rescued 3 more chickens to keep her company. The 3 new girls have been settling in okay, aside from being bullied by the old hen, which we are trying to work on. They are not all laying yet - maybe one or two of them, but we are...
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    Only one chicken left - what to do?

    We started out with 3 chickens (we have had them for several years), until one died earlier this year from EYP and we recently found another dead in the coop after being away on a trip. This means we only have one chicken left, who was at the bottom of the pecking order. We intend to hopefully...
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    Chicken has vent issues, could it be serious?

    One of my chickens has seemed to have diarrhoea on and off ever since we got her 3 years ago. She has never had any other health issues and is fine in every other department. However for the past few months her diarrhoea has been constant, and her droppings basically look like half-digested...
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    Can I wash a dying chicken??

    Hi, One of my chickens has been suffering from egg yolk peritonitis for a while now. Despite our efforts, our vet has told us that she will most likely have to be put down - which we are planning to do soon :( She struggles to walk and lay down and is clearly in pain. I have noticed she doesn’t...
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    Why does my hen's back feathers look like this?

    My head hen is usually a creamy white colour, but her bum feathers look absolutely horrible. She has had similar issues in the past but they usually clear up on their own, however I have never seen her look this bad. Physically, she's fine - fat, eats and drinks plenty, runs around - but her...
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    Hen laid ABNORMAL egg after not laying for weeks

    I am very concerned about my hen. She has had awful dirty vent feathers, that are patchy/sparse, for a few weeks. At first we thought it might be diarrhoea, as she gets it often, but she stopped laying and the feathers got worse. We thought it may be mites, but mite powder has made no...
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    My chicken lost feathers in an attack and still hasn't healed - is this normal?

    About a year ago, one of our chickens had a nasty run in with a fox. It didn't manage to get her, but it ripped out all of her lovely bum feathers so her backside has been raw and featherless for a while. However, a year later and after a molting season, her feathers still haven't grown back...
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    Chicken with a runny nose?

    I've seen threads for this before, but I'm still a little unsure. One of our 3 chickens seems to have had a slightly runny nose for the past 2-3 days or so. She eats, sleeps, drinks, clucks and does everything normally, although the outsides of her nostrils have started to seem a little wet...
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    Chicken pecks/'bullies' other chicken?

    We have 3 lovely chickens but over the past month or so, our white chicken, Baby, has started to peck our black chicken, Granola, whenever they eat from the same spot. It only happens maybe once a day or once every other day, so we thought maybe Baby was just establishing dominance or being a...
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    Chicken making strange noises

    I wasn't sure whether to put this on the injuries forum, because I'm not sure if it's an actual problem or if I'm overreacting, haha. Whenever my blacktail chicken clucks/crows/makes chicken sounds, it always sounds a little raspy, as if she's losing her voice. Any quiet sounds she makes come...
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    How do I help my chickens relax when being handled?

    3 weeks ago, my family got our first chickens (3 little crazy angels!) and in the last week, we've started trying to pet/handle/pick them up more, so that they can get used to bonding with us. None of them really like being stroked and need a good bit of wrangling and sunflower seeds to actually...
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