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    Hen Wheezing [please help :( ]

    It's been a while since I've posted here but here goes: Today (just a few minutes ago) I noticed one of my hens open-mouthed breathing. I can hear her wheezing (slightly) and she can't cluck like she used to. Otherwise ravenous appetite as usual but she doesn't seem to want to drink water. She...
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    Northern Fowl Mites/Red Mites are Ticking Me Off

    I've been fighting these for over a year now. DE doesn't work. Permethrin doesn't work. Vitamins don't work. Bathing doesn't work. Sevin doesn't work. I've been dusting nearly every week. I'm worried about my cats because Permethrin is highly toxic to them. One of my chickens has water belly...
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    Hens with Bloody Behinds--Help!!

    Hi all, So last year was a hard year in chicken keeping for me--I lost one of my hens to water belly and I had my first encounter with mites. I've been battling them for a long time. Anyway, I think I got rid of them, but unfortunately, I didn't check my ladies for mites afterwards as much as I...
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    Black Sex Link losing feathers

    Hi, I just have a question. I live in Utah, is it normal for a young hen to be losing her feathers this late in the year? She just has a lot of new feather shafts all over her body, so they're not really growing back, but she seems happy and healthy otherwise. Am I missing something in their...
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    You Guessed it--More chicken problems!!

    *internal screaming* SO. Back again. Here's the situation. I was doing my ladies this evening and I've been keeping an eye on my oldest RIR, Fire, since she has not been eating, but today she was eating fine, her crop was pretty full, etc. I always put my ear next to their heads to check...
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    Should I Cull my Hen?

    This year has not been a good chicken year for me. I've had a hen die early, and I'm fighting mites. On top of it all, my oldest hen Ash is getting very old and has an abcess/bump on her face right next to her eyeball. (If anyone could tell me what that is, I'd really appreciate it.) She has...
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    Howdy! Simmons Homestead here!

    Hey everyone! I actually joined a few months ago, but never got around to introducing myself. So now's the time! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Well, sort of. I've had two flocks, both of four, and combined them to make one flock of eight. I first got chickens...
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    My Ladies have Mites?

    So today I was out feeding the girls and after I was done, I noticed three small, dark-colored bugs on my arm. I'd held one of my ladies, but they've never had mites before since they have a nice, big area to dust-bathe. (But I have recently cleaned out and added new dirt to this area, and I...
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    Does my hen have Ascites?

    So a few weeks ago, I lost one of my hens to ascites while I was draining her. I've gotten paranoid and have started feeling my other hens daily for it. Yesterday, I noticed that one of my Black Sex Links, Sirius, was a bit big in the back but so was Ash, my other Sex Link. Ash is very old and...
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    Please Help! My hen is very sick!

    So a few weeks ago my Rhode Island Red hen, Ginger, started acting weird. She wasn't as energetic as usual, and she was shaking her head a lot. I checked for lice, mites, etc.(didn't find anything), and thought that she might have coccidiosis, so I got some medicine and gave her a bath. She...
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