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    Poorly hen

    A friends hen has suddenly had very runny poops, she is acting a little slower than usual. She’s eating but not huge amounts, he’s checked for an impacted crop and bathed her to see if she’s egg bound. What could this be?
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    Cockerel with scaly face skin

    My cockerel, John, has suddenly come up with very pale, dry skin around his eyes and beak. He doesn’t seem poorly, he’s eating well and feels fairly plump. I couldn’t find anything online that described his condition. I thought it could be scaly leg but his feet are normal. We do have red mite...
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    Chicks leg sticking out but not splay leg!

    We've got around 100 meat chicks at the moment, they are a few weeks old and are starting to grow feathers. My mum found a chick yesterday whose leg was sticking out at a 70° angle, it's in pain so it's not putting any weight on it & can still bend it so it lies down a lot. I'm pretty sure it's...
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    Raising meat birds & leg injuries

    I often post about injuries and diseases on here because I find that this is the best place for it, we're a family farm who have, in the last two years, started raising meat birds to sell. We've noticed with a certain breed that the young cockerels will have a leg injury, one day they'll be fine...
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    Chicks legs paralysed suddenly?

    At the moment I’m raising three flocks of meat birds, and the breed we were given seems to be wrong. I noticed one of my chicks wasn’t running away when I went near her and her legs seem to not work. I got her in and have been feeding her as normal, I researched that she could have mareks...
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    Chick nearly drowned!!

    One of my chicks must have jumped in the water drinker when I was gone, when I went to shut them all in I saw her and thought she was dead. I picked her up and she’s still breathing! I immediately held her upside down to get any fluid out of her lungs and a bit came out, I then performed mouth...
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    Help!! Chicken has gone down hill over night!!!

    One of my hens who I’ve been treating for a small wound has suddenly developed a purple looking comb and is uncomfortable when I pick her up. I’ve had her in my Avery for a couple weeks just cleaning and looking after the small wound, it’s finally healed up and there’s only a tiny scar of where...
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    Duck with swollen foot!

    One of my ducks has been battling with swelling on her feet for months now, we have used all sorts of methods; poultices, epsom salt baths, massaging, antibiotics, but nothing seems to work. There is often a head on the lump but sometimes the lump will disappear and come up on the other foot. At...
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    Impacted crop?

    One of my warrens caught my eye this morning as she was standing upright with her backend tucked under her, and her neck moving in sharp and fast motions. When I picked her up she didnt panic (this is unusual for her) and I noticed her crop was very big, I felt it and it was rock hard. I tried...
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    Blind chicken? Mareks disease? HELP!

    My hen who I’ve had since she was a chick has always had really tiny pupils, I always wondered if she was blind and I’ve only started noticing that she has a little trouble seeing. Mainly her perspective is off. I searched this up and it told me about mareks disease and how I’d have to put her...
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    Chicken's reactions are slow and shes getting thin! please help!

    Recently we had to get the flock in because of bird flu and they're inside, i noticed my only silky is looking very poorly and isn't eating a lot. At first I thought it was bird flu because we're looking out for that the most but she doesn't have a swollen head. Yesterday I went to pick her up...
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    Swollen and hot duck foot?

    Yesterday morning I let my ducks out and everyone was fine but later on in the afternoon one of my girls was limping, she could put a bit of pressure on her right foot but was still waddling. I looked at both feet and saw that there was a callus of some sort on it so i treated it with animal...
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    Broody Hen on eggs that won’t hatch

    My hen, Mildred, has been sitting for 21 days on eggs that aren’t going to hatch. At first we were excited because she could be our first mum to hatch her own but then she pecked and ate an unfertilised egg (I guess it’s better than it exploding). She won’t stop being broody until she hatches...
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    Swollen toe and Black Comb

    My cockerel, Charlie, has recently been limping but very lightly (it was barely noticeable). And I saw that he has a swollen toe, it’s a bit hard to the touch and is quite large. I have no idea what it is. I’ve also noticed that the tips of his comb have gone very dark recently, almost black. So...
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    Chicken puffing up feathers at cockerel.

    Recently one of my hens (Snowy) has started to fluff her feathers up at one of our cockerels, Larry. She makes herself really big and clucks whenever he comes near her, then he chases her until she’s out of reach. This has happened before and he ended up bullying her so we had to separate her...
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    Help!

    My chicken who is quite old, has just come out of her coop with a large lump on the side of her neck. I picked her up as recently she had hurt her feet so I check on her regularly, and the lump moves from side to side. My mum helped and gently messaged her neck to see if it was a knot in her...
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