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    Frantic hen, I’m at a loss

    For starters, no she doesn’t need to lay. I know how she behaves when she needs to lay, and this is not it. I’ve asked about this before on here but it’s been about a year now, and this behavior comes and goes. It makes me feel terrible because she looks so hungry, willing to eat everything...
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    Should I use antibiotics on the whole flock?

    I have a hen (1 1/2 year old bantam Cochin) who suddenly last week went to lay an egg, instead spewed nasty green diarrhea, and hasn’t been right since. She has been to the vet twice, worms and bacteria. I worked the flock, she is on amoxicillin. She went back to normal but then down hill again...
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    9 month old died quick, confounding necropsy report

    Hello! Today, out of the blue, one of my 9 month old jerseys became very sick. Panting, then extreme lethargy, and then she died 30 minutes later. Yesterday, she was fine. I took her to my vet for a necropsy and she had a laceration on her liver, leading her to bleed out internally. My question...
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    Newly hatched chick gasping, bubbles and drippy nose

    I have a chick that hatched this morning at around 7, the only one that survived. It’s now 1pm and she can’t really walk still and I’ve noticed she looks like she is regurgitating, and then she will gasp. This is odd because she hasn’t eaten or drank anything yet. I held her for a moment earlier...
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    Pine pellets/sawdust for chicks?

    one of my hens is hatching some new chicks and I want her to raise them in the coop/run with the others. The runs have pine pellets hosed down into a fluffy sawdust, but it isn’t exactly fine dust. I’m wondering if this will be alright for chicks? I have one run that’s mostly dirt, if the...
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    10 month old hen acting strange

    This started about 5-ish days ago and new behavior seems to be popping up every day. It’s just one hen, about 10 months, a mystery breed. Normally, she is great layer, very active and loud, a piggy. But five days ago she stopped laying and about 3 days ago, she’s been going to bed with a small...
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    Wet environment and diarrhea

    So, we’ve been having a lot of rain recently, and then Milton hit and flooded everything. The chickens runs and a lot of their free range area has been flooded since last Wednesday, so they’ve been free ranging all day every day since then. For the past couple of days I’ve been noticing wetter...
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    6 week old chicks intestinal lining

    I’ve made some posts about what’s been going on in my flock recently, and now that most of it is over, I’m having concerns about my two chicks. A quick recap: two weeks ago, my chickens started shedding a lot of intestinal lining with some blood. The older chickens recovered, but my mama hen...
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    Sudden illness, blood in bright green, slimy poop

    I posted a few days ago about my concerns with the intestinal linings and small blood globs in my chickens poop. Everything seemed to be Ok, nothing serious, until this morning. Out of nowhere, my one mama hen (who is also mid molt) was acting very sick, and had blood in her poop, which is...
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    A few issues in the flock

    Hello! About a week ago I made a post about red globs and intestinal lining in poop. After that, a few more birds had intestinal lining and no more red globs. I had a fecal float done that came back negative for worms or cocci, but I decided to worm anyways since it may not have shown up. About...
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    Intestinal lining two nights in a row. Just finished a corid round

    Hello! I’ve got a chicken who I’ve noticed to be acting a bit off. I know she is going through her first molt, so I assumed that was the reason. She isn’t acting sick, exactly, but doesn’t walk around too much and spends all day preening. She still eats and drinks, not super enthusiastic about...
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    Molting hen not acting normal

    Hello! I’ve got three hens at 1 1/4 years old. One hatched eggs a month ago and instantly went into a molt; she’s acting fine, busy with the chicks. One hasn’t started yet, and it’s the third, Rachel, that is acting off. About a week ago I noticed that her feathers were looking raggedy. Then I...
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    Cocci question

    So I found a regular poop with a tiny amount of red goop on it. So far, that’s it. Other chickens have various kinds of poop from liquidy/mucusy to grassy to normal; I was writing off the liquidy poops because of the extreme heat and humidity. Do you think this is coccidioses? Should I treat or...
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    Pullet empty-ish crop, slower growth, smaller than others

    Hello! I have four 41/2 month old jersey giants. They’ve all been doing well, getting heavier, one started laying, another squats. But one of them never seems to have much food in her crop. She eats, I see her gobble it down with the rest of them, but she does shy away sometimes. I’ve never...
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    Mother hen not eating, empty crop

    Hello! My Cochin hatched three eggs a week and three days ago, and for the first four/five days she seemed to be eating well and pooping big, broody-like poops. But then she stopped eating as much, giving everything to the little ones. Her crop is empty most of the day and her poops are less...
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    Hen with purple comb

    I’ve got a 1 and two month old blue Andalusian who gets a purple comb on the back and tips. (Pics included, but it looks darker in person). It isn’t all day, just usually in the evening when she’s moving around a lot more. I wasn’t too concerned at first because she has a pretty big comb, but...
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    One chick won’t come out from under hen

    I’ve got three two day old chicks. Two of them come out often to eat and drink, but one (smallest) practically never comes out. When the hen stands and displaces it, it will peck around a bit but not much, preen a bit, and then instantly go back under. Is this normal?
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    Is this egg dead?

    Hello! This little guy was moving a few days ago and I went to do one last check (day 18) and he’s not looking too alive anymore. I can’t see any veins, only bloody looking spots; no movement (today, the other three eggs all moved into position and he hasn’t). Now I’m noticing the air sac is...
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    Is this egg dead?

    Hello! This little guy was moving a few days ago and I went to do one last check (day 18) and he’s not looking too alive anymore. I can’t see any veins, only bloody looking spots; no movement (today, the other three eggs all moved into position and he hasn’t). Now I’m noticing the air sac is...
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    How often should I change up the worming meds

    Hello! My flock had round worm back in early April and I wormed them with safeguard. Well, it’s been very hot and wet this summer and I found a pile of cecal poop with round worms in it. So clearly, it’s time to worm again. My question is, should I still use safeguard or something else? I know...
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