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    Hen flips out when being lowered to ground

    Just wondering if anyone's experienced. We have the runt of the litter and very scared hen who we have to pick up for her bumble feet and poo butt baths quite often. We're wondering if she could have vertigo or what might be going on with her. Any time we go to put her down after picking her...
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    Loose and bare skin under keel?

    I've got 4 year old orpingtons here in New Zealand. Summer has turned hot this past week. 3 of the girls are doing an odd middle of summer moult - losing mainly their tail feathers, some butt around the vent, and one has lost all on the crop, and another is bald under the keel. But also where...
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    One girl with fly strike - anything I can do to see/stop other hens that might also have?

    We're in New Zealand. Our one 4 yr old orpington is at the emergency vet - and we're hoping will pull thru but not confident. It's a bad bad wound. And I've been worried about our other girl that also gets poop stuck to the backside (others are pretty good at cleaning, but they're all have at...
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    We have a 4 year old orpington (with 4 others) not doing so well in the past 48 hours. We're in NZ so summer here. Also just had just had a proper fence put in (about 48 hours ago) so girls have a bit of new area, and wondering if she ate something bad, even though we checked the area and she's...
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    Is this eye med safe for my hens eyes?

    So I bought what I thought was terramycin on amazon for my girls but appears not to be, and I'm not sure it's safe. The listing said it's for pets including birds, but the listing has been taken down and I'm finding the same product with different ingredients on other country's amazon sites...
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    Stumped - thought was broody, maybe impacted crop or vent gleet?

    We have a 4 year old Orpington, runt of the litter, hen who has me stumped. We're in the southern hemisphere, so it's spring here. She eats a high protein meal (17%) and has sometimes random wheat, greens, corn peas, sunflower seeds, scrambled egg or yogurt as treats. She's picky and doesn't...
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    Making prints of your chickens' feet?

    Has anyone had success making either feet prints -either inked or plaster- with their chickens? I've done it for kids, cats, dogs, rabbits as mementos... but not sure what would be safe and easy for chickens? I'm thinking the ink ones are a no go. Cheers!
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    Shell-less egg - no membrane. Do we need to check for stuck membrane?

    Hello, We've got a 3 year old Orpington who is very small compared to the other girls and lowest on the chicken hierarchy. She's had about 3 months of laying shell-less eggs every 2 weeks. But normal-ish eggs the rest of the time (a bit thinner with some calcium deposits). It seemed cyclical...
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    Shell less Eggs and calcium deposits on eggs

    Hiya, We've got a 3 year old lowest on the pecking order (looks like a runt at this point) Orpington hen. She's been laying multiple shell less eggs over night one night last week and last night. Other girls are laying correctly. I understand there's a myriad of reasons for shell less eggs...
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    Egg withholding - can you give to chickens?

    We've been told to give our girls coxiprol to try with an issue we've got and it has a 10 day egg withholding period. I was wondering, can you (cook and) give the chickens their eggs when they're being given coxiprol or other meds they might all be on?
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    She's suddenly decided to be an escape artist and doesn't like her girls

    TLDR; Our oldest and smallest has suddenly decided to fly over her run fence to go digging. I moved their fence out further so she had even more and new areas to dig, but she's decided to just leave as soon as I put her back in the run. Our momma hen was given to use when we got our four...
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    Swollen ears, eye bubbles, red face - in autumn

    Hello everyone - We have 5 Orpingtons 2.5 years old. I'm in New Zealand so molting season is halfway done. We had so much sickness in the flock over summer I was glad everyone seemed to be doing okay ish. Our girl Serena had a day or two of sour crop (others had surgery and months worth)...
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    Is this bumble healing?

    Warning - I've kept the thumbnails small because the wounds are quite gross. One of our girls (2 yr old Orpington blue), had a bumble we thought we took out pretty well. But two weeks later the black plug came back larger, so we soaked for a few days and took it out again and it looked like...
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    Single ongoing eye bubble; anything I should worry about/can try?

    Hi ya'll, I've got one 2+ year old Orpington. She's lowest on the pecking order and very much smaller than her sisters. But, her sisters have had some sort of infection go through the flock from around November until two weeks ago - mainly showing up as sour crop - we also had a few shell less...
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    Canesten/clotrimazole cream for sour crop?

    I've done a bit of a search on the forums but want to double check before dosing - I have a girl who has had two rounds of nystatin and now showing sour crop for the third time in three months. We'll get her to a vet soon (no avian vets on certain days here) - but I want to start her on a...
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    Hens eating too much oyster shell/calcium?

    We're in the height of summer here in New Zealand. I've got 4 orpingtons and one game bantam. All are showing broody bare chests but haven't gone full brood. And all of them are madly chowing down on the freely offered oyster grit. I have one of those inverted wine bottle bird feeders that I...
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    3 hens with sour crop in less than 5 weeks?

    We're going into summer, it's getting hotter each day. And over the past 5 weeks I've had 3 girls sick with sour crop (3rd is in for the night to see if we can get it moving). They're 2 year old Orpingtons (blues and black). Other 2 hens have been fine (well, one had an unrelated reproductive...
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    Nilstat/Nystatin dosage for sour crop?

    Sigh, 3rd (or 4th if we count a bumble foot that got better on it's own) sick chicken in 4 weeks. We have a second girl that's showing signs of impacted/sour crop (more likely bacterial but we'll also treat for fungal) after laying 2 shell less eggs. Yesterday she was acting lethargic and not...
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    Hamburg Parsley / Root Parsley / Parsley Bartowich safe for chickens?

    I have a few huge Hamburg root parsley's (Petroselinum crispum), going to seed in my backyard. Does anyone know if it's safe for chickens? It's in the parsley family, but I don't want to risk something I'm not sure on. Thanks!
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