Good Evening, I’m hoping that some people are still up and on the thread, it’s 10:30 pm where I live. I have a hen that is either egg bound or has water belly. I originally thought for sure it was Egg Bound because she’s laid some massive eggs this week and then a “shell-less” egg where it was...
I just had our 3rd hen die of the same thing in 4 months. So I cut her open after she died, all 3 hens got an impacted crop and her gizzard was impacted. I finally worked up the nerve to do more than just check the crop after they died. I didn’t find anything that looked like it would have...
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In the last few months we’ve had 2 chickens have to be put down and now a third has the same issue. I’m just waiting for the vet to open to see if we can get her an appointment to be put down… what happens is their crop gets really hard and full, but you can still somewhat move it...
I have several other threads for this hen, but I was worried that no one will see my newest response since it’s been a few days since I posted. I ended up taking my hen Charlotte to the vet and because she had diarrhea and we’d already lost our hen Evelyn to the same symptoms the vet tested her...
I just posted about my hen Charlotte last week, we thought maybe she needed to be dewormed but now she is showing signs of whatever our little hen Evelyn had and we ended up having to cull her because she was slowly starving. No one could seem to pinpoint what it was and everyone else seemed...
Hi, we have a little Easter egger named Charlotte that I’ve asked questions about before. She gets bubbles in her eye and her ear is swollen on that same side. We treated her with everything that was advised on BYC and it never went away but she acted normal. We live in FL and my girls are free...
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Last Monday we had to finally cull our little hen Evelyn, after 2+ weeks of her having an impacted crop then sour crop, then impacted again. We never could get it to go back to normal and she was slowly starving. My question is this, can fermented feed cause crop issues? Or seeds...
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We have a little hen named Evelyn 🥰 she’s a really small little Easter egger, she usually weighs about 3 lbs on a good day though she’s lost some weight due to this ongoing issue. About 2 weeks ago we were treating our chickens for mites and so we had to catch even our speedy littlest...
Good morning! ☀️ I have posted about my girl Charlotte a number of times for this same issue, this may be a little long because I’m trying to give the full picture of what we’ve tried 😅. She has a swollen ear and she gets bubbles in her eye on and off, she also seems to have rubbed off a lot of...
Hi, we have a hen that I had asked about that may have MG, that med finally came and I will be starting her 5 day treatment today. Is MG contagious? I don’t remember the long name, just that everyone always puts (MG) for the abbreviation. I ask because another of my hens had watery, bloody stool...
Hi, we have a little Easter Egger Charlotte. Last year right around this time (I think earlyJune last year) she had a swollen ear and her eye swelled shut. We tried everything, we asked for advice here, but we didn’t realize her ear was swollen until someone asked us in the thread and we...
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One of our favorite girls, Elliott, didn’t come out of the coop this morning and I found her in the corner. We took her out and checked her over, everything looks fine but she’s breathing a little heavy. We looked in her mouth and there seemed to be mucus in the back but that’s the only...
This is Charlotte, she is a little Easter egger. I just went out to their coop and was holding her and realized that her eye is goopy and she’s keeping it closed. She also seems to be missing some feathers down that side of her neck but I see not sign of injuries and I haven’t seen her fighting...
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We have 6 laying hens and I’m about to give them fresh pumpkin from when our kids carved pumpkins last night. It’s just the seeds and “innards”. We also have 4 chicks, they are about 5.5 weeks old and mostly feathered already, they aren’t in the same area as our hens but I thought I would...
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We just had a hurricane come through our area (FL) and now after I’ve put the girls back in their coop they are being swarmed by mosquitoes every night. There are so many that two nights we’ve put them back in the crates they were in during the storm and put them in the garage to get them...
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We currently have 6 hens that are about 6-7 months old. They get along for the most part, we do have one that is definitely the top of the pecking order and she does peck at some others at times. I’ve read horror stories about chickens being scalped and pecked mercilessly when added to a...
I have had posts where I didn’t get a response so pardon my all caps… I just wanted to make sure it got seen 😄.
I have a sweet hen named Elliott that is being picked on by our two biggest hens (who are kinda mean to everyone and I’m about ready to rehome them, but they go after her the most). I...
I’m sorry that I don’t have better pictures, trying to hold my chicken and take a picture of her feet at the same time was interesting 😅. So all our chickens legs and feet look great except Betty, she’s got these weird black things where it looks like the skin broke open and black is coming out...
Hi, our chickens, well pullets, are about 14 weeks old and neither my DH or I have had chickens since we were kids/teens so we don’t remember much… our girls are not overly active, they lay around a lot and I guess I just pictured them moving around most of the day. We have them in their covered...
Hi, we are pretty new to chickens and our pullets are almost 14 weeks old 😄. This is Betty White and she seems to have a scab on her crow. I’ve been watching the girls (we have 6 hens) and no one seems to be messing with her, I’m thankful for that! But I wasn’t sure what I should do to treat it...