Hello y'all - I've got a hen with a swollen face and bubbly eyes. I noticed one bubbly eye yesterday, and hoped it was just eye irritation. Unfortunately, today both are bubbly + her face is swollen. After researching, I'm thinking it's probably mycoplasma.
If possible, I'd like to avoid going...
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Unfortunately one of my four year old chickens passed last night. After I'd noticed her slowing down a bit and getting some poop stuck to her tail feathers (not diarrhea, but definitely not normal for her) I took her into the vet. We tested for parasites alongside having her undergo...
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Unfortunately today I had to cull one of my hens as she wasn't doing well (I suspected EYP or a tumor due to a mass that had slowly formed and wasn't in a place where I was able to justify spending a ton of money on a single chicken) and used the broomstick method. I did find that I was...
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TLDR: Hen was lethargic last Saturday; had yellowish diarrhea going into brown diarrhea. Treated 3 days with fenbendazole before vet. Diarrhea stopped, fecal test negative for parasites/coccidia. Chicken still lethargic and has not laid. Took her to vet. Vet felt egg in her (had to...
Purchased from a local farm store as barred rocks - I was thinking they're both boys due to the redness of their combs (especially Chick 1) but I wanted to double check before I looked into rehoming them. 5.5 weeks old at time of pictures being taken.
Chick 1 on the left, Chick 2 on the...
Hello! Fairly new chicken owner here (1.5 years now, I think?) located in the southeast corner of PA with a small flock of 2 Rhode Island Reds (originally 5 - darn foxes, haha) that came with the farm we moved into. Looking to add 2-3 more girls in but haven't had much luck with finding female...