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    Are Her Toenails the Problem?

    I have a sweet Barred Rock/Rhode Island Red Cross who is almost 8 years old. She is having trouble walking. She limps and stumbles. This has been going on for quite a while. I checked for bumblefoot, but that didn't seem to be the problem. I'm wondering whether I need to trim her toenails...
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    Please Help... How Do I Push Her Prolapsed Uterus Back In?!!!

    Expert chicken friends, Poor Pretty Penny, my ameracauna green egg layer, has a prolapsed uterus! I'm not sure how old she is, but she's over 4. What next! I've tried gently pushing it back in. The first time after I did so, she laid an egg, so I gave her another bath and pushed it in again, but...
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    7 3/4 Year Old Broody Silver Sebright Hen w/Eggs fertilized by full-sized roo!

    Seeking opinions from chicken experts. My 7 3/4 year old Silver Sebright Bantam Hen has gone broody and is sitting on 11 of her own wee eggs in a romantic and cool place in my garden, well hidden by the Bishops Weeds. I have seen my large Barred Rock Rooster mate with her recently. He stands up...
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    8 Year Old Hen Not Eating?

    Well, I sure feel helpless. My sweet elderly hen, Esther Mary, who is 8 years old, isn't feeling well. Last night when I came home she was not in the coop with the other girls, and it rained all night. This morning I got up early and found her standing near a shed. Her feathers were dry, but she...
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    Could my hen have a punctured intestine?

    What might the symptoms be? I just read that if a draining goes wrong, a hen's intestine could be punctured...
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    What Can Go Wrong When a Hen Is Drained?

    My hen is about 3 or 4, and last May she was acting sluggish. I took her to the doctor and he gave her a hormone implant and she immediately perked up. I took her for a second one in late September, at which time she seemed just fine. Recently I noticed she was looking fatter than usual, and...
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    Why Do You Think Vet Called for a Second Hormone Injection?

    My Red Sex Link hen, "Henny-Honey," went to see her vet today. He couldn't feel any more fluid build-up in her abdomen, amazinly! Last May she had had significant fluid build-up from internal egg laying, with respiratory distress from the fluid pressing on her lungs and heart, but now her...
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    Could a Rowdy Rooster Break a Hen's Egg Insider Her During Mating?

    Do you think a rooster mating with a hen at a critical time could cause her egg to break inside her? I wonder about my rowdy rooster. Say, if he tried to mate her over a brick or something with an egg inside her? Has anyone ever heard of this happening?
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    Would a Hormone Injection Help?

    My hen who is about 3 and lays green eggs had eggish-looking stuff on her bottom when I let her out of the coop this morning. This afternoon I found her trying to lay an egg, but nothing was happening. I decided to give her a bath to remove the gunk off her behind. I couldn't feel an egg...
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    Hens' Bottoms Going Up and Down?

    We are in a heat wave. It was 105 F here yesterday, setting a record. My 7 year old hen is such an awesome layer, laying in 100 degree heat with no problem, but yesterday she seemed to have trouble laying. She would go to the nesting box and seemingly try, with no results, then head to the...
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    Chicken Mister Hose Problems

    I'm having a lot of trouble setting up misters for the chickens. What makes a hose blow? I had a heavy duty hose attached to one mister yesterday, and it blew out 2 times. Fixed it with a clamp end, only to have it blow out again. Ditto with the lighter-weight hoses. Attached two to a different...
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    Ever Have A Rooster with Cancer of the Testes?

    My soon-to-be 6-year-old rooster (God willing) is losing so many feathers. They look chewed on and broken, and I suspect depluming feather mites. He's had 2 Ivermectin shots recently. I hadn't found any actual feathers in the coop until a few days ago, but there are some. They are very ratty...
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    Which Dip is Best for Depluming Feather Mite Riddance?

    My 6 year old rooster has bare spots with broken and chewed feathers. I'm pretty sure it's depluming feather mites at work. I've taken him to the vet for 2 Ivermectin shots, but I'm not convinced it's working. It may be he has to be bathed in Ivermectin Dip in order to be rid of these nasty...
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    Could My Hen Be Jealous?!

    It does seem I might be in need of a Chicken Psychologist? This sweet gal, "Earzz," has developed a habit recently of running over to "General Tsaoh" and "Shiny Penny," and attacking them both when they are in the process of mating. At first, I thought she was standing up for her sister and...
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    Rooster Losing Feathers?

    My 5 year old rooster went through a very hard molt last fall, that lasted quite a while. I took him to the vet, who thought his feathers were growing back in okay and could not detect a disease process at that time. Most of them did grow back in okay, but his left wing had 5 quills showing...
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    Would You Do It?

    If a hormone treatment could extend your life 6 months, would you take it, if summer were coming on and you envisioned long days of relaxing in the garden and eating watermelon, and, if, without it, you would probably die in 2 weeks? But no guarantees it would prolong your life that long? I...
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    Lupron Hormone Injection for Ascites?

    Has anyone had success in treating a 3 year old hen who has ascites with hormone injections? If so, how long did she live after the treatment, and how many treatments total did your hen have? Was the hormone you used Lupron injections, or did you do the Deslorelin implants? What breeds of...
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    Moving a Hen from Warmth Inside People House to Cold in Chicken Coop?

    A hen had blood squirting out of her vent on Saturday and appeared to have a vent prolapse. The egg she had laid earlier had no blood on it. I took her in the very warm house (75 degrees?) and treated her vent with a warm Epsom salt bath, Neosporin, and Preparation H. The prolapse immediately...
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    Could a Hard Molt Cause Head Shaking?

    Could a hard molt cause a 5-year-old rooster to shake his head a lot? I was wondering whether feathers growing in on his head might irritate him enough to cause him to shake his head a lot?
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    Rooster has me worried....

    My precious rooster, who turns 5 on Monday, God willing, has me worried. He has been shaking his head A LOT, sometimes scratching at his ear with his foot, and opening and closing his beak more than usual. This summer I had a problem with mites, but I think I got rid of them. He is feisty, and I...
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