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    Chicken with broken wing and broken leg - need to splint

    "Chirpy" our hen that got attacked by the fox is doing very well. She will stand for short periods of time, not sure still if I am supposed to splint the leg? Yesterday I took her out to an area where they all like to dust while the chickens were out and put her down. The rooster came over to...
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    Chicken with broken wing and broken leg - need to splint

    Chicken was attacked by a fox. Our dogs responded quickly and the fox dropped the chicken or failed at the attempt all together. Chicken was left with what appears to be a broken wing and leg. She is eating and drinking fine and we have her separated from the others but within the same pen. When...
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    what's causing chickens to stop laying??

    We have four chickens now and two guineas. The guineas are laying fine. The chickens however are not.. the weather is pretty mild here in SC. We have had a couple low 30's nights but now it's low 50's highs in the high 70's and lower 80's. All the chickens were on tetracycline for 5 days and...
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    Respiratory Illness in RI Red?? Need Help....

    Our sick RIR died after 5 days of administering Tetracycline in water (after not seeing improvement switched to injectable Tylan-50). We made it through 2 doses of that but she continued to get worse and worse finally ended in death. Bad situation. Hopefully the remaining members of our flock...
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    Respiratory Illness in RI Red?? Need Help....

    If a chicken with a respiratory illness will always be a carrier do I need to just get rid of her? Since we will be getting new little chicks soon? I do not typically think of animals as disposable but would hate to end up losing all of them because I was too sympathetic to make a difficult choice??
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    Respiratory Illness in RI Red?? Need Help....

    I have a RI Red who was coughing or sneezing for about a week. I went online, looked around, and learned that I could give antibiotics to the chickens. I have all of them on Tetracycline, yesterday was the last day-day 5. The only reason I opted to put all on it was because one of our inherited...
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