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My hens are relatively self sufficient. I feel bad for not catching this sooner but we snagged a couple gals to put into a chicken tractor to do some tilling. When we were carrying one over we noticed she smelled terrible - like rotten terrible. So I turned her over and she has yellow crust/ooze...

Is it okay to worm my hens for the first time with fenbendazole? I know they have worms because I have found roundworms in their poop. I do not want to create a toxic worm overload however. I have fendendazole and wazine both on-hand but I've read it's recommended to worm with Valbazen first and...

I have had a rash of unexpected deaths in my young flock of chickens. I have lost three this spring and found one this morning sitting on the perch with her eyes closed when everyone else was up and at 'em. I don't remember having any special chicken management practices from when we had...

So I posted a month ago about a hen I had who was off one leg. I initially thought bumble foot and kept her isolated, quiet, administer penicillin, etc. Then she got overall weaker on the other leg and stopped supporting her weight. This took about a month to happen. She is still eating and...

Thanks in advance for reading this and for any advice offered up. I have a year old pullet (my only double-yolk layer) who came up lame a couple weeks ago. I palpated her leg from foot to hip and could not find any area of tenderness or deformity. I put her in a carrier and gave her vitamins in...

I have a barred rock hen (older) who is molting like no other this season (my girlfriend has been calling her Hell Raiser if that gives a picture of how thoroughly she molted). Unfortunately for her the dumping of all her feathers coincided with serious rain/wind storms. I noticed her shivering...

My chicken flock began with a hand-me-down flock of older laying hens my neighbor gave me. If I could do it all over again I would definitely start differently but, if nothing else, it has given me ample opportunities to learn about chicken husbandry. We lost one of those gals a few months after...

I have a rooster who is about 4 months old. About one month ago he started exhibiting symptoms I worried could be Marek's. He would walk with a very awkward step, over-exaggerating his movements. I isolated him from the rest of the flock and he quickly deteriorated. He went lame with one leg...

I posted a couple weeks ago about a 3mo old pullet (maybe rooster...) that had one-sided paralysis. I was thinking she was circling the drain but she has since improved greatly and has gotten some use back from her leg. Her symptoms, at their worst, was a splayed out right leg that she could not...

I have a little flock of approx. 2 month old chickens who have been mostly free-ranged since they got feathers in. I noticed one of them keeping her (his? looks like she may be turning into a he) mouth open a bit. She's not shaking her head or gasping but she does keep her beak slightly open...

I have made a bunch of mistakes in learning how to best care for my chickens. I am trying to lay the groundwork for a healthy flock of hens. I have a mixed bag of girls, some are ancient hand-me-downs from my neighbor. Some of prime laying age hens. And we have a 2-5 month old gals that make up...

We ended up with a "special" guinea chick that was a reject from the feed store. I actually didn't even know it was a guinea until recently. Originally, she could not walk at all and was stuck laying on her side. She would flail her feet, trying to right herself but would just run in the air. If...

I accidentally became the proud owner of a 2-week old Cornish X that has some leg trouble. What happens if you don't butcher these birds? Do they get to a point where they can't walk? I am astonished at how fast she is growing. It's almost gross actually.

I posted recently about three chicks I have who are all off their legs. But, I wanted to ask a different question about one specifically. This little seems like she is probably 1-2 weeks old and seems very large, like her gullet and abdomen are distended. It is not hard but mushy feeling. I...

My girlfriend works at the local feed store and came home with three ill chicks today. We don't expect them to survive but wanted to see if we could help at least one live. The trouble is they all seem to have different problems. Chick #1 - the oldest, has some real feathers in. She seems to...

I currently have 20 birds in my coop (14 hens, 1 Bantam rooster, 1 turkey, 2 ducks w/ 2 ducklings in tow). Four of my hens seem to either have better things to do than lay eggs or are just aged out. I'd like to get 6(ish) more young hens to make up for the drop in egg production. I have a 24x20...

We have a turkey hen we got as a chick to keep our duckling company. She wouldnt leave us alone when she was a little guy. She wanted to be on your lap or would follow us around. Well, now she's big and very unpleasant. She gets riled up when you go in the coop and is starting to attack us. A...

I have a newish hen that has had a runny nose and sneeze since about one week after I got her (over a month ago now). I have her isolated and have medicated her with two rounds of sulmet. In-between I dosed her with a few doses of baytril. Each medication has lasted 3 days and I have waited a...

11 days ago a hen relatively new to my flock had a runny nose and raspy breathing. I quarantined her and gave her sulmet in her water for two days. It took a couple days for her breathing to get back to normal and now she only has a slight amount of dampness in her nostrils. a few days after I...

I have two young (couple month old) Muscovy Ducks that I got from a large flock a couple weeks ago. They were thin when I got them and have since put in good weight and grown considerably. This weekend I noticed one struggling to walk. I dewormed them after I read a worm infestation can cause...