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This is just my personal recommendation to all chicken keepers out there who may have unwell chickens, my advice is to try feeding them sunflower seeds. Or as I've been doing - roasted sunflower seeds! Last March / April two of my oldest chickens Dot and Nelly 6 + 5 stopped laying, Nelly...

You know, this was a long time ago now, I'm having difficulty remembering the details. It may have been Mareks disease, three of the chickens died within months of each other, we had two put down by the vet, including the one who lost use of one leg (which was more than likely Mareks) Ideally...

Hello, just an update on this if anyone is interested, Tylan in the water was not working so vet gave us Baytril to use for 6 days. Right now, it seems to have worked, the breathing isn't noticeable at all, seems to have gone completely which I'm so thrilled about. Vet thinks it was a lung...

It's only something I've noticed in the last 4 weeks, and it bothers me slightly so any ideas, or anyone that says it's nothing to worry about would be gratefully received. One of my chickens breathing is noticeable just below her face / neck, it's mainly when she sits you can see it, I don't...

So in the UK we have a large pet superstore called Pets At Home, they sell oyster shell for chickens in a small brown bag - am I the only one who thinks it's WAY too large for chickens to eat?? I know I can crush it smaller myself, but why should I need to? Surely Pets At Home need to produce...

You may have made the right decision... At least she's eating and drinking, Bellina had stopped eating and was hiding away a lot of the time... We couldn't face losing another chicken so soon so we opted for her to have the operation - plus, Bellina was an amazingly strong chicken, we had a lot...

Sadly, Bellina died last week, she did recover from her operation but over September she started to hide away, eat very little and had no life in her, I'd like to think the operation wasn't part of her downfall, she was good for a month or two since she had it in July. We tried lots of medicine...

When giving chicken medicine by syringe how do you know if it's gone down the right way? What's the correct way of doing it? Very worried it could go in lung...is this possible?

Used Vermex a few months ago, herbal remedy pellets, although there's no guarantee they actually ate them all... Would you recommend something else? No worms have been noticed in their poo. Yes three years old, problems have only really started in the last few months, but as I said, one is...

Four chickens, all 3 years old, one is ok, the other three are a worry...one started to moult, lost a lot of feathers then lost use of one leg, is hopping a lot now but is able to move other leg and stand on it, and feathers are growing back. The second had egg peritonitis and had an operation...

So one of our Warren birds has a pendulous crop, feels like a water balloon and you can still feel some seeds inside. Some of you may know about making the chicken sick by turning them upside down, I was very wary of doing this with my mother but we thought it would help clear what was there and...

I wanted to share our recent experience with Bellina, we were unaware she had Egg Peritonitis until we took her to the vet, she had been quiet and not eating for some days. He took a scan of her stomach and it showed lots of liquid. His first reaction was to put her down but we really didn't...