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I have a 6 year old Barred Rock who is walking on very bent legs.She looks great, is eating tons of scrambled eggs, had greenish solid poop today, but won't stand. I contacted an avian vet who said she could have a egg high up in the oviduct. But I read another article that said if you checked...

Thanks Chicken Obsessed for replying! I am willing to wait and see for a little bit but probably will try and find new homes for the silkie roos. They are nice little birds and love to be held and stroked but I cannot endanger my littlest hen with their shenanigans!

I have 19 total chickens - 7 big hens and 12 silkies - 5 of which are roosters. One rooster is big and beautiful and he is really the leader. He is protective and nice with the little silkie hens. The other 4 silkie roosters can be aggressive. I caught 3 of the 4 silkie roosters after my...

>Unless my math is wrong, it looks like it's in the correct range. -Kathy Thanks so much for posting a copy of the label. After many calculations, I finally came to the conclusion that a dose of 682,500 Units every 8-12 hours would be the recommended dose per the label and she is getting...

My vet didn't have any Nystatin but he called some into the pharmacy and I picked it up and started it last night. It is Nystatin suspension 100,000 units per ml and he has me giving her 6cc's twice a day. I approx. her weight at about 6 lbs. Does this sound right?

I have a 5 year old Buff Orpington named Blondie that has lost a lot of weight and is weak. She has a whitish-yellow discharge from her vent and some yellow sores - these symptoms fit the description for vent gleet. I have read all about treatments for vent gleet - Epson salts (tried this...

I have a 5 year old Buff Orpington named Blondie that has lost a lot of weight and is weak. She has a whitish-yellow discharge from her vent and some yellow sores - these symptoms fit the description for vent gleet. I have read all about treatments for vent gleet - Epson salts (tried this...

Thank you for replying. I'll try this!

I have two Silkie hens and 8 large hens (Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Sex-linked) - one of my Silkies went broody several weeks ago and I got 4 fertilized Silkie eggs from a neighbor and 4 chicks hatched a week ago. The Silkie Mom and chicks are in a separate pen from the others. Somehow, the...

I have a Buff Orpington and the last two times she has gone broody I have let her sit on unfertilized eggs (no Rooster) for about 20 days and then traded the eggs for chicks. It has gone splendidly both times. I wait until it is about dark and then I switch them out. My hen has been in a...

It did take me several attempts over several days to move her to where I wanted her. Since she was sitting on unfertilized eggs, it didn't matter it they got cold. (I provided her with already hatched pullets on day 20!) She sat on the eggs under a cardboard box in a separate area of the coop...

I separated my broody hen and her eggs from the others. When the chicks were about 10 days old, I put the other 4 hens in a separate area and let the Mom and her chicks run around the bigger fenced in area. The Mama Hen and one of the other hens tried to fight through the chicken wire because...

I would move her because she'll need to be by herself when the chicks start hatching. I've had to move my broody buff orpington on many occasions - I don't have a rooster and in the past when I've "borrowed" fertilized eggs, I've wound up with mostly roosters. This year I sacrificed two regular...

Thanks to everyone who replied. I will ask my vet about the Lupron. I've had chickens for 4 years but wonder if I'm not doing something right. Aside from dusting for lice every now and again, am I supposed to give antibiotics periodically to prevent something? I never can figure out why it...

I just lost a white leghorn chicken to egg yolk peritonitis. The night before she died, her comb was very purple, and there was something stuck in her vent. I was able to pull some of it out but it kept breaking off (I thought it was a disintegrating egg) and ended up trying to digitally remove...

Thanks for the ideas. I do have some BlueKote and I also have some Desitin. I might try Desitin for night-time and then spray her with the BlueKote.

My 8 lb. 3 year old barred rock hen was attacked by a fox 15 days ago. She had numeous wounds and lost a ton of feathers. I'm washing the wounds once a day and applying bacitracin - all attempts to cover the wounds failed because she wound rip them right off! I noticed a very red area under...