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Chewie has been acting depressed for a week. I have tried to get her into a vet, but the ones that will see chickens are booked. She’s lethargic and skinny (her breastbone is very prominent and she is extremely light compared to her sister). She drinks(though not excessively), and will pick at...

I have a Red Star with a bacterial infection. What is the dosage of oral amoxicillin? mL/lb ??

I have just a few chickens left from my original flock. They are all 8 years old and there are 6 of them. They still look healthy and love to get free range time, except a few of them are feeling skinny to me. They never touch their layer pellets anymore, and have been loving getting into my...

Thank you! I know they are still young, but they all should all be pullets that I ordered from MPC… some of their combs were looking kind of big to me though. I still have my fingers crossed they didn’t make a mistake and give a cockerel. 🙏

There is a blue egger, and two Cochin bantams.

My babies from MPC came today! I ordered 1 bantam barred rock, 2 bantam assortment, and 1 green/blue egg layer assortment. I know the black one without feathered feet is the barred rock. I’m guessing one of the feathered feet ones is a mottled Cochin. Or they both are? The one with feathered...

A few weeks ago I saw my duck was limping. I checked her over no swelling, cut or bumble foot. She wasn’t moving around as much, but still ate and drank so i decided to keep and eye on her. A couple days after I noticed she didn’t look great. I picked her up and saw she was covered in maggots...

Tractor supply looked it up and it’s on back order for every store. Even trying to google a store for it yields no results. The local vet sells it for $80. What happened to it being sold in stores?

I lost another chicken Friday. The lab results came back yesterday from Pirate and she had a lot of enterococcus and escherichia coli in her intestines.

Actually, i’m glad you pointed this out. I may have not read into this as much before because I’ve never had a chicken die around this time so suddenly.

On Sunday, my youngest hen Pirate seemed off. I brought her in, overnight she went downhill and died. The rest of the flock isn’t doing great. They are all 5-7 years old. They haven’t touched their food(Dumor Layer) since Monday. I filled it to the top and they haven’t eaten it. They’ve eaten...

Spent $150 on an autopsy plus whatever the fecal sample cost and learned nothing. The results were inconclusive. Not respiratory. Said Pirate was jaundiced and prolly sick for a while. They are sending cultures to the lab to see if it was digestive. The poop sample revealed nothing. I feel like...

Thank you.

Thank you. Maybe I’m paranoid but one of my hens, Raven, seems off now too. She was sleeping in the nesting box. I brought her inside. She’s perky, but also doesn’t seem perky enough. She’s also excessively drinking water. Her crop is full. Doesn’t feel watery. I hope I am just reading too much...

Thanks for your reply. She went downhill very fast. She seemed fine yesterday, ate mealworms but didn’t come out to free range. Her not coming out was concerning. I brought her inside to be safe. She was still perky. Drinking excessive water though. Her crop was full of food. She really didn’t...

You described how my chicken died. She died in a day though. Was fine yesterday, ate mealworms but didn’t come out to free range. I brought her inside to be safe. She was still perky. Drinking excessive water though. Her crop was full of food. The next morning she went downhill. Not perky at...

This is one of my favorite hens, Pirate. She is three years old. My youngest one since the rest of the flock is all seven years for the most part. This morning I found her roosting in the coop. She didn’t come out even when I shook mealworms. When I showed her mealworms she ate them though...