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  1. TheChips

    Seeking Help: Hen lost weight, drooping wings please read

    I do not know if she is still laying. Sometimes her sister likes to break open the eggs and eat them. Her vent is yellow and has a comb look to it I can take a photo today. I cant bring her inside because I have an elderly cat with sensitive skin and allergies. I can put her in the...
  2. TheChips

    Seeking Help: Hen lost weight, drooping wings please read

    Bump
  3. TheChips

    ISA-Brown page. :)))))))

    I need some Isa Brown medical help I have posted to the emergencies page as well hoping i can get a response https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1082874/seeking-help-hen-lost-weight-drooping-wings-please-read
  4. TheChips

    Seeking Help: Hen lost weight, drooping wings please read

    Also just to add she has been breathing fine. She has no respiratory symptoms. I have 12 other chickens they are just fine. i originally thought because we had one reallllly hot week before winter so she plucked out her feathers and grew in a thinner coat. Then the week after that it was cold...
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    Seeking Help: Hen lost weight, drooping wings please read

    Hello there So within the last few weeks I have noticed my top hen has been fluffed up, walking around slow, being selective with what she eats. She has lost a lot of weight. Ive tried giving her worm treats to help the weight back on and corn. Ive been giving her electrolytes in the water...
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    Hen with Swollen Crown

    I live in Michigan, the weather has been very up and down 2 days ago it was 38 degrees at night, tonight its about 55 degrees. I have not had any other people reporting and illiness' within their flock. She hasnt shown any other symptoms from this.
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    Hen with Swollen Crown

    Hello there I have a hen with a swollen crown, shes been eating and drinking normal. Could this be due to a possible tick or spider bite? Ive read on here that if I give her a dose of Childrens Benedryl itll help the swelling go down. Any advice is appreciated thanks!
  8. TheChips

    Feather Loss?

    Maybe theyre trying to bother her while shes sitting on eggs. They do pluck their own feathers to keep the eggs warm but thats only under the hen. She will pluck under her to make her skin exposed because direct body heat will keep her eggs warmer. I have two americauna hens. Sisters...One...
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    Emergency - please help - Hen having trouble breathing

    ^thank you Bumping this thread.under her shes really swollen and red. It feels hard. So not only is her crop full but under her is swollen too. Any help please? Thanks in advance. She wants to walk around but i dont want her eating stuff to make her any fuller. Ive been giving her yogert and...
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    Feather Loss?

    Do you have other hens in your coop? They could be plucking them out.
  11. TheChips

    Emergency - please help - Hen having trouble breathing

    Yesterday I noticed my hen walking around slow and sluggish. I then realized her crop is full and there is a fowl smell coming out of her mouth. i gave her a little bit of olive oil to help her throw up, she did a little bit but not much came out. I put her in the coop for the day with...
  12. TheChips

    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Hello! I have not had much luck in rehomeing some of my chickens. Do any of you know of a place who takes unwanted roosters and hens that is more of a "no kill" environment. Id really like to rehome some of my chickens to a place where they will be treated as pets and just used for their eggs...
  13. TheChips

    Beautiful Bantom Cochin Mama Hen & Chick West Michigan - raven back color

    Thats good to know thanks! The mama hens mama is fluffier than her. :)
  14. TheChips

    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I hope this is the appropriate place to post. I also posted this in the sell/buy/trade forums. https://post.craigslist.org/manage/5139926095/7ihgh I have 2 beautiful black bantom cochins that are needing a new home. Its a mama hen with her almost full grown chick.
  15. TheChips

    Beautiful Bantom Cochin Mama Hen & Chick West Michigan - raven back color

    Beautiful Bantom Cochins Mama hen with her baby chick These two beautiful chickens need a new home. The mother hen is a year old, her chick is almost adult size. They cannot be sold separately Im selling them as a pair for $20 or best offer. I can consider shipping them out. If theyre...
  16. TheChips

    Please help me figure out whats wrong w my Isa hen

    Also her crop is empty
  17. TheChips

    ISA-Brown page. :)))))))

    Needing help with my Isa Brown hen. I need your help on what to do and what this might be. She has been lethargic most of the day only wanting to stand in 1 position. Her bottom is all messy as if she has diarrhea. She is flexing her rectum a lot. Her tail is a little droopy. I tried to...
  18. TheChips

    Please help me figure out whats wrong w my Isa hen

    bump anyone?
  19. TheChips

    Please help me figure out whats wrong w my Isa hen

    I need your help on what to do and what this might be. She has been lethargic most of the day only wanting to stand in 1 position. Her bottom is all messy as if she has diarrhea. She is flexing her rectum a lot. Her tail is a little droopy. I tried to give her an orange which is her...
  20. TheChips

    Chick with broken neck. Can mama hen break bones?

    I had checked on them a few hours before and everything was okay. I feel pretty bad about this. I should have brought them inside this week.
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