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Her abdomen is majorly bloated with water, and it's almost translucently full. I don't have the stuff to drain her.....

It's been getting worse and worse these past few weeks. Originally I thought she was egg bound, and gave her a bath, but it did no good (and egg binding doesn't survive this long). I thought it was egg peritonitis, and maybe it is, but my treating it isn't doing any good. This is a video of...

Her droppings are dark green and white, in case that makes any difference.

Thanks so much. She didn't have any wounds, ,so it must just have been the droppings on her feathers...ugh. Eggatha seems to be eating fairly normally and she's alert, which I'm very thankful for. Is it just us, or are the white leghorns more prone to disease than others?

Aaaaand another post. My title pretty much describes what's going on. This is the second bout of sickness for this hen. Last time (couple months ago) she had parasites internally, and she seemed to recover from that. But today we found a wound on her lower abdomen full of maggots. I removed as...

Hi y'all, I know this post is probably super redundant. I've read several similar threads already, but I wanted to get a direct answer on some of this. One of our chickens (Probably 3 years old?) has a swollen abdomen. She walks odd, like her legs are spread farther apart than usual because...

yes, they free range in a medium-large pen. It's pretty well torn up, but maybe she got into something. I didn't think to give her charcoal until it was too late. :( thanks so much for the info!

She still has this problem, and now her poor feet are twisting and bending. Poor thing. It might be staphylococcic arthritis-- at least that's what I'm treating her for now. Hopefully she improves.

We have a small flock of ducks, less than a year old, and this morning we found one of them sitting in the yard, not walking around with the others. She was very sluggish, wasn't eating, wasn't eliminating, and if you put your ear really close to her nostrils she was snuffling a little bit. We...

Thank you so much for the help! I'll look into this.

Thank you so much, everyone! This site has been such a great resource already.

Thanks so much for the help! Here's pictures.

I'm Trouveur-- the folk singing, yodeling, whistling farmer. I've got got a medium sized flock of chickens, from Jersey Giants to Buff Orpingtons. We've had our fair share of chicken illnesses, and I'm passionate about learning how to treat them naturally without chemicals or drugs. Pleased...

For a while now one of our Jersey Giants, Helga, has had a great deal of trouble walking-- she hobbles as she would if she had arthritis (for all I know, she might-- I know that breed is rather prone to knee/hip injuries because of their weight). If we call the flock for food, she will break...