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    I need help identifying a disease is it poison or Mareks.

    I am worried about a wild Gallus gallus hen. She has started to be sick like at least 6 other hens and one rooster and it always ends the same. Dropped wings, twisting of neck, paralysis and eventually an inability to breathe. One dead chicken was taken to the vet for an autopsy, but she...
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    Reconnecting after many years

    I am an expat who first kept hens in Nigeria in the 70s. Now I live in the South Pacific and I started keeping hens again in 2008. My hens are varied in terms of whether they are "mine." I have wild Gallus gallus roaming in my garden and next door in the bush (undeveloped property), then I have...
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    Lame then gasping followed by death

    Hi My free range chickens are being decimated by a disease that starts with a leg going lame, followed by a general malaise and an inability to walk, culminating in them not eating and gasping for air before they die. The disease is slow to spread as out of 60 free range hens only 4 have had...
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    New member from South Pacific

    Hi, I live on a tropical island and have two sets of hens. The one group are island mixed hens who are free range and who give me very few eggs. The other group are from New Zealand and are Hylines they give me an egg a day. I would love to hear from other people about their hens. I have...
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