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I just wanted to say thank you for all the helpful advice and kind words. My little RIR Maggie passed away late last night... just too much for her little body. I'm pretty sure it was Marek's... if my other chickens have been infected how long will it be before I see any symptoms. I am...

I'm pretty new to this site... and pretty new to chicken raising... but I too have a sick chicken so I have been doing a lot of research. There are some very smart nice people on this site... so if you can give more information that would be helpful to all. Is you chicken wheezing? Drinking...

okay... I went to the feed store today and purchased every possible different kind of remedy I could find... Epsom salts (someone recommended it for botulism) tylan...and some chicken specific vitamin electrolyte mix. Now I am wondering what I should do first... The Epsom salt... should it be...

Oh my that looks horrible... great job by the way... I love a person that rescues sick animals... I don't have any advice, but there are some really knowledgeable people on here... so hopefully this will help bump you up so more people take notice of your post. Good luck!

any suggestions for food... I have given her honey water/ molasses water... tried some yogurt... but she really does not want to eat or drink?

just checked on her this morning and she looks worse... her head is hung low and she has no interest in food or water at all... I have to push the water way into her crop... she doesn't even swallow. She is laying with one leg out in-front of her now... I think this is really bad!

wow... thank you so much... here are the answers to the questions asked; The hen is not thin, she is pretty plum. She is fed scratch grain/layers feed also gets some grass clippings (however we have stopped this as we suspect it could be the culprit) as well as some food...

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Hello I am new to this site and new to raising chickens. We have a flock of 5 hens... and yesterday we noticed our RI red was laying around a lot and when she moved she had a limp. We figured she had hurt her leg, but upon examination we could not find any evidence of her foot/leg/hip being...

Hello, I am very new to this forum...and new to raising chickens as well. My family and I have 5 hens that are about 7 months old. They have all been very healthy... until two days ago we noticed our little RI red Maggie limping a little. We checked her leg and there was no evidence of...