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    Busted open crop leaking contents!?

    Has anyone ever had.heard of a crop busting open? I have a hen that came here with a rather large 'bust'. After doing some Googling, I determined that maybe she had an impacted crop. So we started giving her bread soaked in olive oil and massaging her crop. This morning we found her with a clump...
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    Worm Help

    Thank you Michael. So just medicine one day on the square of bread and then medicine one day 10 days later? That sounds easy enough.
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    Worm Help

    Hi there fellow chicken lovers! Tonight my son noticed a white stringy looking thing in someone's poo....I googled it and it looks like Roundworm. Seems fairly common. What is the best medicine (prefer something I don't have to stick down their throat as I'm very new to this!) I'm going to...
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    Hen has tail down and just sitting around..thought she was broody but IDK.....

    And also she is making sort of a gurgling sound when she exhales. Not when she inhales though.
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    Well, I ended up putting her down yesterday. She just was not getting any better and it got to the point where she couldn't even shift her position. I'd love to know what it was but a necropsy is >250.00. Such a shame since other than not being able to move her legs she was fine, not acting...
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    Hen has tail down and just sitting around..thought she was broody but IDK.....

    Hello all! I picked up a gold laced wy. and a buff about 12 days ago. They integrated into the coop well and in the first few days, they both gave us eggs. Both seemed very healthy and happy. Then the Wy. stopped laying and I noticed her sitting in her nesting box (which was just temporary...a...
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    Thought chicken was broody but now I think she might be sick

    Ok, I checked and she is missing some feathers at her breast. Green poop and very smelly. The sound is when she exhales if that helps.I completely took the nest box out so nothing for her to run to. There is a random egg in the coop that she has not sat on. Now neither of my mature hens are...
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    Thought chicken was broody but now I think she might be sick

    We picked up a mature Gold Laced Wyandotte last week. She laid an egg the next day and possibly the day after that (maybe have been another hens...not sure). Since then she had been mostly in the nesting box sitting on the egg. At one point there was another egg, again not sure if it was hers or...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    I read this: Some birds develop temporary paralysis that disappears after 1-2 days. They appear to return to normal, but frequently die from internal tumors a short time later Am I just prolonging the inevitable? It's been 4 days that she has been not able to move her legs but 8 days since I...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    Thank you....I will run and get the Polyvisol today. I'm giving them eggshells....is that considered 'grit'? How much is a necropsy? As for the little one....I am aware it may very well have been my fault...maybe I drowned it giving it too much water? It was just a dropper but strange that it...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    I'm so distraught. The mentioned hen is still hanging on, no worse and no better. But I went into the coop this morning and the littlest hen, about 6 weeks, is just lying there and she is typically very active. So I pick her up and she doesn't even open her eyes. I put her back down and she is...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    Thank you SO much for this advice. I did give her some cooked egg today and she gobbled it up. I had been feeding all of the chickens the same thing: Purina crumbles, eggshells, oats, seeds and nuts and veggies/fruit. I've not seen her drink. I bring her water to her several times a day but she...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    That you all for your advice. She is still alert and eating very well. I took her away from the coop today and cleaned her behind, her vent was clear but she did have some poop on her feathers. I was touching her legs and moving them very gently and I can tell that she can still feel her legs so...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    Where do I buy vaccinations to do it myself?
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    Basically just some lady but very well-known on our local chicken group.
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    I did not vaccinate them. I should also say that this hen is one of 3 RIR that were all the same age (about 4 months) that I bought from a lady here in town. Within 2 days of bringing the hens home, I found one of them behind the nesting box with it's neck all twisted to the back of it's body...
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    Doesn't seem to be heavier.
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    Hen can't walk.... why?

    A few days ago I went in the coop and I noticed my one 5 month old RIR ever so slightly limping. Over the next few days it had gotten worse to where she would take a few steps and have to lie down and rest to now she can't use her legs at all and her feet are kind of curled up. She has a good...
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