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    Help! sick/lame goose!

    Hi there, I just had my Cochin hen not be able to walk on her left leg (called lameness by vet). I thought for sure she had a fracture. Upon taking her to the vet and having an x-ray, there were no fractures but a large egg that may have been pressing on her sciatic nerve or other nerves and...
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    Will a chihuahua kill a chicken?

    Quote: I have smaller dogs too and the smallest of the two pekingese dogs seems to salivate the most when I'm holding a chicken. She stands up on her back legs as if reaching for a taste. I agree small dogs think they are big and have big appetites. Better safe than sorry. Instincts of the wolves.
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    re-introducing injured hen to flock

    Well I too have an injured hen that I am trying to figure out how to introduce her back into her group. She, Fajita the RIR, used to be the top hen in the pecking order of three but now that she's been isolated since early December 2010 and it's now Feb 2011. I've tried letting her scratch...
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    Hen has fractured leg. Surgery or let it heal?

    Thanks everyone for your replies. It's been two weeks since we found a vet who performed the surgery. He put a pin in her leg and she is doing well now. She'll be inside in a large shipping box for four three more weeks until the pin comes out. We didnt end up Going to the $1k vet but another...
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    Hen has fractured leg. Surgery or let it heal?

    Thanks! You've given my husband and I hope that we can go with the splint method and see how it goes. Wish us luck and I will try to post about how it's going. She's the top hen in the pecking order so I am thinking i will want to keep her inside the house, but for how long? I'm afraid with...
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    Hen has fractured leg. Surgery or let it heal?

    I took my 2 year old RIR to the vet today because she has been hoping on one leg for a few days. Turns out it's fractured and the vet referred me to a specialist who wants to do the surgery immediately for a potential cost of $1,000. The vet said that we can't be sure if it will heal or if it...
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    Squatting when I pet her, is this normal hen behavior?

    My younger chickens (laying now) squat down and stick out their elbows a little bit when I pet them. I think they are scared, it's kind of funny. It's an improvement from when they would squack a run away when i'd put my hand out toward them. It also helps when I need to pick them up, it's...
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    Is this a tumor?

    Hi- Not sure if you resolved your chicken's tumor issue, but I took my hen in and the vet checked a tumor below her eye-she lacerated it and tried to cut it off but it was too vascular, we decided not to get it cut off and tested because the vet said that if it was merricks or another bad virus...
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    Hi from Washington State, Kirkland-Bothell area!

    I have three chickens (Plymouth Barred Rock "Gordita", Rhode Island Red "Chalupa" , and a Partridge Rock"Fajita" - hence the user name-MexiChicks. I'm a vegetarian so I never will make my chickens into the mexican dishes they are named after-plus they aren't meat birds anyway. I'm brand new to...
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